Wechaty
Connecting ChatBots.
Wechaty is a Bot Framework for Wechat Personal Account which can help you create a bot in 6 lines of javascript by easy to use API, with cross-platform support include Linux, Windows, Darwin(OSX/Mac) and Docker.
- :octocat: https://github.com/chatie/wechaty
:beetle: https://github.com/chatie/wechaty/issues
:book: https://github.com/chatie/wechaty/wiki
:whale: https://hub.docker.com/r/zixia/wechaty
Voice of the Developer
“Wechaty is a great solution, I believe there would be much more users recognize it.” link
– @Gcaufy, Tencent“The best wechat SDK I have seen in Github!” link
– @JasLin, BotWave CTO“Wechaty简单的接口…和Docker化的封装…绝对是一个不错的选择” link
– @shevyan, Ghost Cloud CEO“Wechaty is great.” link
– @Samurais, SnapLingo Director of Engineering“最好的微信开发库” link
– @Jarvis, Baidu Developer“Wechaty让运营人员更多的时间思考如何进行活动策划、留存用户，商业变现” link
– @lijiarui, Orange Interactive CEO.“太好用，好用的想哭” – @xinbenlv, Google Engineer, HaoShiYou.org Founder
“Wechaty library fantastic!” link - @ccaapton
“it’s quite cool!” link - @ak5
“Thanks for great SDK” link - @naishstar
“Your docker solution is awesome!” link - @ax4
The World’s Shortest ChatBot Code: 6 lines of JavaScript
const { Wechaty } = require('wechaty')
Wechaty.instance() // Singleton
.on('scan', (url, code) => console.log(`Scan QR Code to login: ${code}\n${url}`))
.on('login', user => console.log(`User ${user} logined`))
.on('message', message => console.log(`Message: ${message}`))
.init()
Notice: Wechaty requires Node.js version >= 6.9.0
This bot can log all message to console.
You can find more example from Wiki and Example Directory.
Getting Started
A Great Live Coding Tutorial
The above 10 minutes video tutorial is a good start point if you are new to Wechaty.
Run
Let’s say, you have saved the above six lines javascript example to mybot.js.
We have two options to run wechaty:
- Docker
- NPM
Docker
The best practice to use Wechaty is run by docker, becasue it’s not only the most easy way to get start, but also protect you out of the troubles of dependencies problems.
$ docker run -ti --rm --volume="$(pwd)":/bot zixia/wechaty mybot.js
Wechaty Docker support to run TypeScript directly as well: just write in TypeScript and save to
mybot.ts.
Get to know more about Wechaty Docker at Wiki:Docker.
NPM
Get to know more about NPM at Wiki:NPM
Find a Good Server
The best practice for runing Wechaty Docker/NPM is using a VPS(Virtual Private Server) outside of China, which can save you hours of time because npm install and docker pull will run smoothly without any problem.
The following VPS providers is used by ourselves, they worked perfectly in production. You can use the following link to get one in minutes, and also do this can support Wechaty because you are refered by us.
| Location | Price | Ram | Payment | Provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singapore | $5 | 512MB | Paypal | DigitalOcean |
| Japan | $5 | 1GB | Paypal | Linode |
| Korea | $10 | 1GB | Alipay, Paypal | Netdedi |
API Reference
Wechaty Event
- scan Emit when the bot needs to show you a QR Code for scanning
- login Emit when bot login full successful.
- logout Emit when bot detected log out.
- message Emit when there’s a new message.
- error Emit when there’s an error occurred.
- friend Emit when got a new friend request, or friendship is confirmed.
