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3:24 PM

ArtOfCode has added Zizouz212 to the list of this room's owners.

Zizouz212

Hi @Mnementh :)

ArtOfCode

This is a gallery room... does that make sense or is it better open?

It's probably better open, hang on. Mnementh, you'll be able to talk in a moment

Zizouz212

Let it be open. I think, it's open source :)

ArtOfCode

room mode changed to Public: anyone may enter and talk

There we are

Righty ho. I know there's another chatbot on the SE network written in Python, which is open source, and we could use as a base to start on

Let me see if I can find it..

Zizouz212

Sure :)

ProgramFOX

3:29 PM

ohai

ArtOfCode

@Zizouz212 ProgramFOX is said bot's owner

Zizouz212

hello!

ProgramFOX

If you want a bot example, you can look at one of the example files of ChatExchange, which my bot uses: github.com/Manishearth/ChatExchange/blob/master/examples/…

ArtOfCode

Ta :)

ProgramFOX

That example file is a lot cleaner and easier to read than my bot's code which is... kinda clogged up :P

Feel free to ping me whenever you have a question :)

ArtOfCode

3:32 PM

And down to work we go :)

ProgramFOX

Are you going to host it on a GitHub repo?

Well that's probably a stupid question as it's a bot for Open Source :P

ArtOfCode

@ProgramFOX definitely will do as soon as I've made sense of the code and set it up and started something

@Zizouz212 how's best to organise the development here?

Zizouz212

Sorry, I'm being viciously attacked by a 5 year old

ArtOfCode

I know the feel. Take your time :)

ArtOfCode

4:14 PM

@ProgramFOX Okay how do I set your bot up on Windows? Given that I can't run the setup.sh file?

ProgramFOX

@ArtOfCode Oh, you have to go manually through the required modules and download them and run the setup file.

let me make a list of the required ones...

ArtOfCode

oh god :)

ProgramFOX

pypi.python.org/pypi/beautifulsoup4

pypi.python.org/pypi/requests

pypi.python.org/pypi/websocket-client

^ Download those, and run python setup.py install (with Python 2!) to install them.

ArtOfCode

oh god i need python 2

ProgramFOX

yup

ArtOfCode

4:25 PM

OK this might take a while. Thanks :)

ProgramFOX

ChatExchange requires Python 2.

also don't forget to run git submodule update --init in the directory of the bot :)

ArtOfCode

Waiting to install Python 2 now

I assume I can run the git commands without it installed yet

ProgramFOX

If you have Git installed that should work.

ArtOfCode

@ProgramFOX Download the dependencies to where?

Same directory?

ProgramFOX

I've a separate folder for them, doesn't have to be in the bot's dir.

ArtOfCode

4:33 PM

Okay... now where's setup.py? XD

ProgramFOX

should be in the downloaded archive

ArtOfCode

Nope... I don't see it in your Github repo either

ProgramFOX

no it certainly isn't in the repo

let me check... which dependency?

ArtOfCode

Oh you mean the dependency's archive

I see now

ProgramFOX

yeah, that's what I meant

ArtOfCode

4:36 PM

Oh dear... now the archives are .tar.gz. I guess I go get winrar too?

ProgramFOX

I believe 7-zip can do those.

always used that to unpack them

ArtOfCode

@ProgramFOX 'no module named setuptools'

dammit

ProgramFOX

ugh

@ArtOfCode Install pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools first

ArtOfCode

That would indeed help :) You're getting so many credits on this thing...

ProgramFOX

lol

ArtOfCode

4:49 PM

It would appear python 3 is still the one on the path...

ProgramFOX

Ah, yeah, that has to be fixed, or you have to call Python's full path.

ArtOfCode

Bloody hell. Remind me never to delete this so I never have to do it again :)

ProgramFOX

heh :P

ArtOfCode

please don't crash please don't crash

shit

ProgramFOX

:/

what error?

ArtOfCode

5:00 PM

No module named ChatExchange.chatexchange.client

ProgramFOX

Run git submodule update --init

ArtOfCode

Already did

ProgramFOX

Try it again, perhaps something went wrong.

ArtOfCode

Ah, the setup.py for chatexchange hasn't finished yet

ProgramFOX

you won't need that, though

ArtOfCode

5:01 PM

oh

hmm

ProgramFOX

chatexchange doesn't have to be setup.py'd because I give it to my bot from a subdirectory.

