George the Dev Bot

George is a lightweight JavaScript-based chatbot designed for the Stack Exchange chat network. The goal is to eventually produce a bot that is capable of looking up nearly anything by being asked simple English questions.

Usage Instructions

In order to use the bot, you will need an active account on the Stack Exchange network with enough reputation to use chat. You will also need PhantomJS installed. (PhantomJS 2.0+ is currently required.)

1. Copy the config.js.default to config.js

2. Open config.js and enter the authentication information

3. Run PhantomJS with the following command:

    phantomjs --ssl-protocol=any --load-images=false bot.js
   

Contributions

We are happy to accept contributions of new code providing the following criteria are met:

1. the new code should be technically correct (no security issues, etc.)
2. the new code should provide a useful feature
3. the new code may not contain any profanity

Pull requests to fix bugs or tweak some of the regular expressions are welcome as well.