I had an issue when porting the bot to C# (this may only happen with newer websocket protocol drafts). If you have a bot that can switch between rooms without shutting down and starting up, it is important to send turntable the disconnect command so that they know to disconnect the current connection and not a new one on a different chat server.

Before after deregistering from the room, send: m10mdisconnect

This will cause the server to close its connection with the client so you can connect to a different chat server for a different room.

Can we get a "end song" event added to the API ? I want to have the ability to total awesomes, lames before the new song message gets displayed on the TT room

I know how to get my own userid, but how do you get a troll's userid? Right now I'm blacklisting the username, which can be changed. Thanks.

looking to add some scrobble function, any experience with that alain?

downloaded new code for tt fix thats going to happen and when I ran my bot script it faild with this

node.js:134
throw e; // process.nextTick error, or 'error' event on first tick
^
TypeError: Cannot call method 'send' of undefined
at [object Object]._send (exmaple.com/uberbot/bot/node_modules/ttapi/bot.js:299:12)
at [object Object].bootUser (exmaple.com/uberbot/bot/node_modules/ttapi/bot.js:468:9)
at [object Object].startAPI (exmaple.com/uberbot/bot/node_modules/uberbot/uberbot.js:941:14)
at Object. (exmaple.com/uberbot/bot/marvin-mixxx.js:220:6)
at Module._compile (module.js:407:26)
at Object..js (module.js:413:10)
at Module.load (module.js:339:31)
at Function._load (module.js:298:12)
at Array. (module.js:426:10)
at EventEmitter._tickCallback (node.js:126:26)

Hi,
This is not an issue, I just coudlnt' find a place to post it.

When creating the Bot, it takes in Auth, i see on the bottom of the examples it has
var AUTH = 'auth+live+xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx';

so what is auth exactly? what do I assign to it?

thanks!
mina

I am trying to run the following code to clear a bot's entire playlist.

This doesn't clear all the songs out though. It will only clear a couple every time it is run.

bot.playlistAll(function (data) {
for(var i = 0; i < data.list.length; i++)
bot.playlistRemove();
});

Is there a way to make the bot automatically reconnect to turntable if its internet connection goes down temporarily? I run a bot off my home connection, and occasionally it'll go down, maybe for just a few minutes, but when this happens of course the bot leaves turntable, and the only way I can see to have it reconnect is to restart the bot.

My bot is running on my ubuntu box, and I have it set up with an init script so it does automatically restart if it crashes, but this doesn't apply when just losing its internet connection.

Anyone else having trouble getting their bot to connect this morning? In debug mode mine can get as far as seeing his own fan userids, and getting presence updates but he does not appear in the room. my js hasn't changed since last night when it was working. I hope TT didn't change anything that would break Alains API!

Does a bot need a particular playlist name to be able to DJ? Might be nice to update the readme/wiki with that detail if somebody knows it. I'm creating a Hubot (http://github.com/github/hubot) adapter using your library and it'd be awesome to be able to make the bot play music.

I'm not getting any data for endsong. When I print the value of data, i.e.:

bot.on('endsong', function (data) {
console.log(data);
});

I just get "undefined".

Do we know what is causing this? AFAIK, I'm using the latest version.

Not really an "issue", more of a question - I've got a stats site that records plays, and was wondering if anyone has figured out how to replicate the "add to queue" functionality to a website, assuming you have the songId. Can it be done via JavaScript?

I apologize in advance if this too elementary a questino, but as a student of js, I was pulling my hair out about this all weekend. I want to take the JSON returned by a get request and pipe one of the returned lines to bot.speak, but I'm having a really hard time wiring it up. I installed the request module, and I think it's returning data, but the best I can do is to get the bot to speak "[object Object]".

Can a kind soul help me out?

I may or may not be the only person who has this problem, but I have 2 bots set up and each goes offline PM-wise so that PM commands cannot be carried out. It usually happens during periods of higher activity in the room however, the computer that they are running off of is decent and relatively new. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

~ LSK

I was looking at the example for afk user list, but Im not sure how to use it to keep track of the ammount of time a DJ has been afk or how many songs he has played. Can someone help me with this?

I see the example tracks the time for everyone, but not sure how to get it to.. remove dj after 20minutes afk or 5 songs. something like that.

Any help would be GREATLY APPRECIATED , thank you much for all this information too.

Feature request, I believe.

Wondering if it's possible for the bot to find the room ID that a certain user might be in? Was hoping for something like a findUser() method that would return a roomID that I could then use to register the bot in that room.

