aperezdc/luabot

An XMPP (Jabber) bot written in Lua using the protocol implementation from Verse/Prosody

Luabot

Lua-based XMPP (Jabber) bot.

Requirements

• Lua 5.2, or 5.3
• LuaSocket.
• LuaFilesystem.
• LuaSec, for TLS/SSL support.
• LuaExpat, for XML parsing.

Installation

1. Install the dependencies. In Debian, this is apt-get install lua5.2 lua-{sec,expat,socket,filesystem} git-core
2. Clone the Git repository: git clone git://github.com/aperezdc/luabot
3. Edit the configuration: $EDITOR luabot/config.lua
4. (Optional) Depending on the enabled options, you may need to create additional directories, e.g. if the keystore plugin is enabled, create the directory configured for the path setting.
5. (Optional) Depending on the enabled options, you may need to install the optional dependencies.
6. Start the bot:

lua bot.lua config.lua

Optional Dependencies

• lightningmdb can be used as a backend for the keystore plugin. It is available in LuaRocks.

Licensing

Please see the LICENSE.md file.