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Pokémon Showdown! GoBot

Another Pokémon Showdown! bot, this time in Go. Written by TalkTakesTime as a learning exercise.

Installation

This bot runs on Go, Google's open-source language, and was developed for version 1.4.2, although it has not been tested on any other versions.

It requires the following packages to run:

• encoding/json -- for logging in
• errors -- for custom errors
• flag -- for command line arguments
• github.com/TalkTakesTime/hookserve -- for GitHub webhooks
• github.com/tonnerre/golang-pretty -- for pretty printing
• golang.org/x/net/websocket -- for websockets
• gopkg.in/yaml.v2 -- for parsing the config
• io/ioutil -- for reading files and http responses
• log -- for logging
• net/http -- for logging in
• net/url -- for logging in
• os -- for dealing with log files
• regexp -- for the PS standard toId function
• strconv -- for converting between int and string
• strings -- for message parsing
• time -- for sleeping etc

I will assume that you know how to clone a Git repository or otherwise obtain the source code (hint: go get github.com/TalkTakesTime/gobot works). To install the dependencies, navigate to the directory you downloaded this repository to, and run

go get .
go build

To build and start the bot, run

cd main
go build
./main

If you want to give the executable a custom name, use

go build -o name

and if you would like it to log to a file filename.log rather than to stdout, use

./main -log=filename.log

To log to a file whose name is the current date, use

./main -log=$(date -Iseconds).log

From there, you're on your own! However, one final warning: the bot will panic if the port chosen for config.HookPort is already in use, so choose carefully.

License

GoBot is distributed under the terms of the MIT License.