Feature request:

Just wondering if the data provided when the bot enters a room is able to provide the current number of snags? I don't currently see that in the data returned:
https://github.com/alaingilbert/Turntable-API/blob/master/turntable_data/room_infos.js

didn't know if it was available for you to return through the API or not. (my guess is NO, but figured I'd ask!)

My bot seems to have stopped working after TT did their update this morning. I've updated with your latest changes to the API (as of yesterday). Should this be working at the moment, or are there more changes needed after the update this morning?

Looks like the code is wrong in Bot.prototype.roomRegister. Why is the callback being sent from within an anonymous function?

this.callback = function () {
var rq = { api: 'room.register', roomid: roomId };
self._send(rq, callback);
};

I tried just having it execute the code inside (by commenting out the first and last line from the above), but I end up getting an uncaught exception (TypeError: Cannot read property 'metadata' of undefined). Also, adding code inside that anonymous function DOES get fired, but for some reason the callback itself doesn't seem to.

I'm using
bot.roomRegister(ROOMID, function(result) {
console.log("Registered: ", result);
});

But the "Registered: " ( + result) never gets logged.

For some reason the method I have been using to add songs to my bot's queue is no longer working. I haven't changed anything on it so I am not sure why it suddenly stopped. I can return the songID and index in the console but it just won't let me add. Below is my code...

if (data.text.match(/^*add$/)) {
bot.roomInfo(true, function(data) {
var newSong = data.room.metadata.current_song._id;
var newSongName = songName = data.room.metadata.current_song.metadata.song;
var newArtist = artist = data.room.metadata.current_song.metadata.artist;
bot.playlistAdd(newSong, plLength);
console.log(newSong, plLength);
plLength++;
bot.vote('up');
bot.speak('I can now play "'+newSongName+'" by '+newArtist+' for you.');
});
}

I want to reorder the playlist after adding a song, but need to know the length of the playlist.
playlistAdd() doesn't return any helpful info about the playlist.
playlistAll() just returns an api error:

bot.playlistAll(function(data) {console.log(data); } );
{ msgid: 3, err: 'api error (1)', success: false }

Am I missing something?
Thanks!

I have change the profile data of my bot just like the example

bot.modifyProfile({ website:'http://ttdashboard.com/', about:'My bot.' }, callback);

and then realized that we didn't want any data in the block about. then realized if I leave it blank then it will use the previous value so I am wondering how to remove it ?

thanks
mcgrailm

The ruby gem is not loadable via the standard require 'ttapi', because the gem source contains no file called ttapi.rb

I'm having an issue where my bot is dissapearing from the room but not showing any signs of crashing.
I'm suspecting this has to do with the bot timing out or something along those lines but the bot doesn't seem to crash.

I've tried the bot on Nodejitsu and on my personal computer and when the bot dissapears, both my computer and Nodejitsu tells me the bot is running and no errors appear.

Here's what I'm using to initialize the bot.

//Main Initilization
var TTAPI   = require('ttapi');
var AUTH   = 'authhere';
var USERID = 'useridhere';
var ROOMID = 'roomidhere';

var bot = new TTAPI(AUTH, USERID, ROOMID);

//Required for Nodejitsu
bot.listen(8080, '127.0.0.1');

I like the bookmarklet, but how do you close it when you are done using it?

bot.stalk([userid], function(data){console.log('data.roomId: '+data.roomId);})

When calling this code while the [userid] is a mobile user, data.roomId is undefined. it appears that the data object either doesn't get returned or is different in structure.

anyone else come across this, or at least confirm this is true?

The bookmarklet gets hidden behind the main container in some cases (i.e. when using a plugin that shifts the main window left). Just add z-index: 20000 to the CSS and it's good to go.

http://alaingilbert.github.com/Turntable-API/bookmarklet.html

I am using the chat-bot example and for some reason after about 1 song the bot is being dropped from the room. On the site, in the room, I can see the bot's icon there, but when I refresh they are not there (I am guessing the icon was only where because of some false open connection or something). Any reason why or how to keep the connection alive? There are no chat's in the room so maybe it is because there is too long of a period without receiving data? I don't know, just speculating.

Thanks!

Here, I have 3 questions. For the AFK Police.

