showdown-rs

A very experimental Rust chatbot library for Pokemon Showdown.

Usage

Clone the repo, write your own plugins, run cargo run. See example configuration file, and example plugins provided in the plugin mod to get started.

You can also run cargo build then RUST_LOG=debug ./target/debug/showdown_bot_bin for debug level logging or RUST_LOG=info ./target/debug/showdown_bot_bin to print messages the bot sees (uses env_logger crate).

NOTE: The config.toml and .env files should be placed in the root directory of the project.

Todos

Hard

• Static lifetimes on websocket messages seem like the wrong thing to do.
• Spawn new threads for every plugin handle.
• Implement plugins that operate on a timer.
• Reduce necessary LOC to create functioning plugins.
• Automatic matching for plugins with Config options plugin_prefixes and case_insensitive. Approach idea: provide a raw string when a new plugin is created to be used as a regex match. Write a default implementation of is_match using the bot config and this provided string. Use RegexBuilder.

Easy but annoying

• Expand API for Message.
• Tests and documentation.