Tool:Bridgebot

Toolforge tools

Description	A bot for bridging IRC and other chat platform channels
Keywords	irc, golang
Maintainer(s)	BryanDavis (View all)
Source code	https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge
License	Apache License 2.0
Issues	Open tasks · Report a bug
Admin log	Tools.bridgebot/SAL

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Bridgebot is a deployment of the FLOSS matterbridge software. It can be used to relay messages between multiple different chat systems. The current deployment in Toolforge is bridging various Wikimedia related Freenode IRC channels with similarly themed Telegram chats and channels.

Maintenance

The bot runs from Toolforge under the "bridgebot" account as a kubernetes pod.

---
kind: Deployment
apiVersion: apps/v1
metadata:
  name: bridgebot.bot
  namespace: tool-bridgebot
  labels:
    name: bridgebot.bot
    toolforge: tool
spec:
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      name: bridgebot.bot
      toolforge: tool
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        name: bridgebot.bot
        toolforge: tool
    spec:
      containers:
        - name: bot
          image: docker-registry.tools.wmflabs.org/toolforge-buster-sssd:latest
          command:
            - "/data/project/bridgebot/matterbridge"
            - "-debug"
            - "-conf"
            - "/data/project/bridgebot/matterbridge.toml"
          workingDir: /data/project/bridgebot
          env:
            - name: HOME
              value: /data/project/bridgebot
          imagePullPolicy: Always

$ ssh dev.tools.wmflabs.org
$ become bridgebot

:# Deploying
$ kubectl create --validate=true -f deployment.yaml

:# Quick restart (pod delete)
$ kubectl delete po/$(kubectl get pods | grep Running | awk '{print $1}')

:# "Full" restart (Deployment delete; Deployment create)
$ kubectl delete deploy/bridgebot.bot
$ kubectl create --validate=true -f deployment.yaml

:# Upgrading the golang binary
$ wget https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge/releases/download/v{$version}/matterbridge-{$version}-linux-64bit
$ chmod a+x matterbridge-{$version}-linux-64bit
$ rm matterbridge
$ ln -s matterbridge-{$version}-linux-64bit matterbridge
$ kubectl delete po/$(kubectl get pods | grep Running | awk '{print $1}')

Joining a new channel

Maintainers of the tool can configure the bot to join a new channel;

$ ssh login.tools.wmflabs.org
$ become bridgebot
$ vim matterbridge.toml
:# Add a new "[[gateway]]" section defining the gateway name and the channels to bridge
$ kubectl delete po/$(kubectl get pods | grep Running | awk '{print $1}')

Telegram

If one side of the bridge is Telegram you will need these things to be done:

1. Have an admin of the Telegram channel invite the "@wmtelegram_bot" user to the channel
2. Follow the log output of the bot: `kubectl logs -f $(kubectl get pods | grep Running | awk '{print $1}')`
3. Have someone in the Telegram channel talk to the bot
4. Collect the Telegram "Channel" id number from the DEBUG log output

   [85656] DEBUG telegram:     <= Message is config.Message{Text:"@wmtelegram_bot I need you to see this message so I can finish https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T258078", Channel:"-1001308089610", Username:"bd808", UserID:"419968011", Avatar:"https://tools-static.wmflabs.org/bridgebot/4a263e14/419968011.png", Account:"telegram.bridgebot", Event:"", Protocol:"", Gateway:"", ParentID:"", Timestamp:time.Time{wall:0x0, ext:0, loc:(*time.Location)(nil)}, ID:"86", Extra:map[string][]interface {}{}}

Discord

If one side of the bridge is Discord you will need these things to be done:

1. Have an admin of the Discord server invite the bot to their server using the bot's invite link

remotenickformat.tengo

A tengo script is used to do per-channel customization of nick formats used when cross-posting messages between services.

$HOME/remotenickformat.tengo

/**
 * The script will have the following global variables:
 * to modify: result
 * to read: channel, bridge, gateway, protocol, nick
 */

ret := "[" + protocol + "] <" + nick + "> "

if gateway == "ukwiki-discord-telegram" {
  protos := immutable({
    discord: "дс",
    telegram: "тг"
  })
  proto := protos[protocol]
  ret = "[" + (proto == undefined ? protocol : proto) + "] <" + nick + "> "

} else if gateway == "wikipedia-abstract-irc-telegram" {
  ret = "<" + nick + "> "

}

result = ret