Chatops

Chatops is a chatbot which integrates with google hangouts chat and helps automate a lot of ops. It currently does not interpret natural langauge. So, the interaction happens through a limited set of commands/statements

What it can do

It is capable of executing commands/scripts based on a user's message. You can use help to get all the available commands and how to use them.

How it works

• When a user messages the bot on hangouts, hangouts will make a post requests to chatops service with the message and other details.
• Chatops will try to match the message with the defined set of regex strings.
• Each regex string is tied to a command/script.
• If the regex matches the message the user sent, the tied command/script will be executed.
• The output of the command/script will be sent to the same user (async).
• These regex strings are stored in a file called commands.json. This file will be read only once, when the service starts.

Installation

Download pre-built binary

Download the latest pre-built binary for your platform from the release page.

Build from source

• Clone repository
• Install dependencies

  $ go get -d
  

• Build the binary

  $ go install
  

Get started

• Create a commands.json file with the following format

  {
      "commands": [
          {
              "name": "command11",
              "command": "echo 'hello world from command 1'",
              "regex": "^test-command-1$"
          },
          {
              "name": "command-2",
              "command": "echo 'hello world from command 2'",
              "regex": "^test-command-2$"
          }
      ]
  }
  

• Each command can be of the following variation

  // Command that runs on a remote machine 
  {
      "name": "command-name",
      "hostname": "<ip address>",
      "command": "<shell command>",
      "regex": "^The text that triggers this command$",
      "example": "<example usage>"
  }
  
  // Command that runs locally
  {
      "name": "command-name",
      "command": "<shell command>",
      "regex": "^The text that triggers this command$",
      "example": "<example usage>"
  }
  
  // Command that takes an arguement
  {
      "name": "command-name",
      "command": "command {{arg1}} {{arg2}}",
      "regex": "^text with (?P<arg1>\\S+) (?P<arg2>\\S+)$",
      "example": "text with 1 2"
  }
  

• Create a config.json file with the following details

  {
      "BotName": "<bot name>",
      "HangoutsToken": "<hangouts chat varification token>",
      "DialogFlowAccessToken": "<dialogflow access token>",
      "CommandsPath": "<path to commands.json>",
      "ServiceAccountCredsPath": "<path to google service account credentials file>"
  }
  

• Run the binary file

  $ chatops -config path_to_config.json
  

  The server should start. The output would look something like this

  $ chatops -config path_to_config.json                                                                                
  2019/05/09 23:03:19 Syncing commands list
  2019/05/09 23:03:19 Total commands 1
  ⇨ http server started on [::]:1323
  

• Now, go to google developer console and configure the hangouts chat API to hit this server.

Contributing

No guidelines yet. Just make a PR.