a maidbot prototype, currently powering @pluutia on Twitter.
A maidbot is, to keep it short, just a simple bot acting like a maid, wishing you good morning/evening, cheering you up and offering you several things.
My personal goal of plutia was to create a bot that is as close as possible to human-like behaviour with replies to stuff that other people on Twitter would also do. So it's part a learning experience/social experiment.
- A place where plutia can be run for a long time.
- Ruby (install a
rubypackage or use RubyInstaller) - A Twitter Application to be bound to.
Simply copy the config.example.yml and rename it to config.yml and fill out the empty fields!
Just run ruby plutia.rb and you are good to go!
plutia already comes with a set of several triggers and replies which she can work with, but of course, anyone can extend these lists and add more to them.
A trigger is something plutia needs to see in the incoming tweets (either from a tweet in the User Stream or a reply) to act upon, you can find them in config.yml
Example:
- :key: :hug
:require_mention: true
:triggers:
- /give me a hug/
- /hug please/:key: The list name of the file insidereplies/:require_mention: Does this trigger need to be in a mention or not?:triggers: Supply one or multiple triggers for that list of replies (you can use regex here)
Replies are the things plutia is saying to you after she gets triggered with one of the specified keywords. You can find these in replies/. These are simple files just including a list of strings she will pull out one off randomly, so for more variety, specify more!
If you have any ideas for more replies and things plutia could reply to, either open an issue with your suggestions or fork the repository and make your changes with the guide above and submit them with a Pull Request!
- nilsding who helped cleaning up huge parts of the code!
plutia is licensed under the aGPLv3 license