Introducing JSONBOT JSONBOT is a bot that stores all its data in json format. It runs on the Google Application Engine and can thus support wave, web and xmpp. Standalone programms are provided for IRC and console, the goal is to let both clientside and GAE side communicate through JSON either over XMPP or HTTP POST. this bot needs google_appengine installed in your home dir JSONBOT provides the following programs: j sb - console version of jsonbot jsb-irc - IRC version of jsonbot jsb-run - run a release in the GAE dev_appserver jsb-release - create a new release directory jsb-upload - upload a release to the GAE JSONBOT 0.1 contains the following plugins: 8b - eight ball admin - administator related commands ask - plugin for asking "experts" a question choice - choice out of a list .. used in pipelines core - core bot commands count - count the numbers in a resutl .. used in pipelines gadget - wave gadget support gcalc - use google to calculate gozernet - connect multiple JSONBOTs through xmpp grep - grep the result .. used in pipelines hubbub - pubsubhubbub plugin providing subscribe functionality ipcalc - ipcalculator irc - IRC related commands misc - other commands more - do a more on buffered output not - negated grep .. used in pipelines outputcache - show outputcache data relay - relay to other waves/xmpp account reload - reloading of plugins reverse - reverse the result .. also used in pipelines sort - sort the result .. used in pipelines tail - tail the result .. used in pipelines tinyurl - get a tinyurl uniq - make the result unique .. used in pipelines user - user management userstate - userstate management watcher - watch waves .. get notified in xmpp wave - wave related commands welcome - welcome messages shown in the gadget wikipedia - query wikipedia To upload your own bot do the following: you need an account on the Google Application Engine. see http://appengine.google.com/ 1) run jsb-release yourbotname - this will create a uploadable dir 2) run jsb-upload yourbotname this enables web and xmpp, for wave you need to do the following: 2) go to https://wave.google.com/wave/robot/register and register your bot 3) edit ~/regs/yourbotname/ dir and copy the verification token and secret to the credentials.py file 4) run jsb-release yourbotname 4) run jsb-upload yourbotname 5) once its uploaded click the "verify" button 6) copy the consumer key and secret to the credentials.py file en run jsb-upload again 7) done ! Now you should be able to do the following: 1) visit the website at http://yourbotname.appspot.com 2) add the bot as Jabber buddy at yourbotn...@appspot.com 3) the same as wave bot 4) on joining a wave the bot loads a gadget from http://yourbotname.appspot.com/gadget.xml 5) manifest to add your bot to the waves newwave menu use http://yourbotname.appspot.com/feeder.xml JSONBOT is open source (MIT license) and free to clone when needed, patches welcomed though ;] home: http://jsonbot.googlecode.com/ demo: http://jsonbot.appspot.com/ wave/xmpp: jsonbot@appspot.com contact: bthate@gmail.com