ArtOfCode

(you do know that subdir is empty, right?)

ProgramFOX

@ArtOfCode Well, fix that by running the submodule command.

you might have run it without --init

ArtOfCode

Ah is that what it does

Zizouz212

@ArtOfCode poor you...

I've been watching for the past hour...

ArtOfCode

5:02 PM

@Zizouz212 If you're helping, you've got this to go through as well >:)

Zizouz212

Sadly, I have python 2 + requests already :D

ArtOfCode

-_-

There are still 2 others.

Zizouz212

lol

ArtOfCode

You shall suffer as I did!

Zizouz212

Who are the other two?

ProgramFOX

5:04 PM

@Zizouz212 beautifulsoup4 and websocket-client

Zizouz212

I need those?

ArtOfCode

@Zizouz212 chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/25323/conversation/dependencies

Zizouz212

Okay :)

ArtOfCode

The links are there

Let's see who can get a working bot faster ;)

ProgramFOX

Me.

xD

ArtOfCode

5:05 PM

Hmm... very true

Pretty sure there's one already running over in the Den

ProgramFOX

yep

ArtOfCode

Right, so the git command is run... I assume I'm meant to run main.py?

ProgramFOX

yep

ArtOfCode

Still the same error

ProgramFOX

Is there anything in the subfolder now?

ArtOfCode

5:07 PM

I pasted the lot in earlier

Which was probably bad

ProgramFOX

So... what is there in your subdirectory now?

ArtOfCode

ChatExchange/chatexchange/*

Except I just deleted that to run the git command again

ProgramFOX

ouch

deleting that wasn't a good idea

ArtOfCode

I'm doing good :D

ProgramFOX

Well... let me update my bot to the latest ChatExchange and then I'll tell you how to solve this quickly.

ArtOfCode

5:10 PM

I can restore it from the bin, probably

ProgramFOX

nah, that's an outdated version anyway

ArtOfCode

Fair

OK I'll just wait for your solution instead because it'll be far easier xD

ProgramFOX

Okay @ArtOfCode, now delete your ChatExchange folder entirely and run these commands:

git pull origin master
git clone github.com/Manishearth/ChatExchange.git

ArtOfCode

Yeah that'd be great if I'd cloned the repository like a normal person

Remind me how to set origin?

ProgramFOX

origin is already set

because you cloned my bot's repo

ArtOfCode

5:14 PM

Ooooh no I didn't

I downloaded the ZIP like a little bitch

ProgramFOX

oh

ArtOfCode

Is it easier just to delete the thing and clone it?

ProgramFOX

Well, then do this: 1. Delete my bot's directory. 2. Run these commands:

Zizouz212

K finished with the dependencies

ProgramFOX

git clone github.com/ProgramFOX/SE-Chatbot.git
git submodule update --init

Zizouz212

5:15 PM

What do I do now?

ProgramFOX

@Zizouz212 see my code block ^

then run main.py

Zizouz212

k :)

ArtOfCode

god dammit why do I keep closing git

ProgramFOX

Answer "n" to the first question (answering "y" enables special features for a specific room which you won't need), fill in the details and it will post "Bot started." in the target room when it's started.

Zizouz212

It's asking me for a username...

ProgramFOX

5:16 PM

logon email

won't work if you don't use SE OpenID

Oh, right, I forgot this:

Zizouz212

So wait, like type in my email?

ProgramFOX

Before you can run the bot, you have to rename SecretSpellsTemplate.py to SecretSpells.py (yes, that's such a thing for that one room) and ConfigTemplate.py to Config.py and edit the most important values in the latter file.

@Zizouz212 yep

ArtOfCode

I'm slightly inclined to punch this thing... no module named SecretSpells

ProgramFOX

@ArtOfCode what I just said a few messages above ^ :)

ArtOfCode

oh that would help

Zizouz212

5:18 PM

Wait, does it have to be OpenID?

Because I've used my open gmail

ProgramFOX

@Zizouz212 Stack Exchange OpenID email, yes.

Zizouz212

damn it

ProgramFOX

If your email is a gmail one it's fine, as you as you sign in to SE using SE OpenID.

ArtOfCode

Oh. No owners found. What's the format they should go into Config.py in?

Zizouz212

I just connected it to Google, will it still be fine?

