Buddy as a Service (baas) is a jabber/wave robot, using Yahoo YQL API, Google API and other services to do searches (web, news, reviews, wikipedia, imdb) and some other stuff (translations, weather forecast, etc) for you. The XMPP bot also runs on the google appengine. BaaS is easy extensible through plugins. No API Keys required! requirements: - Universal Feed Parser ( http://www.feedparser.org ) and Chardet - Twisted Words ( http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/TwistedWords ) - if running as wave robot: wave-robot-python-client ( http://code.google.com/p/wave-robot-python-client/ ) If you want to see BaaS in action, try one of the following demos: xmpp-bot: add baas@borho.net to your jabber contacts. appengine-xmpp-robot: add buddyasaservice@appspot.com to your jabber contacts wave-robot: add buddyasaservice@appspot.com to your contacts usage: type 'help' for available commands news:word - searches for news web:word - websearch blip:song - search for songs on blip.fm gnews:word - google news search gweb:word - google web search metacritic:title - search for reviews on metacritc.com imdb:title - search for movie on IMDb wikipedia:thing - search on wikipedia wiktionary:word - search on wiktionary tlate:word [@source] [#target] - translates the word from @source in @target, default #target is english example:foo - gives you a bla for a foo blog:word - blog search via twingly micro:word - microblog search via twingly weather:city [,country] [#lang] - get weather information and forecast Some commands (news,web) can be combined with lang-codes, like #de, #en, #es etc: news:hamburg #de web:xmpp #de gnews and gweb can be also combined with lang-codes, like #de, #en, #es etc: gnews:hamburg #de gweb:xmpp #de IMDb search can be narrowed down with #en, #de, #es, #pt, #it or #fr The different wikipedia or wiktionary versions can be selected via #en, #de, #fr etc. A translation can have the source (@) and the target (#) language specified by tags tlate:Wie gehts? @de #en tlate:Wie gehts? @de #es tlate:How do you do? #de Installation/Configuration: xmpp-bot: a) easy_install baas b) command 'baas_bot' will be installed c) for an example configuration file type 'baas_bot -s' d) for all options type 'baas_bot -h' e) start your bot with 'baas_bot -c /path/to/your/conf' wave-robot/appengine-xmpp-bot: a) download source package from github b) extract source package in your app root c) copy baas/conf/app.yaml to your app root and modify d) copy baas/conf/baas.conf to your app root and modify e) fullfill package dependencies *************************************************************** ****** Copyright 2009 Martin Borho <martin@borho.net> ********* ****** GPLv3 - see License.txt for details ********* ***************************************************************