- room-join Emit when someone join the room
- room-leave Emit when someone leave the room
- room-topic Emit when someone change the room’s topic
Wechaty
- instance(setting: PuppetSetting): Promise<Wechaty> get the bot instance
- init(): Promise<void> Initialize the bot
- send(message: Message): Promise<void> send a message
- say(content: string): Promise<void> send message to filehelper, just for logging/reporting usage for your convenience
Message
- from():Contact get the sender from a message
- from(contact:Contact):void set a sender to the message
- to():Contact get the destination of the message
- to(contact:Contact):void set the destination as contact for the message
- content():string get the content of the message
- content(content:string):string set the content for the message
- room():Room|null get the room from a message.
- room(room:Room):void set the room for a message.
- type():MsgType get the type of a Message.
- say(content:string):Promise reply a message to the sender.
- ready():Promise confirm get all the data needed, will be resolved when all message data is ready.
- self():boolean check if a message is sent by self
Contact
- name():string get name from a contact
- remark():string get remark name from a contact
- remark(remark:string):Promise set remark name to a contact
- weixin():string get weixin id from a contact
- star():boolean true for star friend, false for no star friend
- ready():Promise confirm get all the contact data needed, will be resolved when all data is ready
- say(content:string):Promise say content to a contact
Room
- say(content:string,replyTo:Contact|ContactArray):Promise say content inside Room.
- ready():Promise confirm get all the data needed, will be resolved when all data is ready
- refresh():Promise reload data for Room
Room Event
- join Emit when someone join the room
- leave Emit when someone leave the room
- topic Emit when someone change the room topic
FriendRequest
- hello:string get content from friendrequest
- accept():Promise accept the friendrequest
- send(contact:Contact,hello:string):Promise send a new friend request
Test
Wechaty use AVA for unit testing
To test Wechaty, run:
npm test
Get to know more about test from Wiki:Test
Release Notes
- Latest Release(All releases here)
- Changelog
Powered By Wechaty
Wechaty Badge
Get embed html/markdown code from Wiki:PoweredByWechaty
Projects Use Wechaty
- chatie.io ChatBot Portal Manager for Wechaty
Know more about Projects Use Wechaty at Wiki:PoweredByWechaty
Contributing
Howto contribute
Contributions in any form are highly encouraged and welcome! Be it new or improved presets, optimized streaming code or just some cleanup. So start forking!
Code Contributions
If you want to add new features or change the API, please submit an issue first to make sure no one else is already working on the same thing and discuss the implementation and API details with maintainers and users by creating an issue. When everything is settled down, you can submit a pull request.
When fixing bugs, you can directly submit a pull request.
Make sure to add tests for your features and bugfixes and update the documentation (see below) before submitting your code!
Documentation Contributions
You can directly submit pull requests for documentation changes.
Main Contributors
Join Wechaty Developers’ Community
Wechaty is used in many ChatBot projects by hundreds of developers. If you want to talk with other developers, just scan the following QR Code in WeChat with secret code wechaty, you can join our Wechaty Developers’ Home at once.
Scan now, because other Wechaty developers want to talk with you too! (secret code: wechaty)
See Also
Todo
- [ ] Use Dependency Injection for FriendRequest(etc)
- [ ] Use Observable for Throttle API Call Rate with Server
- [ ] Generating Documentation for TypeScript Projects
Documentation
In order to sync the doc with the lastest code for best, Wechaty use jsdoc to descript API, and use jsdoc-to-markdown to generate markdown format document to docs directory.
My Story
My daily life/work depends on too much chat on wechat. * I almost have 14,000 wechat friends in May 2014, before wechat restricts a total number of friends to 5,000. * I almost have 400 wechat rooms that most of them have more than 400 members.
Can you image that? I’m dying…
So a tireless bot working for me 24x7 on wechat, monitoring/filtering the most important message is badly needed. For example highlights discussion which contains the KEYWORDS which I want to follow up(especially in a noisy room). ;-)
At last, It’s built for my personal study purpose of Automatically Testing.
Author
Zhuohuan LI [email protected] (http://linkedin.com/in/zixia)
Copyright & License
- Code & Docs 2016-2017© zixia
- Code released under the ISC license
- Docs released under Creative Commons
