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)

git clone [email protected]:ilyakamens/harmon-killebrew-bot.git
put real data into config.json
cd harmon-killebrew-bot
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