Dubbotbase NPM

DubBotBase

Provides a configuration-driven base for building dubtrack.fm bots which run in Node.js.

Installation

DubBotBase is available for consumption via npm.

What's the point?

DubBotBase has the following goals:

To abstract away the details of the dubtrack.fm API
To make it simple to add new functionality to a bot
To encourage good architecture in client applications, especially via loose coupling
To provide enough configuration to be useful, but not so much to be overwhelming

This project was created after I wrote my own bot, which had to be modified on a regular basis due to changes in the underlying API. Eventually I ended up retiring the bot as I didn't have enough time to keep up with the changes I was seeing. After learning from my mistakes there, I decided it would be best to create a separate NPM module which could be utilized to provide the basic bot framework. Then, I could create my bot by focusing just on the behaviors I wanted to achieve, and not worry too much about how to interface with dubtrack.fm itself.

What DubBotBase is not

DubBotBase is not a fully-functional bot in any sense of the term. If you download and run the project, it will do just two things:

Log into a dubtrack.fm room using configuration-provided values, and
Perform some application logging of the things it sees while there.

DubBotBase is intended only as a starting point for building functional bots.

Who's using DubBotBase

Right now I'm using DubBotBase to power my own bot, called EmancipatorBot. If you're using DubBotBase in your own project, let me know!

Getting started

Running a bot on top of DubBotBase is straightforward. You need to set up some required configuration (see below), then you're ready to add functionality to your bot, which is a simple matter of having files in the right directory structure.

You can follow the Getting Started guide.