Recently I created an IM BOT that works with GTalk, Yahoo Messenger, Windows Live and other popular instant messaging clients.
To create your own IM Bot you need to have some very basic programming skills. You can use any programming language, I prefer PHP. You also need to have web space to host your bot.
For example, I have created a Twitter Bot that can be used to tweet in your twitter account using any IM client.
If you like to write a personal IM bot, just follow these simple steps:
Step 1: Register at Imified
Step 2: Create your Bot which is just a simple script which resides on your webserver. It can be in any programming language.
Step 3: Copy the path of your script in the clipboard shown below.
Your Bot is ready to serve now.
The script I wrote is self-explanatory.
Just Add Tweetbot@bot.im in your IM client to try it.
//Twitter.PHP
require('TwitterAPI.php');
if($_REQUEST[('value'.($_REQUEST['step']-1))]=="reset")
{
echo " start all over again now ";
}
else if($_REQUEST[('value'.($_REQUEST['step']-1))]=="?")
{
echo " Hi, I am a Twitter Bot, you can tweet and see friend's timeline using me.
type 'reset' to start again at any stage.";}
else{
switch ($_REQUEST['step'])
{
case 1:
echo "Enter Twitter UserName:";
break;
case 2:
echo $_REQUEST['value1'];
echo ",Enter Your Password, dont worry I dont store your password:";
break;
case 3:
echo "Thankyou for submitting details
Type 'tweet' to post a tweet and 'friend' to see friend's timeline";
break;
case 4:
if (trim($_REQUEST['value3']," ")=="tweet")
{
echo "Enter Message to tweet";
}
else if($_REQUEST['value3']=="friend")
{
echo "I am working on this function, will publish it soon";
}
else
{
echo "enter correct choice ";
}
break;
case 5:
$result=tweet($_REQUEST['value1'], $_REQUEST['value2'], $_REQUEST['value4']);
echo $result;
}
}
No, This is not the only code you require. We need to use Twitter API as well, I have put that code in a seprate file.
You can make a number of Applications using different Open APIs
//TwitterAPI.php
function tweet($username,$password,$message)
{
// The twitter API address
$url = 'http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml';
// Set up and execute the curl process
$curl_handle = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL, "$url");
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 2);
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "status=$message");
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$username:$password");
$resultArray = curl_getinfo($curl_handle);
curl_close($curl_handle);
if($resultArray['http_code'] == "200")
{
$result="Yipee, Check your profile ";
}
else
{
$result="Error , Username or Password is not correct ";
}
return $result;
}
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Happy Coding!
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