Automate your GitHub processes with botdylan

Heavily inspired by GitHub’s Hubot – botdylan lets you automate any process in GitHub.

We use Github heavily. There are some repetitive tasks that were taking away our time to hack on a better product. Since we are in the productivity space we decided to stop doing things manually and start to have a more productive environment to work with.

Here are a few examples of what you can do with botdylan:

Label issues with the status of the CI
Show a cowboy image when someone posts directly to develop
Label issues that have 2 or more thumbs
Post images on demand "image me..."
Label issues with the status of the PR (mergeable or not)
Ping inactive pull requests
Post message to your chat room (when the CI fails for instance)
Interact with other services via HTTP

botdylan runs as a daemon and gets configured through a config.json file that describes cron and hooks scripts. cron scripts execute periodically and hook scripts execute on github hook events.

$ ls /etc/botdylan
scripts/hooks
scripts/crons
config.json

$ botdylan --dir /etc/botdylan

Check out the project on GitHub to learn more.

ht/ Pau Ramon from Teambox