Hubot-Weixin

• 中文版
• This is wechat/weixin adapter for hubot.
• Notation: wechat is another name for the popular App weixin in China
• Goal
  • login once, run anywhere, anytime
  • Make life easier and let bot do something for us in backend

Features of Hubot-WeChat (WeChat Adapter)

• Basic functions as that in WeChat Web
  • Auto-reply text to group
  • Auto-reply media to group
  • Auto-reply to specific person (function is available but comment out)
• Auto-report status to maintainer
• A forever script to launch the hubot instance and mornintoring
• Aboundants of scripts for hubot
  • integrated with jenkins
  • integrated with turing robot
  • Lots of life information by querying the APIs provided from baidu api-store

Wechat Adapter Configuration

Basic Config

• The hubot needs a real WeChatID
• The hubot's WeChatID should be include in the group to be listened on for auto-reply
• The group/specific person should be save into that contact list

config.yaml

• A config.yaml is provided to set the configuration items

  • Those items most are for wechat login in Hubot-WeChat startup

• Get config items method

  • Login the wechat from browser, use the wechatId which is used for hubot
  • Capture data from webwxinit api from browser debug mode

• url

  • baseUrl -- wx/wx2
  • Wechat server has traffic distribution to WX/WX2 server dependent on hubot's WeChat ID

• Below data are needed and set into config.yaml apporiated fields

  • header
    • cookie
  • BaseRequest
    • Uin
    • Sid
    • Skey
    • DeviceId

• maintainerName

  • Please fill the maintainer's wechat name (the maintainer should be in hubot's wechat contact list)
  • Hubot will report its online status to maintainer in a configured interval

• webWxSyncInterval

  • To sync receiving message from WX server
  • Default: 1500 ms

• syncCheckInterval

  • It is the heartbeat to WX server
  • To trick WX server the login persion still on the web wechat
  • Default: 30s, it is same behavior in web wechat

• listenOnAllGroups

  • default value: true. Then hubot will listen on all the group where it is in

• listenGroupNameList

  • It is used to control hubot only listen on some group for auto reply

• Other config item: it's simple to know from its meaning and you can check the code for its usage

Design & Implementation Notes

• The problem
  • Scanning the QR code to login web wechat
  • No published official WeChat api interface
• Workaround for login
  • Need login manually by scanning the QR code once
  • Capture all the required data as hubot configuration(details in next slide)
• Shoot the trouble
  • Use chrome/firefox to analyze web WeChat API
  • Try its web APIs by curl
  • Analyze the parameters and what it is
  • Analyze the wxApp.js
• Notes:
  • The hubot wechat on the mobile side keeps online is preferred
  • Reason: WeChat server disconnects your hubot with websync failure after 3~4 days. But hubot works again once login mobile wechat app again.

The Adapter Software Hierachy

• Operations in our Wechat-Hubot

  • wxbot.coffee

• The coffeescript version's WxChat Web APIs

  • wxApi.coffee

• The http layer, including sync and async

  • httpclient.coffee

Integrate Adapter to Hubot

• Implement the needed methods of adapter

  • constructor

    • Getting the hubot robot

  • send

    • hubot sends out message to specific persion/group

  • reply

    • hubot replies message to specific persion/group

  • run

    • New a WxBot
    • Being called in hubot launching It is used to init the wechat groups information
    • Integrate to Hubot by calling

    @emit 'connected'
    

• Implement a callback to call hubot's receive method to get the incoming message

SDE

• Getting Started With Hubot on Windows/Unix-Like
• Backlog management
  • kanbanflow
• Version control
  • git
• IDE
  • Sublime
  • or WebStorm/Vim
• DevEnv
  • Nodejs and npm
  • Use npm install to get all the node modules
    • Inside greatwall, add option --registry=https://registry.npm.taobao.org
• Programming Language
  • coffeeScript
  • coffeelint to checkstyle

How to write Your Scripts?

• Please refer to the scirpts in repo
• Follow the coding style
• The msg in the scripts provides the http asycn function to get your data from open APIs

Test Your Script

• With shell adapter
• Use your WeChat ID to test

Contributor

• bumblebee team

  • Jeff Zhu
  • Yinsong Ma
  • Kasper Deng

• Shouxi Huang

TODO

• No much functions to be implemented, most are focus on scripting
• Unit test

Reference

• Hubot Official
• About WxChat Web API
• How to write your adapter?

License

• See the LICENSE file for license rights and limitations (MIT).