Crontab implementation for Errbot

It is extention for plugin of Errbot to implement poller llike crontab.

Requirements

• Python 2.7 or 3.4+
• six
• crontab
• pytz
• (Errbot)

Installation

$ pip install errcron
or
$ pip install git+https://github.com/attakei/errcron.git

Usage

Example

from errcron import CrontabMixin


class ClockTimer(CrontabMixin, BotPlugin):
    CRONTAB = [
        '@hourly .post_hourly',
        '0 8 * * * .post_morning_call @attakei'
    ]

    def activate(self):
        super().activate()
        # some expression

    def post_hourly(self, polled_time):
        user =  self.build_identifier('#general')
        return self.send(user, 'Just {} o-clock!!'.format(polled_time.strftime('%H')))

    def post_morning_call(self, polled_time, identity):
        user =  self.build_identifier(identity)
        return self.send(user, 'Good morning!')

1. Extend your plugin by CrontabMixin
2. Define crontab
3. In activate, activate crontab too
4. Run

Latest changes

version 0.4.4

• Fix for latest crontab-parser
• Fix test targets in Travis-CI

version 0.4.3

• Add python 3.6 for test target (compatible)
• Can import as from errcron import CrontabMixin

License

Errbot is available as open source software and released under the GPL v3 license.

See full license file.