harmon-killebrew-bot

A simple bot for playing Harmon Killebrew (the celebrity name game) in HipChat

Description

• harmon-killebrew-bot will listen to HipChat messages and write celebrity names to a MySQL DB
• it will reject previously used submissions
• it will choose the next person in the list and @mention them
• it recognizes same first-letter names and will reverse the order
• it currently stores the celebrity name, as well as the author and date of the submission

Requirements

• PyMySql
• Hipster
• MySQL
• MySQLdb
• populating config.json with real data

Installation (Ubuntu)

1. git clone [email protected]:ilyakamens/harmon-killebrew-bot.git
2. put real data into config.json
3. cd harmon-killebrew-bot
4. sudo ./install.sh

Usage

python bot.py

Super user commands

config.json specifies a super user, who has two commands at his/her disposal when written into the chat:

• reverse order (switches the order the bot chooses players in)
• set current player: full_name (sets full_name [e.g. Ilya Kamens] to be the current player)
• set current letter: some_letter (sets current letter to some_letter)
• who's next (makes bot say who the next player is)
• (downvote) submission (removes submission from the mysql table and sets current player to whomever authored the submission)
• who's current (makes bot say who the current player is)
• skip skips current player

Retroactive importing

Maybe you've been playing this game for a bit and want an easy way to add a list of names to the DB that have already been used. No problem:

• create a file with one name per line (e.g. names.txt)
• python import.py names.txt
• if you do this, know that the author will be IMPORT and authored will be the current date
• Maruya