jeffcasavant / Halcyon-stock-bot

A template / demo bot for the Halcyon matrix bot library

Halcyon stock bot

Hello! This is an example / template bot using the halcyon matrix bot library. Feel free to ask questions in the matrix chat #halcyon:blackline.xyz

Bot goals

This bot will

1. Sit in a room, and respond with the current price of a stock when some calls the ticker. For example "Hey guys, did you see that $UVKY just spiked?"
2. Respond with the
   • Stock name
   • Current price
   • Todays Percent change
3. Join rooms via invite
4. Set its status message

Requirments

1. A matrix account for the bot
2. An free api key from IEX
3. A place to run the bot

Bot setup

1. Install Halcyon python3 -m pip install halcyon
2. Create a Halcyon token python3 -m halcyon -s server.xyz -u @hstockbot:server.xyz -p "password"
3. Save the above key, and along with your IEX key in a file called creds.json, formatted like below.

{
	"halcyon":"eyJ0e==",
	"iex": "pk_12",
	"iex_dev":"Tpk_78"
}

4. Run the bot python3 bot.py
5. Invite the bot to an unencrypted room, and give it a test