A Keybase chat bot that allows members of conversations to easily create both public and anonymous polls.

In order to run the Poll bot, there needs to be a running MySQL database in order to store the currently active polls and enforce single-vote anonymous polls.

1. On that SQL instance, create a database for the bot, and run db.sql to set up the tables.
2. Build the bot using Go 1.13+, like such (in this directory):

   go install .
   

3. Poll bot sets itself up to serve HTTP requests on /pollbot plus a prefix indicating what the anonymous voting URLs will look like. The HTTP server runs on port 8080. You can configure nginx or any other reverse proxy software to route to this port and path.
4. In order for users to login to vote anonymously in a web browser, the Poll bot needs a server side secret. You must pass this in with --login-secret.
5. To start the Poll bot, run a command like this:

   $GOPATH/bin/pollbot --http-prefix 'http://localhost:8080' --dsn 'root@/pollbot' --login-secret 'moony wormtail padfoot prongs'
   

6. Run pollbot --help for more options.

• If you accidentally run the bot under your own username and wish to clear the ! commands, run the following:

  keybase chat clear-commands
  

• Restricted bots are restricted from knowing channel names. If you would like a bot to announce or report errors to a specific channel you can use a ConversationID which can be found by running:

  keybase chat conv-info teamname --channel channel
  

• By default, bots are unable to read their own messages. For development, it may be useful to disable this safeguard. You can do this using --read-self flag when running the bot.

There are a few complications running a Keybase chat bot, and it is likely easiest to deploy using Docker. See https://hub.docker.com/r/keybaseio/client for our preferred client image to get started.