ArtOfCode

5:19 PM

@Zizouz212 No

Zizouz212

@Mnementh Get out while you can, you're about to experience hell...

ProgramFOX

If it's connected to SE OpenID too, I believe it should be fine.

Zizouz212

I'll try it.

ProgramFOX

@ArtOfCode I have put some examples there.

ArtOfCode

You need to be able to login with the StackExchange login button i think

Zizouz212

5:20 PM

I'll show you what I'm getting:

`Last login: Mon Jun 29 13:10:01 on ttys000
imac:~ zinedine$ git clone https://github.com/ProgramFOX/SE-Chatbox.git
Cloning into 'SE-Chatbox'...
Username for 'https://github.com': `

ProgramFOX

erm

Chatbot, not Chatbox

Ohhhh, a username in the Git terminal, not in my bot's main file!

Fix that typo^ and you should be fine.

Zizouz212

Oh

lol

wow

ProgramFOX

My bot says "Email" instead of "Username".

but I forgot that

Zizouz212

Fatal Error! fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

ProgramFOX

Uhh...

ArtOfCode

5:23 PM

You need to cd SE-Chatbot

I had that

ProgramFOX

yes, that^

forgot to mention that

Zizouz212

Oh.

Thanks :) Never done this before

ProgramFOX

I'm only answering here by mind, I'm not actually testing what I'm saying xD

ArtOfCode

@Zizouz212 I've done some... not to this scale

Zizouz212

I know...

ArtOfCode

5:24 PM

@ProgramFOX You're doing pretty good at remembering how to set it up then

Zizouz212

Now what? I've submoduled the --init

ProgramFOX

rename those two files as I said before, then put owner data in Config.py (an example is there) and run main.py (see a few messages above)

Zizouz212

Do python main.py?

ArtOfCode

@Zizouz212 quick question: what do we call this bot?

ProgramFOX

If python is Python 2, yes.

Zizouz212

5:27 PM

Did I miss something before this? I'm getting an ImportError

ProgramFOX

yes

let me find back that message

9 mins ago, by ProgramFOX

Before you can run the bot, you have to rename SecretSpellsTemplate.py to SecretSpells.py (yes, that's such a thing for that one room) and ConfigTemplate.py to Config.py and edit the most important values in the latter file.

Zizouz212

Okay thanks :)

ArtOfCode

@Zizouz212 - and @ProgramFOX too - name ideas? I'm going to create a separate account for this bot.

Zizouz212

edit values? Do I need to edit?

ProgramFOX

@Zizouz212 Yeah. I have put some samples in Config.py but you have to put your user ID in there because you are an owner.

@ArtOfCode Well... \o/ isn't really a word... erm... boring suggestion, PointsBot?

ArtOfCode

5:32 PM

I've called it KarmaBot until we come up with something better :)

Zizouz212

Sure :D

ProgramFOX

Before you can run the bot from an alternate account, you have to take two steps: 1. make it have 20 rep on any site. 2. Make it manually say something so it has a chat account.

Zizouz212

I'm guessing this for Configurations.site = stackexchange.com/rooms/25323/chatbot-dev

ProgramFOX

no, stackexchange.com

the room ID will be passed later

Zizouz212

Just that?

Ok makes sense

Okay, done with the Config...

ArtOfCode

5:38 PM

Guys, can you both upvote this post so that the user gets over 20 rep

Zizouz212

Oh! AWESOME!

ProgramFOX

done

now wait for caching to be killed

ArtOfCode

well that was quick

ProgramFOX

then make the bot something post in here

ArtOfCode

Back to editing the config

Zizouz212

5:39 PM

What's Shadow's Den?

ProgramFOX

Wizards Den

Place for all wizards to share spells, words, and having fun w...

7

2

The bot has special features for that room which you wouldn't want anywhere else.

ArtOfCode

@ProgramFOX Optional and NOT RECOMMENDED? I laugh at your recommendations ;)

ProgramFOX

xD

Zizouz212

It's asking me for a host..

ArtOfCode

Dammit fox, you forgot the commas at the end of the config lines ;)

Zizouz212

5:40 PM

Site...

ProgramFOX

@Zizouz212 stackexchange.com

Zizouz212

oh

wow

i feel stupid now..

ProgramFOX

@ArtOfCode lol oops, will fix

ArtOfCode

Ummmm

TypeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute '__getitem__'

ProgramFOX

@ArtOfCode Did you run it from the bot account?

