³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Programmes via Jabber
Post categories: Prototype
| 13:20 UK time, Monday, 3 November 2008
This IM bot comes from a ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ member of staff ...
I have been playing with , , and the various client libraries, specifically the rather wonderfully simple and .It all started because I was doing a integration job with a at , and was getting frustrated with the fact that it is still not super simple to update my location. It struck me as I stared at my desktop, that I always have running. Wouldn't it be great if I had a Fireeagle contact that I could just tell my location, and it would go off and update, letting me know when they're done. Now that part is midway done (post to come), but before I started that, I wanted to research more the workings of a , a computer program that pretends to be a human and can answer basic commands. They have been around for a long time, I remember playing with an a while back, getting it to display the last commit messages from .
So that research turned into a ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Programmes bot. As I worked on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Programmes, I have good knowledge of the site and the data within, and building a bot that integrated with that data seemed a good example of using the restful API available.
If you just want to try this thing out, here are the details of what you need to do.
- You need a or Jabber compatible IM account
- You need a enabled client, I've listed a few:
- Linx: , GTalk
- Mac: , Adium,
- Win: Psi, ,
- You need to add a new contact: im.bbcprogrammes@gmail.com
This should be it. You should have a new contact appear in your list (They have a ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ logo as an avatar). You can now begin a conversation with this contact. It's probably best to start with: HELP
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