MewBot

MewBot is an automation framework intended to simplify building cross-platform text/chat-bots. The design is intended to be modular with configuration separated from code, allowing users and developers to build out custom logic and behaviours with minimal coding experience.

Status

Some basic bots can be built and run, but we currently consider all parts of the framework to be unstable.

Packages and Modules

The codebase represents both the base API used to build components for the bot, as well as an implementation of the runtime to actually execute a bot. As such, it is built and published as a group of packages.

These packages are generated by some trickery in setup.py.

Each package also defines its own requirements list. Installing requirements-dev.txt will include all of these automatically.

Development

Contributions to the project are made via GitHub pull requests, which will enforce the code style and linting requirements of this project.

Setting up project for local development

The recommended way to set this project up is using python 3.10 (or higher) with a standard venv setup. The project uses a "src-dir" layout; for Python to be able to locate the modules, you will need to set up the PYTHONPATH environment variable with at least the src/ directory.

For convenience in POSIX-like systems, an importable script ./tools/path is provided that will return the appropriate path.

The following example will get you started in POSIX-like shells (sh, bash, zsh, etc.).

# Get the source code
git clone git@github.com:mewler/mewbot
cd mewbot

# Set up the virtual environment
python3 -m venv venv
printf '. ./tools/path\n' >>venv/bin/activate

# Activate the virtual environment
source venv/bin/activate

# Install all dependencies (including development dependencies)
pip install -r requirements-dev.txt

# Run a demo!
python3 -m examples examples/trivial_socket.yaml

Running the tests and linters

You can run the linters via the convenience script ./tools/lint or with python -m mewbot.tools.lint This runs the auto-formatter black, two opinionated linting tools in flake8 and pylint, and the mypy type checker in strict mode.

You can run the test framework using the convenience script ./tools/test or with python -m mewbot.tools.test. Locally this will default to running all tests in parallel for fast testing. You can add the flag --cov to enable coverage, which will output coverage information both to the terminal and store details of code coverage as webpages in coverage/.

More information on the linters and tests can be found in the contributor documentation.

CREDENTIALS WARNING

Please note.

If you use you credentials for a service with mewbot, you do so at your own risk. Some services ban accounts if they are used with bots which they determine to be harmful. This can happen at any time and without warning.

Thus we CANNOT be held responsible if you use your account credentials - whether to generate a bot token or directly - with a mewbot bot which subsequently causes your account to be banned.

This is your responsbility. Not ours.