#WelcomeBot

A Stack Exchange chatbot written in Python that uses ChatExchange. Many parts of this were modeled after SmokeDetector, another Stack Exchange chatbot.

##Features

• Welcomes new users entering chatrooms on chat.stackexchange, chat.meta.stackexchange, and chat.stackoverflow with a custom welcome command made by you
• Many different chatroom commands:
• //image (image search term) - searches for and posts images of or relating to the image search term
• //choose (choice) or (choice) [or choice...] - makes decisions for you so you don't have to. Can accept more than two choices as long as they are separated by ' or '
• //weather (city)[, country/state] - gets the weather for whatever location you would like
• //help - tells you all of the commands listed above in case you forget
• //youtube (youtube search term) - search Youtube for and returns a video of or relating to your search term
• Commands for privileged users:
• //die - kills the bot if it is acting up
• //reset - resets the bot just in case
• //pull - updates the bot with the latest commit on Github
• //priv [user id] - gives a user the ability to use this command and the three commands listed above

To setup run:

git clone https://github.com/michaelpri10/WelcomeBot.git
cd WelcomeBot
git submodule init
git subodule update
sudo pip install beautifulsoup4
sudo pip install requests --upgrade
sudo pip install websocket-client --upgrade

Or you can just run the setup.sh file.

To run WelcomeBot, run nocrash.sh and log in with your Stack Exchange OpenID credentials.

##Why use WelcomeBot?

• Make new users feel welcome in your chatroom
• Have fun in your chatroom

##Source Code

• WelcomeBot is an open source project and all of its code is available on Github.

• WelcomeBot is constantly being updated; luckily the //pull commands makes it easy to keep up

• If you want to see WelcomeBot in action check out the Teenage Programmers Chatroom, the current home for WelcomeBot