Node Bots
JaxNode, August 2021
About Me
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What is a Bot
- Program that can monitor stream or events, and act
- Typically used to respond or notify end users
- Leverage existing APIs
Bot examples
- Twitter Bots
- Slack Bots
- Discord
- Telegram
- Chat bots
Bot Frameworks
- Microsoft Bot Framework
- MBF works with Azure
- NLP.js Framework
- 'twit' module
- Requires twitter API keys
- consumer_key, consumer_secret, access_token, access_token_secret
- Handle events on a Stream
- Post Tweets to Twitter
Slack
- Create Slack Bots
- Github app for Slack
- Build Bot with SlackBot
Discord
- Build bots for Discord
- Can use Discord.js
Hosting Bots
- Deploy to dedicated server
- Can use hosted services like Heroku if you add http listener to application
- Possibly use a process manager to keep service running like PM2, restart bot if it fails
Bot examples
- 66% tweeted links are from bots
- SPAM (Evil)
- Helper, answer questions
- Schedule messages
- Integrate with other apps
- CI/CD with Github
Non-evil Twitter
- Automated Technical help
- Automate delivery of news or price changes
- Stock information
Demo 1
- Create stock watcher
Demo 2
- JaxNode Bot
Demo 3
- Slack GitHub Bot
Demo 4
- Slack JaxNode Bot
Code examples
Questions?
Node Bots
By David Fekke
