Installing and running on OSX¶
Introduction¶
There instructions are for setting up a Sevabot to run on OSX desktop.
These instructions are mostly useful for Sevabot development and testing and not for actual production deployments.
Installing Skype¶
Install Skype for OSX normally. Create your Skype user.
Installing sevabot¶
Sevabot is deployed as Python virtualenv installation.
Install sevabot
using virtualenv:
git clone git://github.com/opensourcehacker/sevabot.git
cd sevabot
curl -L -o virtualenv.py https://raw.github.com/pypa/virtualenv/master/virtualenv.py
arch -i386 python virtualenv.py venv
source venv/bin/activate
arch -i386 python setup.py develop
This will
- Pull all Python package dependencies from pypi.python.org
- Create a scripts under
venv/bin/
to run Sevabot
Note
If you want to live dangerously you can use git dev branch where all the development happen.
Set password and other settings¶
Customize Sevabot settings:
# Create a copy of settings.py
cd ~/sevabot
cp settings.py.example settings.py
Setup your Skype admin username and HTTP interface password by editing settings.py
.
Running sevabot¶
Type:
arch -i386 sevabot
When you launch it for the first time you need to accept the confirmation dialog in the desktop environment (over VNC on the server).
or which ever display you’re running your skype on your server.
Note
There might be a lot of logging and stdout output when the bot starts and scans all the chats of running Skype instance.
Eventually you see in the console:
Running on http://127.0.0.1:5000/
Testing HTTP interface¶
Sevabot server interface is listening to port 5000. This interface offers
- Chat list (you need to know group chat id before you can send message into it)
- Webhooks for integrating external services
Just access the Sevabot server by going with your web browser to:
http://localhost:5000