Rocket.chat: Internal Hubot uses obsolete script repository

[wohali]

Rocket.Chat Version: 0.54.2
Running Instances: 1
DB Replicaset OpLog: Disabled
Node Version: v4.8.1

The Internal Hubot admin settings page says:

Please enter a comma separated list of scripts to load from https://github.com/github/hubot-scripts/tree/master/src/scripts

However, the top-level README for that repository reads:

DEPRECATED, see https://github.com/github/hubot-scripts/issues/1113 for details

which in turn says:

IMPORTANT: No longer accepting new scripts to this package, create external packages instead

Reading through the history, the hubot-scripts repo was already deprecated in 2015!

On top of this, many of the scripts don't even work anymore, not having been maintained for 3 years or more - see #5952 for details.

Please revisit how scripts can be added to the internal Hubot without using this deprecated (and mostly non-functional) repository.

[JSzaszvari]

Yes it has not been used for a very long time.

https://github.com/github/hubot-scripts/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

The scripts don't get loaded from that repo anymore they are loaded from
npmjs.com

On 10 Apr. 2017 3:49 pm, "Joan Touzet" [e-mail] wrote:

Rocket.Chat Version: 0.54.2
Running Instances: 1
DB Replicaset OpLog: Disabled
Node Version: v4.8.1

The Internal Hubot admin settings page says:

Please enter a comma separated list of scripts to load from
https://github.com/github/hubot-scripts/tree/master/src/scripts

However, the top-level README for that repository reads:

DEPRECATED, see github/hubot-scripts#1113
https://github.com/github/hubot-scripts/issues/1113 for details

which in turn says:

IMPORTANT: No longer accepting new scripts to this package, create
external packages instead

Reading through the history, the hubot-scripts repo was already deprecated
in 2015!

On top of this, many of the scripts don't even work anymore, not having
been maintained for 3 years or more - see #5952
https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/issues/5952 for details.

Please revisit how scripts can be added to the internal Hubot without
using this deprecated (and mostly non-functional) repository.

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[geekgonecrazy]

Yes currently it uses a preseeded folder of scripts compiled in.

We are working on resolving this. The issue here is we can't just let you specify any random script from npm. Because we won't be able.to handle the installation of the scripts.

It'll have to only point to scripts you've dropped into a folder.

We have an issue open for setting an external folder where you can add your own scripts

[wohali]

Is there a list of which scripts are in the preseeded folder anywhere?
The help text in the settings dialogue is definitely misleading at the
very least.

Can you point me to the ticket for the replacement setup as well?

Thanks for your responses!

[Rohlik]

Default scripts can be found here: rocketchat/programs/server/npm/node_modules/meteor/rocketchat_internal-hubot/node_modules/hubot-scripts/src/scripts/
So, if you want add new one, just put it there and activate in web http://your_chat/admin/InternalHubot.
But every RC upgrade will remove your custom scripts!

[wohali]

Thanks - unfortunately I deploy using Docker so I won't be able to leverage this approach easily. And it still doesn't show me what the default list of scripts is from anywhere in this repo, which is what I was looking for.

[JSzaszvari]

Mount a local folder on the docker host/storage into

/app/bundle/programs/server/npm/node_modules/meteor/rocketchat_internal-hubot/node_modules/hubot-scripts/src/scripts/

Then you can just pop your choice of scripts in there the scripts in there and they wont go anywhere on upgrades.

[wemu]

Hello

a lot of the packaged hubot scripts would already be enough for a lot of things.

are there plans to update at least those? I've tried a few and a lot of them don't do anything or require environment settings (bing api key for a deprecated api) that are unclear to me where to put them.

there are a lot of scripts. my main focus was search, images, youtube, maps (google or bing). what people use the most :)

[JSzaszvari]

@wemu the environment variables are set in the same place you set MONGO_URL, ROOT_URL and the PORT url at the time of deployment / startup

[wemu]

ah I see. Thanks! I'll try some more of the scripts - quite fun 👍
yet working versions for google and google images would be much cooler :D

[ghost]

I have question, too.
How can I make internal hubot working?
I have clean install of rocket chat, I have enabled Internal Hubot in settings and installed with npm install -g hubot-rocketchat
rocket.cat user seems to be online, and I have that in my log files:
[Wed May 10 2017 10:59:16 GMT+0000 (UTC)] WARNING A script has tried registering a HTTP route while the HTTP server is disabled with --disabled-httpd. Loaded hubot-help/src/help.coffee Loaded hello.coffee Loaded zen.coffee Loaded megusta.coffee
Looks like scripts are being loaded.
But if I am writing, for example, "hello" to rocket.cat user, it doesn`t respond.

[Rohlik]

@teamfighter Internal hubot is integrated, so you don't need install anything after you install RC.

[ghost]

@rohlik
That s great, but why it is not working?

[wemu]

is the bot invited to the channel? "bot help" does nothing? is the bot using a username that exists in the users list? does that user have proper permissions?
all I had to do was send a @rocket.cat hello to get the bot into the channel to interact with.

[ghost]

@wemu
Thanks! It started working after I have invited bot to channel)

[Rohlik]

Is this already resolved with https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/pull/7095 ?