Botact enables developers to focus on writing reusable application logic instead of spending time building infrastructure.
Botact enables developers to focus on writing reusable application logic instead of spending time building infrastructure.
via npm:
$ npm i botact -S
via yarn:
$ yarn add botact
express:
const express = require('express')
const bodyParser = require('body-parser')
const { Botact } = require('botact')
const app = express()
const bot = new Botact({
confirmation: process.env.CONFIRMATION,
token: process.env.TOKEN
})
// User wrote command 'start'
bot.command('start', ({ reply }) => {
reply('This is start!')
})
// User wrote message which contains 'car' or 'tesla'
bot.hears(/(car|tesla)/, ({ reply }) => {
reply('I love Tesla!')
})
// User joined in the group
bot.event('group_join', ({ reply }) => {
reply('Thanks!')
})
// User wrote any message
bot.on(({ reply }) => {
reply('What?')
})
// Parser request body
app.use(bodyParser.json())
// Bot's endpoint
app.post('/', bot.listen)
// Start listen on 3000
app.listen(process.env.PORT)
koa:
const Koa = require('koa')
const Router = require('koa-router')
const bodyParser = require('koa-bodyparser')
const { Botact } = require('botact')
const app = new Koa()
const router = new Router()
const bot = new Botact({
confirmation: process.env.CONFIRMATION,
token: process.env.TOKEN,
framework: 'koa'
})
// User wrote command 'start'
bot.command('start', ({ reply }) => {
reply('This is start!')
})
// User wrote message which contains 'car' or 'tesla'
bot.hears(/(car|tesla)/, ({ reply }) => {
reply('I love Tesla!')
})
// User joined in the group
bot.event('group_join', ({ reply }) => {
reply('Thanks!')
})
// User wrote any message
bot.on(({ reply }) => {
reply('What?')
})
// Bot's endpoint
router.post('/', bot.listen)
// Parser request body
app.use(bodyParser())
// Connect routes
app.use(router.routes())
// Start listen on 3000
app.listen(3000)
Create bot.
Definition:
constructor (settings: {
confirmation: string; // required
token: string; // required
group_id?: number;
framework?: string; // Server framework (express/koa)
// Flow Settings
flowTimeout?: number; // Document expire time, in seconds
redis?: boolean; // false by default
redisConfig?: object; // {} by default
})
Usage:
const { Botact } = require('botact')
const bot = new Botact({
confirmation: process.env.CONFIRMATION,
token: process.env.TOKEN
})
Call API method (https://vk.com/dev/methods).
Definition:
async api (
method: string, // required
options?: object, // api call parameters
): Promise<any>; // Promise with response/error
Usage:
const data = await bot.api('users.get', {
user_ids: 1
})
Call API by execute.
Definition:
async execute (
method: string, // required
options?: object, // api call parameters
callback?: function
): Promise<any>; // Promise with response/error
Usage:
bot.execute('users.get', {
user_ids: 1
}, (body) => {
// {
// response: [{
// id: 1,
// first_name: 'Павел',
// last_name: 'Дуров'
// }]
// }
})
Sends message to user
Definition:
async reply (
userId: number,
message: string, // required, if attachment not setten
attachment: string, // required, if message not setten
keyboard: Object // optional
): Promise<any> // Promise with response/error
Usage:
bot.command('start', (ctx) => {
// via shortcut from context
ctx.reply('Hi, this is start!')
// via shortcut with keyboard
ctx.reply('Yo, this is keyboard?', null, {
one_time: false,
buttons: [
[
{
action: {
type: 'text',
payload: {
button: 'Hello, world!'
},
label: 'Hello, world!'
},
color: 'primary'
}
]
]
})
// via function from context
ctx.sendMessage(ctx.user_id, 'Hi, this is start!')
// via function from instance
bot.reply(ctx.user_id, 'Hi, this is start!')
// to multiple users
bot.reply([ ctx.user_id, 1 ], 'Hi, this is start!')
})
Start listen.
Definition:
express:
listen (
req: any, // Express request, required
res: any // Express response, required
callback: function // Callback for errors
)
koa:
listen (
ctx: object, // Koa object, required
callback: function // Callback for errors
)
Usage:
// express
bot.listen(req, res, (error) => {
res.status(500).json({
error: 'Server error'
})
})
// koa
bot.listen(ctx, (error) => {
ctx.throw(500, 'Server error')
})
Add command w/ strict match.
Definition:
command (
command: string | string[],
callback: function
): Botact
Usage:
bot.command('start', ({ reply }) => reply('This is start!'))
Add event handler .
Definition:
event (
event: string | string[],
callback: function
): Botact;
Usage:
bot.event('group_join', ({ reply }) => reply('Thanks!'))
Add command w/ match like RegEx.
Definition:
hears (
hear: string | RegExp | (string | RegExp)[],
callback: function
): Botact;
Usage:
bot.hears(/(car|tesla)/, ({ reply }) => reply('I love Tesla!'))
Add reserved callback.
Definition:
on (
type: string,
callback: function
): Botact;
OR
on (
callback: function
): Botact;
Usage:
bot.on(({ reply }) => reply('What?'))
bot.on('audio', ({ reply }) => reply('Great music!'))
Add middleware.
