[CHAT] SimpleAutoReply v0.1 - Forget about answering noob questions! [953]

SimpleAutoReply - Forget about answering noob questions!
Version: v0.1
-Credits to xeology for the idea.

This is a pretty basic auto reply plugin which was made based on a request.
It'll look at player's chat messages and then if they match any of the messages it has replies for, it'll answer them (Currently in private).

Any requests, feedback and such is very welcome!

Features:
* Automatically answers messages based on a configuration file.
* Configurable messages/replies.
* Anti-spam system, with a configurable timeout time. - It'll only answer a message once every timeout seconds.
* Answers messages in private.
* Supports substitutions:

Code:

@player -> Instead of the player's name

* "Unlimited" amount of replies.

<Edit by Moderator: Redacted mediafire url>

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Ideas for future versions/TODO:
-Tell me what you think

Configurations:
* Broadcast answer to all players.
* Delete the message that asked the question.


Chat commands (Implement GroupManager/Permissions):
* reload config
* add reply
* remove reply
* edit reply


Features:
* Ignore people with some permission.

Changelog
Version 0.1 (30/03/2011) - Confirmed to work on build 560 and 602.
* Released

 

nice, i think i can use this, because i'm gonna set-up a complicated server
with all plugins like iConomy and such
i won't have to reply to questions like : "how do i buy somthing" and such

thanks !!!

 

Cool, was made exactly for that kind of stuff!
Please feel free to ask if you have trouble getting the message recognitions, etc. working. It's using regular expressions, so you can look that up. I'll be posting a more thorough guide tomorrow I believe. If needed that is

Please post any feedback, feature requests, etc.
I have a few ideas for:
Configurations:
Broadcast answer to all players.
Delete the message that asked the question.

Chat commands (Implement GroupManager/Permissions):
reload config
add reply
remove reply
edit reply

Features:
Ignore people with some permission.

What do you guys think?

 

well:

• Broadcast to all - more like: broadcast to all who haven't had the message yet
• delete the message that asked the question - yes absolulty or it will spam the chat
• reload - needed
• add reply - of course: playing minecraft... user asking something not in list... answering... adding to list...
• remove reply - well could be nice but i don't seem to have a reason to remove
• edit - typo fix/wrong answer fix
• ignore - nothing that bothers me in this

 

Broadcasting like that should be pretty possible - though it'll pop up to them after the timeout have passed.
Maybe a command to ignore these autoreply messages?
And ofcourse I'll probably be making that then

 

download link isnt working, why not use filedropper? it doesnt have 30 popups when you click the link-.-

 

iconomy is complicating ?

it is working, and its mediafire, ( no ) popups...

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

can you explain how to configure it? It looks nice but whatever I try doesnt seem to do anything...

 

It's working for me and other people

Nah, I believe that there's a lot players have to know, which might give a bunch of questions, which is why this is good

I barely get any popups with mediafire. I'm trying to see if I can find some other host though. Dunno what the other people use? - I looked at github, but that's a bigger process when I'm on a laptop

EDIT: And thanks for the Plugin Developer tag and releasing my plugin

Do you know how regex works?
Either way, you go to the /plugins/SimpleAutoReply/ folder and then open the config.yml
You keep the syntax it currently has, but you can replace and add items under the replies:
and you can configure a new timeout (in seconds) at the timeout: 30

So basically you change the 30 to whatever you want your timeout to be. 60 for a minute and 3600 for an hour.
Then you have the replies,
Here you keep the same order as the default ones added.
But you can change/add new ones. Making a line on the same column as the default one. (4 spaces)
call it something, it doesn't matter, just has to be unique.
Then you add a new line, 8 spaces in, write message: <your regex>
<your regex> can be something like ".*how.*register.*" which will fit anything that contains how and register in that order. So it'll match on How do I register?
then you add answer: <your answer>
which is what you want the server to print to the player.
answer: You register by going to www.somesite.com"

Example (open) Example (close)

Code:

timeout: 3600
replies:
    uniquekey:
        message: .*how.*register.*
        answer: You register by going to www.somesite.come
      money:
          message: .*how.*get.*money.*
          answer: You get money by killing monsters.
      coins:
          message: .*how.*get.*coins.*
          answer: You get coins by killing monsters.

I hope this explained well enough

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

Thanks! That clears it up!

 

I assume it wont work on CB 560? Will have to wait for the other plugins to update before i can try it if it doesnt.

 

Good

I believe it worked on 564, something like that, but I can't remember now, since an admin have removed the other build no. from the topic title
Please test it though, if you want to! And report back here

 

I love you sir for make my wishes come true :3
Thanks a lot

 

Cool Any feedback/ideas, please post them here

 

Hey i just want to say it works great on 560. Thank you sooo very much for this plugin, now i don't have to type things over and over and over again to new players who dont like reading signs.

 

Good to hear, thanks for clearing that!

 

This plugin looks amazing. I'm totally gonna use this.

 

Cool
Please report back with any ideas/bugs you find.

 

Hi Breeze, little offtopic but how do i send PMs on here? XD
Also didnt know you could do plugins, seems like it could be very useful depending on how flexible you can make it "understand" questions

 

Yeah, I can make plugins That's why I spoke to Mixxit about it

The questions/sentences it answers to are only limited to the users knowledge of RegEx (Regular Expressions) since that's what it looks for The ones I've entered are probably the second most basic form

 

plugin maker maby u could do like keywords or a set of words? like how, help, to build, etc

 

Please explain.
You define the questions/answers yourself in the configuration.

 

Please give me a static link to use with the CraftBukkitUpToDate plugin! Thank you

 

If I had a place to host it like that, I would!
I might be using dropbox, but I'll be looking into it a bit more when I've solved all the issues with my server regarding the 1.4 update

 

this is a great plugin, I tested and it works fine; but wont be using it until the rest of my plugins update

 

Hey Breezer, it doesn't work on 621.. i get:

21:48:46 [SEVERE] Could not load plugins\SimpleAutoReply.jar in plugins: null
org.bukkit.plugin.InvalidPluginException
Hope you fix it soon!

EDIT:
Apparantly i did something wrong,.. was working on CB 560 though, now only the default questions work. I will keep testing

Found the issue, the colon.. xD also thank you for making your plugin show where the error is on the console!

 

this plugin is awesome.

 

Eeeeh, it shows where the errors are? Damned bugs <.< Lol, guess you just managed to read a stacktrace

Thanks

 

Just to be clear, lol, does this need to have "how can i become op?" "how may i become a moderator?" "can i be staff?" in the config to answer all the versions of the same question?

 

Well, I believe that if you want to answer with the same answer, you should be able to do something like:

Code:

.*how.*become.*mod.*|.*can.*be.*staff.*

I'm not sure however... My server is currently offline, so I wont be able to test it.
Could you please write what build you're using my plugin on? I'd like to update the title.