First question: How do I make the '+dj+' things to show their real DJ names not their IDs.

afkCheck = function () {
   var afkLimit = 7; //An Afk Limit of 7+1 minutes.
   for (i = 0; i < djs.length; i++) {
      dj = djs[i]; //Pick a DJ
      if (isAfk(dj, afkLimit)) { 
         bot.speak('@'+dj+', don\'t fall alseep on the decks! Wake up!');
         bot.pm('Hey! Don\'t fall alseep on the decks! Wake up! You have 1 minute to respond before you get remove from the decks!', dj);
         setTimeout(function() {
         bot.remDj(dj);
         bot.speak('@'+dj+', you were remove because you were AFK on the decks for 8 minutes.');
      }, 60000);

      };
   };
};

Second Question: So, this repeats every 5 seconds, and when the Dude AFK Limit DOES hit, won't the bot give the Dude the speech every 5 seconds? Is there some way you can stop that? With variables and stuff?

setInterval(afkCheck, 5000) //This repeats the check every five seconds.

Third Question: Soooo, is there a way so that the TimeStamp updates? By, Speaking, PMing, Laming, Awesoming? Cause, I don't think this works. I just see speak, but I don't know what to put there.

bot.on('roomChanged', function (data) { djs = data.room.metadata.djs; });

bot.on('add_dj', function (data) { djs.push(data.user[0].userid); });

bot.on('rem_dj', function (data) { djs.splice(djs.indexOf(data.user[0].userid), 1); });


    justSaw = function (uid) {
    return lastSeen[uid] = Date.now();
    };

    bot.on('speak', function (data) {
    //your other code
    justSaw(data.userid);
    });

    isAfk = function (userId, num) {
   var last = lastSeen[userId];
   var age_ms = Date.now() - last;
   var age_m = Math.floor(age_ms / 1000 / 60);
   if (age_m >= num) {
      return true;
   };
   return false;
};

at about 1 AM EST I got this error on more than 1 bot

net.js:391
    throw new Error('Socket is not writable');
          ^
Error: Socket is not writable
    at Client._writeOut (net.js:391:11)
    at Client.write (net.js:377:17)
    at [object Object].<anonymous> (/node_modules/ttapi/websocket.js:449:16)
    at [object Object]._send (/node_modules/ttapi/bot.js:299:12)
    at [object Object].updatePresence (/node_modules/ttapi/bot.js:333:9)
    at Timer.callback (/node_modules/ttapi/bot.js:148:47)

not sure if this is due to an interruption by tt or by my server ?

I would appreciate any advice you could give here
Mike

On line 149 of bot.js, the updatePresence() interval, is this needed anymore? I know it causes memory leak issues and I seem to stay on chat fine without it.

Comments/Thoughts?

remDj, roomInfo, getProfile, playlistAll, playlistAdd, playlistRemove, playlistReorder

these functions should use python style named/keyword parameters, rather than relying so strictly on parameter order.

NPM installs 1.2.4, won't update beyond that version. Checked a dev bot I set up this weekend and it's on 1.4.3, so something reverted yesterday or today.

I may be asking not exactly in the right place, but suppose I wanted to be able to return the username of any user by using getProfile and then reply in a PM e.g.:

user:    username of 4f66952ba3f751581d025a4d
bot:     The username of the user is John Doe.

How would I go about doing this?

Thanks and pardon my lack of experience
~ LSK

The documentation says "snag" will not add a song to queue, but I thought that's what it was doing...how does this compare to playlistAdd?

Also, the playlist functions make it seems as if multiple playlists are supported?

is this ttapi related?

SyntaxError: Unexpected token U
at Object.parse (native)
at [object Object].onMessage (/node_modules/ttapi/bot.js:151:20)
at [object Object].onmessage (/node_modules/ttapi/bot.js:412:46)
at Array.0 (/node_modules/ttapi/websocket.js:308:30)
at EventEmitter._tickCallback (node.js:192:40)

We chatted earlier - I created a folder with a file, main.js:
var Bot = require('../index');
var AUTH = 'auth+live+...';
var USERID = '...';
var ROOMID = '...';

var bot = new Bot(AUTH, USERID, ROOMID);

bot.on('speak', function (data) {
   // Get the data
   var name = data.name;
   var text = data.text;

   // Respond to "/hello" command
   if (text.match(/^/hello$/)) {
      bot.speak('Hey! How are you '+name+' ?');
   }
});

Just trying to get the bot in the room. I created the file in text edit. The main.js file is in /bot folder, so I open mongoDB, connect to mongo shell, and in a seperate terminal window i cd to the bot folder and say $ node main.js
This is what happens.
$ node main.js