Definition:
use (
callback: function
): Botact
Usage:
bot.use(ctx => ctx.date = new Date())
bot.on(({ date }) => {
// Fri Nov 24 2017 16:00:21 GMT+0300 (MSK)
})
Get options.
bot.options
// {
// confirmation: '12345',
// token: 'abcde...'
// }
Set options.
bot.options = { foo: 'bar' }
// {
// confirmation: '12345',
// token: 'abcde...',
// foo: 'bar'
// }
Delete keys settings.
Definition:
deleteOptions (
keys: string[]
): Botact
Usage:
bot.deleteOptions([ 'token', 'confirmation' ])
// {
// foo: 'bar'
// }
Upload and save cover. See detailed settings here.
Definition:
async uploadCover (
filepath: string, // Path to file with cover
settings?: object
): Promise<any> // Promise with response/error
Usage:
await bot.uploadCover('./cover.jpg', { crop_x2: 1590 })
// {
// images: [
// {
// url: "URL",
// width: 1920,
// height: 1080
// },
// [Object],
// [Object],
// [Object],
// [Object]
// ]
// }
Uploads document to peer.
Definition:
async uploadDocument (
filepath: string, // Path to file
peer_id: number,
type: 'doc' | 'audio_message' // 'doc' by default
): Promise<any>; // Promise with response/error
Usage:
await bot.uploadDocument('./book.pdf', 1234)
// {
// response:
// [{
// id: 1234,
// owner_id: 1234,
// title: "",
// ...
// }]
// }
Uploads photo to peer.
Definition:
async uploadPhoto (
filepath: string, // Path to picture
peer_id: number
): Promise<any> // Promise with response/error
Usage:
await bot.uploadPhoto('./picture.png', 1234)
// {
// id: 1234,
// album_id: 1234,
// owner_id: 1234,
// ...
// }
Add catch handler for errors.
Default handler:
console.error(`❌ Botact Error: ${typeof err === 'object' ? JSON.stringify(err) : err}`)
Usage:
// Handle all botact errors here
bot.catch((ctx, err) => {
// ctx - user's context
// err - throwed error
console.error(ctx, err)
})
bot.on((ctx) => {
if (ctx.peer_id !== 1) {
// Throw error to the .catch handler
return ctx.throw('User is not Pavel Durov')
}
})
Throw error.
Usage:
bot.catch((ctx, err) => {
console.error(ctx, err)
})
bot.command('start', (ctx) => {
if (ctx.peer_id === 301361473) {
return ctx.throw('User is blocked')
}
ctx.reply('Hello, how are you?')
})
Helper method to throw an error similar to .throw() when !value.
bot.catch((ctx, err) => {
console.error(ctx, err)
})
bot.command('start', (ctx) => {
ctx.assert(ctx.peer_id !== 301361473, 'User is blocked')
ctx.reply('Hello, how are you?')
})
const bot = new Botact({
...,
redis: true // enable redis
flowTimeout: 20 // timeout for delete documents
redisConfig: { // redis config
port: 1234
}
})
$ redis-server
const bodyParser = require('body-parser')
const express = require('express')
const { Botact } = require('botact')
const app = express()
const bot = new Botact({
confirmation: process.env.CONFIRMATION,
token: process.env.TOKEN,
redis: true,
flowTimeout: 20, // document will be deleted after 20 secs
redisConfig: {
host: '127.0.0.1', // default host for redis
port: 8080 // custom port for redis
},
})
bot.addScene('wizard',
({ reply, scene: { next } }) => {
next()
reply('Write me something!')
},
({ reply, body, scene: { leave } }) => {
leave()
reply(`You wrote: ${body}`)
}
)
bot.command('join', ({ scene: { join } }) => join('wizard'))
app.use(bodyParser.json())
app.post('/', bot.listen)
app.listen(process.env.PORT)
Add scene.
Definition:
addScene (
name: string,
...args: function[]
): Botact;
Usage:
bot.addScene('wizard',
({ reply, scene: { next } }) => {
next()
reply('Write me something!')
},
({ reply, body, scene: { leave } }) => {
leave()
reply(`You wrote: ${body}`)
}
)
Enter scene.
Definition:
async joinScene (
ctx: object,
scene: string,
session?: object, // {} by default
step?: number, // 0 by default
instantly?: boolean // true by default
): Promise<Botact>;
Usage:
bot.command('join', (ctx) => {
// with shortcut without additional settings
ctx.scene.join('wizard')
// simple usage with additional settings
bot.joinScene(ctx, 'wizard', { foo: 'bar' })
})
Navigate scene.
Definition:
async nextScene (
ctx: object,
session?: object, // {} by default
): Promise<Botact>;
Usage:
bot.addScene('wizard',
(ctx) => {
// with shortcut without additional settings
ctx.scene.next({ foo: 'bar' })
// simple usage with additional settings
bot.nextScene(ctx, { foo: 'bar' })
}
)
Leave scene.
Definition:
async leaveScene(
ctx: object
): Promise<Botact>;
Usage:
bot.addScene('wizard',
(ctx) => {
// with shortcut
ctx.scene.leave()
// simple usage
bot.leaveScene(ctx)
}
)
Botact includes TypeScript definitions.
via npm:
$ npm test
via yarn:
$ yarn test
MIT.
FAQs
Botact enables developers to focus on writing reusable application logic instead of spending time building infrastructure.
The npm package botact receives a total of 29 weekly downloads. As such, botact popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that botact demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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