Pengbot: For building robots with human manners

warning: Pengbo is currently in DESIGN

import pengbot
from pengbot.adapters.slack import SlackRobot, Mention


@pengbot.robot(adapter=SlackRobot)
def mybot(bot):
    bot.context = bot.context(
        api_token=os.environ.get('SLACK_API_TOKEN', None)
    )


@mybot.hears(Mention)
def talking_parrot(bot, message):
    yield from bot.says(':bird: %s' % message['text'] , channel=message['channel'])


if __name__ == '__main__':
    mybot()

Installation

$ pip install pengbot

Documentation

TODO

• Fuzzy string match for commands
• Commands receive message context.
• Listen all messages to trigger commands.
• Adapters for Slack, XMPP, Twitter.
• Message stream filters.
• Message stream middlewares.
• Stream response messages.
• Natural Language Processing?. http://spacy.io

Example ideas

• Auto linking for Jira Issues.
• Attach user mentions to issues as comments in Jira.
• Bots talking to bots.
• Voting and Polls.