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My First IM Bot

Posted on 04. Oct, 2008 by Nikhil Sheth in Google, Knowledge

Recently I was came across an article which was about how to create IM bots. It was much easier than I thought.

For this example, I have created a dummy bot called “nikhil”. Here is what you need to do use this bot:

-Add nikhil@bot.im to you gtalk list.
-Type php:Any_Php_Command(ex:php:implode) for brief function description or facts for random fatcs or trends for google trends.

This was a very basic bot but the possibilities are endless.

To get started, all you need to know are some very basic programming skills (any language would do) and web space to host your “bot”.

If you like to write a personal IM bot, just follow these simple steps:

Step 1: Go to imified.com and request an invite. You should also give your bot a decent name because you can have just one bot per email address.

Step 2. An email with a secret key should arrive in your Inbox the next minute. Copy that key to the clipboard and go here to redeem that key.

Step 3. Now it’s time to create a bot which is actually a simple script that resides on your public web server. It could be in PHP, Perl, Python or any other language. More here.

Step 4: Once your script is ready, put it somewhere on your web server and copy the full URI to the clipboard.

Now login to your imified account, paste the script URL and add that im bot your friends list. That’s it.

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