ArtOfCode

5:43 PM

I gave it the bot account's login details, yeah

ProgramFOX

9 mins ago, by ProgramFOX

Before you can run the bot from an alternate account, you have to take two steps: 1. make it have 20 rep on any site. 2. Make it manually say something so it has a chat account.

^ That has to happen first, and perhaps you have to wait a bit after each step due to caching.

ArtOfCode

-_- Stop being clever!

ProgramFOX

For now, try to run it from your own account.

ArtOfCode

Yeah caching

Zizouz212

@KarmaBot Hello There :D

ArtOfCode

5:44 PM

Apparently I don't have 20 rep yet so it can't talk

Zizouz212

Does that mess you over?

ArtOfCode

Bot started.

ProgramFOX

>>alive

ArtOfCode

@ProgramFOX Yes, I'm alive.

ProgramFOX

\o/

Zizouz212

5:45 PM

What do I put here? "owners": [ { "stackexchange.com": value? } ],

ProgramFOX

146754

ArtOfCode

This is weird seeing it post as me

Oooh is it my SE-wide ID?

I've given it my ID for here xD

ProgramFOX

@ArtOfCode It's your chat.SE ID.

So, for you, 121520

ArtOfCode

stop

Zizouz212

errrr

ArtOfCode

5:46 PM

damn

how do i stop it from the console?

>>listcommands

ProgramFOX

@ArtOfCode $-stop

@ArtOfCode it ignores commands from the bot itself...

Zizouz212

I'm guessing I'll have to create a new account?

ArtOfCode

Oh xD

ProgramFOX

@ArtOfCode Oh... it also makes the bot leave the room, as you noticed :P

ArtOfCode

Yeah...

Also, $-stop stopped the thing by throwing an error ;)

ProgramFOX

5:48 PM

@Zizouz212 If @Art passes you the credentials of KarmaBot then that shouldn't be necessary.

@ArtOfCode Ugh. Which one?

Zizouz212

@Art ?

ArtOfCode

<< $-stop
error: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
2015-06-29 17:47:25.916000 UTC
File "C:\Users\Owen\Documents\Work\Programming\Python\Points\SE-Chatbot-master
\SE-Chatbot\ExceptHook.py", line 38, in run_with_except_hook
run_old(*args, **kw)

File "C:\Python27\lib\threading.py", line 763, in run
self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)

File "C:\Users\Owen\Documents\Work\Programming\Python\Points\SE-Chatbot-master
\SE-Chatbot\ChatExchange\chatexchange\browser.py", line 663, in _runner
a = self.ws.recv()

Zizouz212

K. Thanks. Let's see what I can do :)

ProgramFOX

@ArtOfCode Oh, something wrong with a websocket connection. Never had that, though, so I don't know if you'll always get that.

ArtOfCode

@ProgramFOX It stopped, which is what I wanted, so I'm not fussed really

KarmaBot caching update: still not ready

ProgramFOX

5:50 PM

@ArtOfCode delete that quickly, Zizouz can view it after you deleted it anyway

so people cannot abuse it

Zizouz212

Good idea

ProgramFOX

Only room owners and mods can see the content of deleted messages.

Zizouz212

(removed)? Oh well...

Anyways, I'm getting that same TypeError

ArtOfCode

Hit the dropdown

You can find it in history

ProgramFOX

@Zizouz212 caching, wait a while

Zizouz212

5:51 PM

Sure

ArtOfCode

When it updates, I'll post a manual message since I've got it logged in

ProgramFOX

Caching like this can take up to an hour, IIRC.

ArtOfCode

-_- SE

Bot started.

Zizouz212

oh.

Bot started?

ProgramFOX

>>alive

ArtOfCode

5:53 PM

@ProgramFOX Yes, I'm alive.

Ja, the bot's running on my account at the moment

Zizouz212

ahhhh.

Ok

ArtOfCode

you can listcommands to find the commands

Zizouz212

Wait, confused

ArtOfCode

??

porque

Zizouz212

???

ArtOfCode

5:55 PM

why confused?

Zizouz212

listcommands>

?

ArtOfCode

precede with >>

@ProgramFOX, care to demonstrate?

