Script Actions

In order to maximize the flexibility of the bot you can trigger external scripts / commands in rules. These scripts are provided with extensive data to act on.

Your command will get a JSON object passed through stdin you can parse to gain details about the message. It is expected to yield an array of actions on stdout and exit with status 0. If it does not the action will be marked failed. In case you need to output debug output you can use stderr which is directly piped to the bots stderr.

This is an example input you might get on stdin:

{
  "badges": {
    "glhf-pledge": 1,
    "moderator": 1
  },
  "channel": "#tezrian",
  "message": "!test",
  "tags": {
    "badge-info": "",
    "badges": "moderator/1,glhf-pledge/1",
    "client-nonce": "6801c82a341f728dbbaad87ef30eae49",
    "color": "#A72920",
    "display-name": "Luziferus",
    "emotes": "",
    "flags": "",
    "id": "dca06466-3741-4b22-8339-4cb5b07a02cc",
    "mod": "1",
    "room-id": "485884564",
    "subscriber": "0",
    "tmi-sent-ts": "1610313040489",
    "turbo": "0",
    "user-id": "69699328",
    "user-type": "mod"
  },
  "username": "luziferus"
}

The example was dumped using this action:

  - actions:
    - type: script
      attributes:
        command: [/usr/bin/bash, -c, "jq . >&2"]
    match_channels: ['#tezrian']
    match_message: '^!test'