deltabot-cli for Go

Library to speedup Delta Chat bot development in Golang.

With this library you can focus on writing your event/message processing logic and let us handle the repetitive process of creating the bot CLI.

Install

go get -u github.com/deltachat-bot/deltabot-cli-go

Installing deltachat-rpc-server

This package depends on a standalone Delta Chat RPC server deltachat-rpc-server program that must be available in your PATH. For installation instructions check: https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust/tree/master/deltachat-rpc-server

Usage

Example echo-bot written with deltabot-cli:

package main

import (
	"github.com/deltachat-bot/deltabot-cli-go/botcli"
	"github.com/deltachat/deltachat-rpc-client-go/deltachat"
	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
)

func main() {
	cli := botcli.New("echobot")

	// incoming message handling
	cli.OnBotInit(func(cli *botcli.BotCli, bot *deltachat.Bot, cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) {
		bot.OnNewMsg(func(bot *deltachat.Bot, accId deltachat.AccountId, msgId deltachat.MsgId) {
			msg, _ := bot.Rpc.GetMessage(accId, msgId)
			if msg.FromId > deltachat.ContactLastSpecial && msg.Text != "" {
				bot.Rpc.MiscSendTextMessage(accId, msg.ChatId, msg.Text)
			}
		})
	})
	cli.OnBotStart(func(cli *botcli.BotCli, bot *deltachat.Bot, cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) {
		cli.Logger.Info("OnBotStart event triggered: bot is about to start!")
	})
	cli.Start()
}

Save the previous code snippet as echobot.go then run:

go mod init echobot; go mod tidy
go run ./echobot.go init bot@example.com PASSWORD
go run ./echobot.go serve

Use go run ./echobot.go --help to see all the available options.

Check the examples folder for more examples.

This package depends on https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-rpc-client-go library, check its documentation to better understand how to use the Delta Chat API.

Template project

To help you quickly creating new bots, we have prepared a project template with all the basic boilerplate, including unit tests, linter and GitHub CI to test and release your bot. Check it here: https://github.com/deltachat-bot/echobot-go