The Bots standard commands are in ```commands.sh``` file. You must not add your commands to 'commands.sh', instead place them in ```mycommands.sh```, there you also find examples how to process messages and send out text. See [Best practices](5_practice.md) for more information.
Once you're done with editing 'mycommands.sh' start the Bot with ```./bashbot.sh start```.
To stop the Bot run ```./bashbot.sh kill```
If some thing doesn't work as it should, you can debug with ```./bashbot.sh startbot DEBUG``` where DEBUG can be 'debug', 'xdebug' or 'xdebugx'.
See [Bashbot Development](7_develop.md) for more information.
To use the functions provided in this script in other scripts simply source bashbot: ```source bashbot.sh```
Have FUN!
## Managing your own Bot
#### Note: running bashbot as root is highly danger and not recommended. See Expert use.
### Start / Stop
Start or Stop your Bot use the following commands:
```bash
./bashbot.sh start
```
```bash
./bashbot.sh kill
```
### User count
To count the total number of users that ever used the bot run the following command:
```bash
./bashbot.sh count
```
### Sending broadcasts to all users
To send a broadcast to all of users that ever used the bot run the following command:
```bash
./bashbot.sh broadcast "Hey! I just wanted to let you know that the bot's been updated!"
```
## Recieve data
Evertime a Message is recieved, you can read incoming data using the following variables:
### Regular Messages
* ```${MESSAGE}```: Current message
* ```${MESSAGE[ID]}```: ID of current message
* ```$CAPTION```: Captions
* ```$REPLYTO```: Original message wich was replied to
* ```$USER```: This array contains the First name, last name, username and user id of the sender of the current message.
* ```${USER[ID]}```: User id
* ```${USER[FIRST_NAME]}```: User's first name
* ```${USER[LAST_NAME]}```: User's last name
* ```${USER[USERNAME]}```: Username
* ```$CHAT```: This array contains the First name, last name, username, title and user id of the chat of the current message.
* ```${CHAT[ID]}```: Chat id
* ```${CHAT[FIRST_NAME]}```: Chat's first name
* ```${CHAT[LAST_NAME]}```: Chat's last name
* ```${CHAT[USERNAME]}```: Username
* ```${CHAT[TITLE]}```: Title
* ```${CHAT[TYPE]}```: Type
* ```${CHAT[ALL_MEMBERS_ARE_ADMINISTRATORS]}```: All members are administrators (true if true)
* ```$REPLYTO```: This array contains the First name, last name, username and user id of the ORIGINAL sender of the message REPLIED to.
* ```${REPLYTO[ID]}```: ID of message wich was replied to
* ```${REPLYTO[UID]}```: Original user's id
* ```${REPLYTO[FIRST_NAME]}```: Original user's first name
* ```${REPLYTO[LAST_NAME]}```: Original user's' last name
* ```${REPLYTO[USERNAME]}```: Original user's username
* ```$FORWARD```: This array contains the First name, last name, username and user id of the ORIGINAL sender of the FORWARDED message.
* ```${FORWARD[ID]}```: Same as MESSAGE[ID] if message is forwarded
* ```${FORWARD[UID]}```: Original user's id
* ```${FORWARD[FIRST_NAME]}```: Original user's first name
* ```${FORWARD[LAST_NAME]}```: Original user's' last name
* ```${FORWARD[USERNAME]}```: Original user's username
* ```$URLS```: This array contains documents, audio files, voice recordings and stickers as URL.
* ```${URLS[AUDIO]}```: Audio files
* ```${URLS[VIDEO]}```: Videos
* ```${URLS[PHOTO]}```: Photos (maximum quality)
* ```${URLS[VOICE]}```: Voice recordings
* ```${URLS[STICKER]}```: Stickers
* ```${URLS[DOCUMENT]}```: Any other file
* ```$CONTACT```: This array contains info about contacts sent in a chat.
* ```${CONTACT[ID]}```: User id
* ```${CONTACT[NUMBER]}```: Phone number
* ```${CONTACT[FIRST_NAME]}```: First name
* ```${CONTACT[LAST_NAME]}```: Last name
* ```${CONTACT[VCARD]}```: User's complete Vcard
* ```$LOCATION```: This array contains info about locations sent in a chat.
* ```${LOCATION[LONGITUDE]}```: Longitude
* ```${LOCATION[LATITUDE]}```: Latitude
* ```$VENUE```: This array contains info about venue (a place) sent in a chat.
* ```${VENUE[TITLE]}```: Name of the place
* ```${VENUE[ADDRESS]}```: Address of the place
* ```${VENUE[LONGITUDE]}```: Longitude
* ```${VENUE[LATITUDE]}```: Latitude
* ```${VENUE[FOURSQUARE]}```: Fouresquare ID
### Inline queries
Evertime a Message is recieved, you can read incoming data using the following variables:
* ```${iQUERY}```: Current inline query
* ```$iQUERY```: This array contains the ID, First name, last name, username and user id of the sender of the current inline query.
* ```${iQUERY[ID]}```: Inline query ID
* ```${iQUERY[USER_ID]}```: User's id
* ```${iQUERY[FIRST_NAME]}```: User's first name
* ```${iQUERY[LAST_NAME]}```: User's last name
## Usage of bashbot functions
#### sending messages
To send messages use the ```send_xxx_message``` functions.
To send regular text without any markdown use:
```bash
send_text_message "${CHAT[ID]}" "lol"
```
To send text with markdown:
```bash
send_markdown_message "${CHAT[ID]}" "lol *bold*"
```
To send text with html:
```bash
send_html_message "${CHAT[ID]}" "lol <b>bold</b>"
```
To forward messages use the ```forward``` function:
```bash
forward "${CHAT[ID]}" "from_chat_id" "message_id"
```
If your Bot is Admin in a Chat you can delete every message, if not you can delete only your messages.
To delete a message with a known ${MESSAGE[ID]} you can simple use:
```bash
delete_message "${CHAT[ID]}" "${MESSAGE[ID]}"
```
#### send_message
In addition there is a universal send_massage function which can output any type of message.
This function is used to process output from external scrips like interactive chats or background jobs.
**For safety and performance reasons I recommend to use send_xxxx_message functions above for sending messages**
```bash
send_message "${CHAT[ID]}" "lol"
```
To send html or markdown put the following strings before the text, depending on the parsing mode you want to enable:
This function also allows a third parameter that disables additional function parsing (for safety use this when reprinting user input):
```bash
send_message "${CHAT[ID]}" "lol" "safe"
```
**See also [Interactive chats](3_advanced.md#Interactive-Chats)**
#### Send files, locations, keyboards.
To send images, videos, voice files, photos etc. use the ```send_photo``` function (remember to change the safety Regex @ line 14 of command.sh to allow sending files only from certain directories):
To send a chat action use the ```send_action``` function.
Allowed values: typing for text messages, upload_photo for photos, record_video or upload_video for videos, record_audio or upload_audio for audio files, upload_document for general files, find_location for locations.
```bash
send_action "${CHAT[ID]}" "action"
```
**See also [Bashbot function reference](6_reference.md#Interactive_Chats)**
