instachatbot 0.4

Simple framework for building Instagram chat bots with menu driven interface

instachatbot

Simple framework for building Instagram chat bots with menu driven interface

Installation

pip3 install instachatbot

To install development version:

pip3 install git+https://github.com/art-vasilyev/instachatbot.git

How to use

Create sample script main.py:

from instachatbot.bot import InstagramChatBot
from instachatbot.nodes import (
    MenuNode, MenuItem, MessageNode, QuestionnaireNode, NotifyAdminNode)

menu = MenuNode(
    '💡Choose menu:\n',
    [
        MenuItem(
            'text message',
            MessageNode('This is a message😀')),
        MenuItem(
            'questionnaire',
            QuestionnaireNode(
                [
                    'What is your favourite book? 📚',
                    'What is your favourite fruit? 🍐 🍊 🍋'
                ],
                header='Please answer the following questions',
                admin_username='<user to send results to>',
                response='Thank your for your answers')),
        MenuItem(
            'send notification to admin',
            NotifyAdminNode(
                'Thank you',
                notification='Sample notification from bot user',
                admin_username='<username to send notification to>'
            )
        ),
    ],
    error_message='Failed to select menu.'
)

chatbot = InstagramChatBot(menu=menu)
chatbot.login(
    username='<instagram-username>',
    password='<instagram-password>')
chatbot.start()

Run the script:

python3 main.py

Persistent conversation state

By default conversation state is discarded on bot restart, to make it persistent you should provide persistent storage on bot initialization:

chatbot = InstagramChatBot(menu=menu, storage=FileStorage())

Menu triggers

By default a bot sends the menu on any message it receives. If you want menu to appear only if bot receives special message, set trigger argument on bot initialization:

chatbot = InstagramChatBot(menu=menu, trigger='/menu')