ameliabot/README.adoc

A chatbot for owncast, inspiration from hatbot by hatniX.

Code attributions can be found in ATTRIBUTION.adoc

Requirements

• Owncast server

• Python 3

• Flask

Setup

• Install Flask (pip --user install Flask)

• Create an Owncast webhook url pointing to your bot’s location

  • http://localhost:5000/webhook/owncast if bot and owncast are on the same machine

• Run ameliabot the first time to generate a minimal configuration file

  • Or copy config.example.ini to config.ini and fill out the information required

Ameliabot can be run by executing start.sh or:

FLASK_APP=bot.py python3 -m flask run

Please use a proper uWSGI proxy if the bot is not on the same machine as owncast.