gifme

NOTE: this bot has only been tested, and is assumed to only work, using SQLite as the plugin database.

a maubot plugin that saves gifs, memes, or optionally anything else someone has posted, associate tags with it, and then return it when those tags are called. written because frankly, giphy has gone downhill and a private collection is more reliable when it comes to a community's expectations of what the reaction should be.

add a giphy api key or a tenor api (v2 only!) api key to the config for fallback to these external gif libraries.

installation

install like any other maubot plugin: either create a .zip file of this repository and upload it, or use mbc build commands to generate and upload a package to your maubot server.

commands

!gifme <phrase> will make the bot respond with a randomly selected gif that matches that phrase. optionally, if no entries have been stored for that phrase, will fall back to posting something from a giphy or tenor search.

!gifme giphy <phrase> will skip looking up internally and just go right to returning a result from giphy. this enables you to force fallback without needing to set the plugin to do so all the time.

!gifme tenor <phrase> will skip looking up internally and just go right to returning a result from tenor. this enables you to force fallback without needing to set the plugin to do so all the time.

!gifme save <phrase> should be used in reply to a message in order to save it to the database and tag it with the phrase or words given. tags are stored as text entries in the sqlite database, and returned with full-text search queries so no need to get too crazy about quotes or separation. NOTE: if the image is already stored in the database the command will update the tags for the existing image, minus any duplicate words. This effectively enables you to add more tags to an entry.

alternatively, you can automatically save a message to the database using either its filename or message contents as tags by using the 💾 emoji reaction on the message!

!gifme tags should be used in a reply to a message sent by the bot to show all tags associated with the image.

config

command_aliases: a list of aliases the command should respond to. the first entry will be used as the default command, but all commands will elicit a bot response. may be useful if you want it to act as a drop-in replacement for a different command that people are already used to, like giphy.

allow_fallback: enables the ability for gifme to return a result from either giphy or tenor if no suitable option is found internally. requires that a giphy or tenor api key is added, otherwise fallback will return an error. set to either giphy or tenor. leave blank if you want to disallow fallback behavior.

fallback_threshold: the number of results that need to be returned from the internal database before falling back to a giphy search. for example, if set to 2, there must be at least two entries in the internal database returned, and if there are not the bot will search giphy. set to 0 to force fallback at all times and effectively make the bot function purely as a giphy bot. default value is 1, so if there is something in your database, it will be returned otherwise fallback.

giphy_api_key: an api key to authenticate against the giphy api endpoint. optional, only used for fallback behavior.

tenor_api_key: an api key to authenticate against the tenor api endpoint. optional, only used for fallback behavior.

allow_non_files: whether to enable storing and returning messages which are not file-uploads. this effectively enables the bot to function as a message bookmark system, which may be useful in scenarios where the same message is regularly posted and you want a shortcut to it, you want to return someone's message out-of-context for comedic purposes, etc. this will return the message as quoted text, with the original sender's matrix ID and the date as the source. set to either true or false. WARNING! this will store the content of the message as plain-text in the database, as well as the sender of that message, even for messages sent in encrypted rooms. DO NOT ENABLE THIS IF YOU ARE CONCERNED ABOUT PRIVACY.

restrict_users: whether to restrict tagging and storing permissions to a list of users. set to either true or false.

allowed_users: list of users who should be allowed to save and tag messages. optional, ignored if restrict_users is set to false. set to a yaml list ([]).