signal-cli-bot

A simple python3 script based bot for building your own signal channel using signal-cli. It was built for PocketPC.ch.

It depend on signal-cli and uses it as a dbus service. This project is linked to signal-cli-newschannel and serves the later with the list of subscribers.

Installation and Usgae

1. First, install dependencies sudo apt-get update;sudo apt-get install python3 python3-pip sudo pip install sqlite3 pprint arrow SystemBus GLib
2. and then signal-cli git clone https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli and follow the readme of signal-cli or use directly InstallSignalEN.py
3. Configure signal-cli with your phone number.
4. Customize the python script yj_signalbot_regular.py according to your needs
5. Optional: Install the truster script yj_trustall_subscribers.py in crontab (crontab -l 2>/dev/null; echo "4 */12 * * * screen -dRS trustall /absolute/path/to/yj_trustall_subscribers.py ") | crontab - This is done because some subscribers might change their secrets meanhile and then our bot runs into errors.
6. Run the script, e.g. in a screen session: screen -dmS signal-bot python3 yj_signalbot_regular.py

Todos and Future Plans

• encrypt the SQlite and enable other db drivers
• clean the code, oop n stuff
• when signal-cli enables TRUST command via dbus, change this from shell command in yj_trustall_subscribers.py
• parameterisation of the bot
• Use NLP for the chatbot to make it cooler