hubot-character

Install

$npm install --save hubot-character
# edit external-scripts.json
$cat 
[
"hubot-character"
]
# edit config.json. also see config.sample.json
rcat config.json
{
    "characters": [
        {
            "name": "smiley",
            "icon": ":smiley:",
            "respond": "smile",
            "messages": [
                "hello world {name}"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

Settings

Environment variables

• HUBOT_CHARACTER_CONFIG
  • required
  • config.json's path
• HUBOT_SLACK_TOKEN
  • required
  • your slack team's api token to reply with the character's message

config.json

{
    "characters": [
        {
            "name": "the bot name",
            "icon": "slack icon for showing the bot's icon",
            "respond": "regular expression for the bot to respond",
            "hear": "regular expression for the bot to hear",
            "messages": [
                "messages the bot will replay to you",
                "you can use the macro {name}.",
                "ex 'hello world {name}'",
                [
                    {
                        "name": "the bot name. this overrides the bot's name",
                        "icon": "the bot's icon this also overrides the bot's icon",
                        "message": "message the bot will reply to you"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "...",
                        "icon": "...",
                        "message": "this is the message too. this is posted at a time with the above message."
                    }
                ]
            ]
        }
    ]
}

If your setting is something like the below, the bot's response will be like the picture.

{
    "characters": [
        {
            "name": "smiley",
            "icon": ":smiley:",
            "respond": "smile",
            "hear": "^smile$",
            "messages": [
                "hello world {name}",
                "what's up {name}"
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "laughing",
            "icon": ":laughing:",
            "respond": "laughing",
            "messages": [
                [
                    {
                        "name": "laughing",
                        "icon": ":laughing:",
                        "message": "hello world {name}"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "innocent",
                        "icon": ":innocent:",
                        "message": "good bye {name}"
                    }
                ]
            ]
        }
    ]
}

• hubot's name is "dark" here.