8/31/2005 02:41:00 AM|||my moustache|||
Source has been updated! See updates below.
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Welcome Diggers!
The original bot is up and running, add conferencebot@gmail.com to see what all of this is about.
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You guys are totally crashing our little bot, but the source is available below. If you know what to do with it, do it, and post some more clone bots in the comments!
The original is pretty much dead, but I have faith in you guys. Do it up.
Just heard about this from my buddy octav on irc.
Evidently this isn't the first, but somebody's running a bot on Google Talk which essentially creates a chat room for Talk users. A few folks seem to think this is Google's doing, although I can't see this having as much practical application as oh, say, actual rooms.
Still, it's fun.
To join in, just add conferencebot@gmail.com to your Talk friends list.
Update: This bot is user created, and the author has made the source available. Thanks, isomer!
Update #2: The Digg stampede has subsided, the bot is doing fine. Feel free to join up: conferencebot@gmail.com.
Update #3: After two nights of heated (and rapid!) development, isomer has released new code and put up some helpful documentation for newcomers. I'll leave the original links to v1.0 for posterity's sake, but if you plan on implementing a bot, you should start with the latest release, still open source.
Version 1.1 Source and Documentation:
http://coders.meta.net.nz/~perry/jabber/confbot.php
Version 1.0 Source:
Note: NOT recommended for implementation; only for those who are interested in how this started. If you would like to run a bot, please use Version 1.1.
.zip - .tar.gz|||112547073005773817|||Google Talk Conference Bot9/01/2005 11:49:47 AM|||Anonymous|||Kudos to isomer and long live python!9/01/2005 12:04:51 PM||||||How to use it?9/01/2005 01:06:02 PM|||Asher|||take out the ____ is here and ____ is back...
It is vary cool!9/01/2005 01:37:34 PM|||Anonymous|||Terrific. I gots it working for our podcast www.nobodylikesonions.com9/01/2005 02:04:58 PM|||thebigmagu|||sorry if im being dumb but how do i set this up. can some one explaine it or give me a link thanx9/01/2005 02:37:05 PM|||Anonymous|||does anyone know how to spell?9/01/2005 02:37:24 PM||||||Well, there is no easy way to explain it, that's why it's posted SOURCE, and they said it's specificly for those who would know how. The bot was written in python, and we get the 3 source files to edit and run to our hearts' content... Now as for you learning how to use it... Errr, maybe learn python?... Open the files in wordpad to see them if you're just curious9/01/2005 02:58:24 PM||||||Actually, ignore what I just said... Basicly to run it, here's what you do... I'm not a python programmer, never looked much into python, always been too distracted by C++/Java... Anyway, basic steps
A)Download/unextract it... Kind of a given...
B)download and install the python windows installer (catoring to windows because anyone who uses linux is a lot more likely to know how to do it already) if you don't already have it
C)open up "confbot.py"
D)replace putyourgmailaccounthere with your gmail account and putyourpasswordhere with your gmail password.
E)Run confbot.py (with the other 2 files from the zip in its directory)
...And yeah, that should work, like I said, never dabbled in python, so excuse my ignorance....9/01/2005 04:14:55 PM|||Anonymous|||very cool, but pardon my ignorance: how do i use it?9/01/2005 07:03:04 PM|||Anonymous|||umm...by reading the previous post?9/01/2005 08:31:16 PM|||caffo|||http://caffo.textdriven.com/fortune.bot/
I've done a small hack on the source code and got that :)9/01/2005 11:52:46 PM||||||His version is still the most updated at all times, and the central general-talking one, but I have a secondary bot at digg.bot@gmail.com...9/03/2005 02:26:49 PM||||||conference bot is great :)
but is it only one bot for one gmail account or
can we open several rooms within one bot ?
thank you :)