On the way to build a fully-automated coding bot.
It's a functional prototype bot which can replicate code files randomly from designated source. The replicated code is then committed to local git repo and pushed to Github repo.
First, be sure you have Python 3.6+ installed. (Python 3.6.5rc1+ recommended)
Optionally create a virtual environment for this bot, and dive into this virtual environment.
python36 -m venv py36_venv\ghsp2ofer
py36_venv\ghsp2ofer\Scripts\activate (on Windows)
Download ghsp2ofer and extract to a specific folder, such as ghsp2ofer_bot. change your working directory to ghsp2ofer_bot.
Install required packages.
(ghsp2ofer) pip install -r requirements
Create two necessary directories: ghsp2ofer_bot\cloned_repos, ghsp2ofer_bot\source_repos.
Create an empty repository on Github (wihtout .gitignore). For example, new repository Spoofer.
Rename ghsp2ofer_bot\settings_example.py as ghsp2ofer_bot\settings.py, put necessary information in to ghsp2ofer_bot\settings.py.
- Set settings.DEFAULT_REPO as
Spoofer( or whatever repository name you created earlier) - Set settings.WAIT_STRATEGY, currently two strategies are available:
- RandomWaitStrategy: delays next commit by random(settings.RANDOM_MIN_MINUTES, settings.RANDOM_MAX_MINUTES) minutes.
- RandomWorkHourStrategy: delays next commit by random(settings.RANDOM_MIN_MINUTES, settings.RANDOM_MAX_MINUTES) minutes if and only if the next commit time lays in settings.WORK_HOURS
- Set settings.RANDOM_MIN_MINUTES, settings.RANDOM_MAX_MINUTES. The bot will be triggered and sleep for random(settings.RANDOM_MIN_MINUTES, settings.RANDOM_MAX_MINUTES) minutes.
- Set settings.WORK_HOURS which specifies working hours of this bot.
Create directory ghsp2ofer_bot\source_repos\Spoofer, and put in code files to be replicated.
Final step,
(ghsp2ofer) python bot.py