/bot/main.js:1
{\rtf1\ansi\ansi
^

node.js:201
throw e; // process.nextTick error, or 'error' event on first tick
^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL
at Module._compile (module.js:429:25)
at Object..js (module.js:459:10)
at Module.load (module.js:348:31)
at Function._load (module.js:308:12)
at Array.0 (module.js:479:10)
at EventEmitter._tickCallback (node.js:192:40)

I hate that I don't know what all that means. I have node installed, node_modules is located in my root, and I have ttapi, mongoose, and mysql. MongoDB is running and I have the shell open. I don't know what is wrong. Anyone? Grrrr.
Thanks so much.
Vega

Alain,

Thanks so much for this API, it's really spectacular. I've noticed that my bot will periodically crash, here are two of the the stack trace, which seem to be some kind of time out (perhaps on an http.get?):

node.js:134
        throw e; // process.nextTick error, or 'error' event on first tick
              ^
Error: ETIMEDOUT, Connection timed out
    at Socket._onConnect (net.js:595:18)
    at IOWatcher.onWritable [as callback] (net.js:186:12)

And this looks a little different, but also seems to deal with some kind of network issue

net.js:391
    throw new Error('Socket is not writable');
          ^
Error: Socket is not writable
    at Client._writeOut (net.js:391:11)
    at Client.write (net.js:377:17)
    at [object Object].<anonymous> (/home/dkyjenxqvps/tt bots/websocket.js:449:16)
    at [object Object]._send (/home/dkyjenxqvps/tt bots/bot.js:288:12)
    at [object Object].updatePresence (/home/dkyjenxqvps/tt bots/bot.js:317:9)
    at Timer.callback (/home/dkyjenxqvps/tt bots/bot.js:137:47)

I'm not exactly a seasoned javascript coder, but I suspect it's that I'm not handling some case with a try/catch. If it's possible and not too difficult for you to explain how I might code to prevent this, I'd appreciate any help you can offer.

I saw at the bottom of websocket.py (and possibly a few other places) that you were hard coding the port.
ws = create_connection("ws://localhost:5000/chat")

I'm trying to use a node.js hosting platform to develop on, but they require a custom port. They also support environment variables: port, host, PORT, HOST, app_host, app_port.

Any chance you could change the port to use a variable?

Thanks!
-Mike

For the last week or two I've noticed that when my bot (cmbot) snags a song, it doesn't produce the hearts anymore. After looking into it, it looks like the snag() call is failing. I add a callback and checked the result it receives, and get the following

result: { msgid: 85, err: '', success: false }

Anyone know why? I know this is happening with at least one other bot running my code.

console.log(data.room.metadata.votelog);

does not return a user id on down vote but does on up vote

thanks for any help
Mike

Could someone whip up a quick example for replying to PMs in Python (something like the chat bot example except for PMming)? I'm having trouble trying to understand how to use it.

Thanks in advance.

Very excited to see that TT added private messaging, which adds another (less noisy) way for bots to interact with real people.

http://blog.turntable.fm/post/18010302466/turntable-adds-private-messaging

I was hoping bot.on('speak') would work, but looks like it doesn't. I hope to see support for it in your API, Alain!

I know it is possible, I am just not familiar with how to make the bot produce the 'heart' from it's cute little head when i tell her to swipe a song. How do I modify the snag ( [ callback:fn ] ) to make my bot heart-burp on the /snag command?
Thanks so much... I am learning!
Vega

Is there any reason we don't make better use of this flag?

I understand most people have a single bot and it's not really necessary, but for those who run quite a few, this flag is invaluable and I noticed it's never actually being set to false. In my fork I made it so this condition is set if some conditions are met.

I think it may be possible that the setTimeout on the update presence method may be causing garbage collection issues when operating multiple bots. So far I have updated my copy to cancel the setTimeout if the web socket is no longer connected and seems to be working nicely. I will give more updates in the next day or two as I test it out.

My bot works perfectly for about one minute, and then stops being able to interact with the room (vote, speak, etc...) all at once.

It hasn't frozen, because I still get console log messages that look perfect.

Here's my code:

var bot = new Bot(AUTH, USERID, ROOMID);

bot.on('speak', function (data) {
    // Get the data
    var name = data.name;
    var text = data.text;

    // Say stuff when someone says myname
    if ( text.indexOf("myname") != -1 && !name.match(/^\myname$/)) {
        console.log('\nI heard my name\n\n', data); 
        bot.speak('/me myname');
    }
});

bot.on('newsong', function (data) { 
    bot.vote('up'); 
    console.log('\New song, voted up\n\n', data); 
});

How can the bot snag every song a person plays and adds it to their playlist? And become that persons fan when they play at the same time?