hubot-keybase

Hubot adapter for Keybase Chat.

Building a bot

mkdir mybot
cd mybot
yo hubot # choose the "keybase" adapter
# Set the desired environment variables
./bin/hubot -a keybase

Configuration

All of hubot-keybase configuration is done using environment variables.

In local development, the following can be set in an .env file. Using that approach in production is not recommended, as paper keys should be kept a secret.

Env variable	Description
KB_USERNAME*	If passed, a new Keybase service will be spawned using the passed username.
KB_PAPERKEY*	If passed, a new Keybase service will be spawned using the passed paper key.
KB_UNFURL_MODE	If set, unfurling mode will be changed to the passed value.

* If you don't set either KB_USERNAME or KB_PAPERKEY the adapter will try to attach to an already running Keybase service. This might be desirable if you require support for features such as exploding messages.

Unfurling

In Keybase, unfurling means generating previews for links that you're sending in chat messages. If the mode is set to always or the domain in the URL is present on the whitelist (which is not configurable using hubot-keybase), the Keybase service will automatically send a preview to the message recipient in a background chat channel.

This is incredibly useful for all sorts of Hubot plugins, as nearly every single script expects the chat software to automatically unfurl links. That being said, this feature also has quite a few caveats, most importantly it might leak the IP address of the server running Hubot.