ProgramFOX

>>listcommands

ArtOfCode

@ProgramFOX Commands: alive, help, listcommands, random, randomchoice, randomint, shuffle, translate, utc, xkcd, xkcdrandomnumber

ProgramFOX

^

ArtOfCode

5:56 PM

try xkcd 1329

Zizouz212

xkcd 1329?

ArtOfCode

It's a command

Run >>xkcd 1329

Zizouz212

As an argument to python main.py?

ArtOfCode

No, here

Zizouz212

Where?

ArtOfCode

5:58 PM

In chat

Type that in and hit enter

>>xkcd 1329

what?

Exactly

i'm even more confused...

ArtOfCode

5:59 PM

I've got a bot running, posting as me

Anything preceded with >> is a command

Zizouz212

Let me start from the beginning....

python main.py

ArtOfCode

Co-rrect

Zizouz212

email + password...

ArtOfCode

When we get KB running, I'll give you +5.8 for that

Zizouz212

imac:SE-Chatbot zinedine$ python main.py
Does the bot run in Shadow's Den? (y/n) n
Site: stackexchange.com
Room number: 25323
Email address: opensource.se.chatbot@gmail.com
Password:
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests-2.7.0-py2.7.egg/requests/packages/urllib3/util/ssl_.py:90: InsecurePlatformWarning: A true SSLContext object is not available. This prevents urllib3 from configuring SSL appropriately and may cause certain SSL connections to fail. For more information, see https://urllib3.readthedocs.org/en/latest/security.html#insecureplatfo…

err

why?

ProgramFOX

6:03 PM

Sometimes I randomly get that error -- a bot restart resolves it.

Restart the shell?

just the bot

How would I do that?

Also, to get rid of the InsecurePlatformWarning, run pip install requests[security] if you use pip.

@Zizouz212 just re-run the command to start it

Zizouz212

k

That same TypeError... :(

ProgramFOX

6:05 PM

still caching

ArtOfCode

If you're still using the bot's credentials, that's because it can't chat yet. Try using yours.

Zizouz212

@ProgramFOX You can see?

ProgramFOX

The bot doesn't have 20 rep here, so, yes, I can see that.

Zizouz212

@ArtOfCode But will mine work? It's just a connected google account?

ArtOfCode

@Zizouz212 Try it :)

Zizouz212

6:06 PM

Sure :)

ProgramFOX

Hmm... if no SE OpenID is linked to your account, it won't work.

Zizouz212

Yeah, it doesn't: LoginError: failed to get 'usr' cookie from SE OpenID

ArtOfCode

Ah well. You'll just have to wait until the bot's available

Zizouz212

Sure :)

ArtOfCode

Anyone know why SE doesn't update the chat rep cache more frequently?

ProgramFOX

6:15 PM

Because it isn't that important.

probably

Zizouz212

I'll try in a little while

ProgramFOX

You can try it when you see that the chat account has 20 rep.

ArtOfCode

I'll post a message as KarmaBot when the cache updates, so you'll know then

Zizouz212

Sure :D

Then I'll definitely try it out :D

ProgramFOX

I've seen another bot where it didn't immediately work after they posted a message, though. I hope it works now immediately.

ArtOfCode

6:18 PM

Caching again

shouldiblamecaching.com

Zizouz212

lol

ArtOfCode

I'm off for a while, but I'll be back later and the bot will probably be ready by then

ProgramFOX

cya

Zizouz212

Sure. Cya!

ProgramFOX

6:39 PM

I have to go now. If you have a question, ping me and I'll respond tomorrow.

Cya!

ArtOfCode

7:16 PM

@Zizouz212 ja

Zizouz212

Since we're the room owners here, we can give the karmabot read and write permissions...

Why didn't we think of that!

ArtOfCode

@Zizouz212 I did think of that ;) It didn't let me

Zizouz212

Oh

never mind :(

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ArtOfCode has made a change to the feeds posted into this room

ArtOfCode has stopped a feed from being posted into this room

ArtOfCode

room mode changed to Gallery: anyone may enter, but only approved users can talk

room mode changed to Public: anyone may enter and talk

Nope, I can't get it to work

ArtOfCode

7:36 PM

@Zizouz212 mods can grant <20 access, not room owners. I have just discovered this. I've also asked for a mod to come over and do so for us at some point.

Zizouz212

Oh.

Meh

ArtOfCode

Caching will probably deal with it before that

Wizards Den

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