GroupmeChatbot 3.0.0

# GroupmeChatbot [](https://pypi.org/project/GroupmeChatbot)

A Bot that responds with custom messages when mentioned in a Groupme chat

### Author

Daniel Gisolfi - All current work - [dgisolfi](https://github.com/dgisolfi)

## Groupme Bot?

A GroupMe bot can be created [here](https://dev.groupme.com/bots) and using the Groupme API can send messages to its assigned group. This particular bot uses a callback URL to be notified of new messages. Once notified the message will be parsed and a response will be created if the bot was specifically mentioned by name example: @marty how are you?.

## Usage

Once a bot is registered with Groupme the following requirements must be specified in the form of environment variables:

• BOT_NAME - Is the name of the bot that members of the group chat can refer to it by.

  Example: BOT_NAME=marty

• BOT_ID - The assigned bot ID by GroupMe.

  Example: BOT_ID=a6a7a7a7a7a7a7a7a77a7a7

• GROUP_ID - The ID of the Groupme Chat where the bot resides

  Example: GROUP_ID=0987890987

• API_TOKEN - The api token for the authorized Groupme account

  Example: API_TOKEN=983u4ritgo0v98ujkorf

After the environment variables have been set run the Flask server, python -m GroupmeChatbot

## Customization/Additions

Feature Additions/Suggestions are welcome, for any particular functionality that may need to be added for a particular use case, simple parse the incoming messages looking for specified input in the server.py file and add methods in the bot class to perform the desired function.