Appdate Bot Module

This is the module you need to use when creating a new Appdate bot.

To create a new Bot, let's say for the project foobar:

Create a new directory (es: mkdir bot-foobar)
run npm init and answer the questions as follows
- the name of the bot should be 'appdate-bot-foobar'
- the version should be 0.0.1
- enter a brief description ("This is the bot...")
- the entry point is index.js
- the test command can be left empty
- git repository can be left empty (the bot will be included as part of the main Appdate project)
- keywords are appdate, appdate-bot, foobar
- author is... you
- license should be MIT or BSD
run npm install appdate-bot --save
run touch index.js

Now open up index.js with your favourite text editor and start writing your bot.

For example:

var bot = require('appdate-bot');

var bot = new Bot({
    group: 'Foobar',
    name: 'Foobar 1.x',
    description: 'The Foobar project, version 1.x',
    website: 'http://www.foobar-project.com/',
    repository: 'https://github.com/foobar/foobar-project'
});

bot.fetch('http://www.foobar-project.com/releases')

    .then(function (response) {

        var $tags = response.$('#container > li');

        bot.set('releaseDate', $tags.find('time').attr('datetime'));
        bot.set('currentVersion', $tags.find('h3 > a > .tag-name').text());
        bot.set('downloadUrl', 'http://code.jquery.com/jquery-%s.js', bot.get('currentVersion'));
        bot.set('downloadPage', 'http://www.foobar-project.com/download/');
        bot.set('releaseNotesUrl', 'http://www.foobar-project.com/changelog/');

        bot.end();
    })

    .catch(function (err) {
        bot.abort(err);
    });

scotu/appdate-bot

Appdate Bot Module