Python class to easily develop a simple Telethon style chatbot for the LXMF protocol.

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

• Instantiate the class with a name for the bot as parameter.
  • Two additional options the class takes as parameters are announce to define the announce interval in seconds (defaults to 360) and an announce_immediately boolean to define whether the bot should announce itself immediately after instantiation or not (defaults to False)
• Use the received decorator to define functions for parsing received messages
• Use the <instance>.send(recipient_hash, message) or msg.reply(message) methods to send messages
• Launch the bot using the run method

Functions decorated by received have access to a msg parameter that has the following content:

• msg.sender : the sender hash address
• msg.content: the received message as utf-8 string
• msg.reply : function that takes a string parameter and sends it as reply to the sender
• msg.lxmf : the complete LXMessage object for more complex parsing

Example of a bot that echos a message back to the sender:

from lxmfbot import LXMFBot
bot = LXMFBot("NodeBot")
@bot.received
def echo_msg(msg):
    msg.reply(msg.content)
bot.run()

The bots' identity and announce file location