Pokemon Showdown battle bot library

Library for Pokemon Showdown Bots to be able to participate in battles.

Installing the library

To install the library in your Pokemon Showdown bot project, use:

npm install --save @asanrom/ps-battle-bot-lib

Using the library

In order to add battle functionality to your bot, instantiate PokemonShowdownBattleBot, call receive for each line received from Pokemon Showdown, and listen for the send event in order to send decision commands.

View example

Documentation

Check the documentation for detailed specifications for configuration and available algorithms.

You can also check the auto generated documentation.

Building

In order to build this library, you need:

• NodeJS, latest stable version.

Run the following command to install dependencies:

npm install

Run the following command to build the typescript into javascript:

npm run build

Running the example

If you want to run the example, type:

npm start

You can configure the bot using environment variables.

You can specify those variables in the .env file, in the current working directory.

Server connection details

| Variable Name | Description | | ------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | SERVER_HOST | Pokemon showdown server host. Default: sim3.psim.us | | SERVER_PORT | Pokemon showdown server port. Default 443 | | SERVER_SSL | Set it to YES to use HTTPS. Set it to NO to use regular HTTP. Defaults to YES. | | SERVER_ID | Pokemon showdown server ID. Default: showdown |

Credentials

| Variable Name | Description | | ---------------- | ---------------------------------- | | ACCOUNT_NAME | Pokemon showdown account name. | | ACCOUNT_PASSWORD | Pokemon showdown account password. |

Battle bot configuration

| Variable Name | Description | | ------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | AUTO_SET_TIMER | Set it to YES for the bot to automatically set up the timer. | | ACCEPT_CHALLENGES | Set it to YES for the bot to automatically accept or reject challenges. | | CHALLENGE_WHITELIST | Specify the list of usernames the bot will accept challenges from. If not specified, the bot will accept challenges from any user. | | AUTO_LADDER | Specify a format name for the bot to search ladder battles automatically. | | AUTO_LADDER_DELAY | Milliseconds to wait in order to search for the next ladder battle. By default 10000 (10 seconds) | | MAX_BATTLES | Max number of battles the bot will consider when accepting a challenge, or searching a ladder battle. | | TEAMS_PATH | Path to the teams folder. This folder must contain sub-folder with the names of the formats, containing each one a list of teams contained in .txt files |

Logging

| Variable Name | Description | | ------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | LOG_INFO | Set to YES or NO to enable or disable info messages. Enabled by default. | | LOG_DEBUG | Set to YES or NO to enable or disable debug messages. Disabled by default. | | LOG_TRACE | Set to YES or NO to enable or disable trace messages. Disabled by default. |

Other configuration

| Variable Name | Description | | ------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | LOG_BATTLES | Set it to YES to log every single battle. Logs will be stored in the logs subfolder. | | LOGS_PATH | Path to store the battle logs. By default: logs | | ROOMS_JOIN | List of room to join on connection, spit by commas. |