ushahidi / gitter-irc-bot

:speech_balloon: Bot that synchronises messages from gitter and irc

gitter-irc-bot

Bot that synchronises messages from a gitter room and an irc channel.

Install with npm install gitter-irc-bot.

How to use

You need to set the following env variables

• GITTERBOT_APIKEY Log in with your github/gitter bot here and take the personal access token
• GITTERBOT_GITTER_ROOM The Gitter Room, e.g. datproject/discussions
• GITTERBOT_IRC_SERVER IRC Server name, e.g. irc.freenode.net
• GITTERBOT_IRC_CHANNEL IRC Channel name, e.g. #dat
• GITTERBOT_IRC_NICK The IRC user nick of the bot

Then start the bot with npm start, or if you install globally run gitter-irc-bot.

Deploy on heroku

When deploying to heroku you need to set HEROKU_URL to the url of your heroku app. Otherwise heroku will spin down your free heroku instance after a few minutes.