huh. connection refused, that's a new one, and not something I can help with. You'll have to contact the one running the forum you're connecting to and find out from them why your bot is being refused connection.
Sorry, but that error really isn't something i can sort out on my end. it's on the server side.
@TheWorms
Assuming you're absolutely 100% certain the login credentials are correct in the configuration file, the only two things that come to mind are:
forum key. are you sure you've set it correctly. If you havent set it it will default to https://what.thedailywtf.com which is almost certainly not what you want.@sic2 said in get all posts:
Hi!
I have a similar question to @louisemcmahon
I can get the most recent posts from the API
/api/recent/posts(API route codeI can see that there is no way of getting all posts (at least I do not see it). Do you know if there is a workaround or there is a plan to add this feature?
Thanks!
it sounds like you want the contents of a topic client side to process.
if you have a browser that is ES6 compliant (chrome confirmed, firefox is probably good, not sure about safari, IE is out) then this GIST will work fr downloading a single topic as CSV.
view the gist
https://gist.github.com/AccaliaDeElementia/a74ea51ae05433171f17bd4d397b287d
to select the topic to download you edit the final line of that script to include the topic ID you wish to save, replacing the example topic id (in this case 20937) with the one you desire.
downloadTopic(20937).then(result=>console.log(result))
then execute the script in your browser console while being on the target forum.
if it complains about window.socket not existing on line 84 of the script, simply refresh the forum with the console open and try again. I've not figured out why, but sometimes chrome can't find the websocket object used by the forums if the console is opened after the page loads.
@Domas-Vileikis okay..... that's strange as heck.....
that's not where i expected that failure to occur.
however i do know what the cause is. and i can help you fix it.
the error occurs trying to load the configuration settings for the forum in order to get the CSRF token to log in. this is done by loading /api/config on your forum.
so, for example, if you were running a bot for this forum the value you would have put in core.forum would be https://community.nodebb.org and so the configuration would be at https://community.nodebb.org/api/config
can you check to make sure that when you visit the URL in your configuration for core.forum you arrive at your forum's home page and that when loading /api/config relative to that URL in the manner i described above your browser loads a JSON document.
if one or both of these manual checks fail then the value you put in the configuration for core.forum is incorrect and needs to be updated. if both checks pass when tried in a browser then it is most likely your forum has some sort of security in place that is preventing sockbot's user agent access to the REST API of the forum. you will need to update the firewall rules in this case to allow sockbot access, or if you are not the administrator of the webserver your forum runs on you will need to ask your server admin to update the firewall rules for you.
hoping this gets you off and running with sockbot,
-Accalia
@jiangcaiyang said in [sockbot] I wanted a robot, So I made one:
I want to know if people use it for malicious perpose?
yes, that's possible.
@jiangcaiyang said in [sockbot] I wanted a robot, So I made one:
For instance, some could run a script that frequently post ADs to our forum, thus cause our forum unable to run normally?
yes, but sockbot is incapable of that, it needs a manually registered account so would be far too quickly banned. there are other bots that run the spam.
@jiangcaiyang said in [sockbot] I wanted a robot, So I made one:
Is it possible to use it without administrative permission?
yes, but i hereby formally declare that anyone doing so with sockbot is a total poopy pants. 
sockbot is meant for fun, not malice.
@Domas-Vileikis hmm... well other than nodebb being very confused with the formatting that looks okay.
can you run the bot as follows and post the results to me via chat? This command will be very verbose with debugging information and may contain sensitive information so please do not post the results publically.
DEBUG=* sockbot config.yml
that command should provide me with additional information to figure out what's happening so we can sort you out.
@julian true, but as this is a startup error it's highly likely to be caused by a misconfiguration in the config file (usually the wrong URL for the forum)
@Domas-Vileikis interesting error...
could you post the configuration file you are using for the bot (with password redacted for security) so i can take a look at it? most errors like this are simple typos in configuration and should be easy to solve.
@exodo said in [sockbot] I wanted a robot, So I made one:
i work on synology so actually i think its not posible to update it
hmm... interesting. don't think i've worked with them before. I've got a QNAP NAS myself and use an Intel NUC, or a Raspberry Pi, as my test box....
still NVM should work for you, it installs to your home directory so it doesn't interfere with other users or the system.
@exodo said in [sockbot] I wanted a robot, So I made one:
thanks for the support
no worries. it's what i do. let me know if i can do anything more to help.
@exodo said in [sockbot] I wanted a robot, So I made one:
i see, my test server doesnt support that new realeases, thank anyways
unless there's a specific reason why the newer versions of nodejs are not supported i have found nvm to work just fine for managing multiple versions of nodsjs.
in fact all development for sockbot is done using nvm installed version of node so as to allow me to quickly switch between versions to test functionality against multiple versions of nodejs.
I'd be happy to help you set up a user account on your test server with nvm so that you can use sockbot on that server without interfering with the already installed applications..... if that's a thing you'd like to do?
I have also confirmed that cloud9 ide fully supports sockbot in its free tier (and comes with nvm preconfigured). Workspaces for the free tier are quickly frozen when idle, so good for testing, not so good for long term use.
@exodo said in [sockbot] I wanted a robot, So I made one:
SyntaxError: Use of const in strict mode.
hmm...
let me guess..... node version 0.12?
sockbot unfortunately uses a lot of features of ES6 and thus requires version 4.0 to run.
it may be possible to run in version 0.12 using the --harmony command line flag but that configuration is, unfortunately not supported. 
@UncleSam please install the new version and test. it should resolve your issue with the summoner plugin.
@UncleSam huh. and did the bot actually receive notifications from the forum in the time period it was online?
if so.... i'm very confused.... but never fear i will figure this out. there's one more piece of debugging available to me!
could you enable Ultra Debug Mode<sup>TM</sup> and send me a link via chat to a pastebin or gist of the file it generates?
There is a possibility of sensitive information being revealed through Ultra Debug Mode<sup>TM</sup> so please make sure the pastebin or gist is private and send the link to me over chat, rather than posting on the forum.
to enable Ultra Debug Mode<sup>TM</sup> run the bot with the following command:
$> DEBUG=* sockbot /path/to/config.yml 2>&1 | tee logfile.txt
then run the bot through it's paces by mentioning it and sending the help command via chat to the bot before sending me logfile.txt
That should provide me with all the necessary information to determine what's gone wrong.
Thank you for your patience and understanding in this matter.
@UncleSam that's........ strange.....
if you manually log into the bot account and view its profile page can you see any existing login sessions under the settings page.
they should show up as unknown on Linux or unknown on Windows depending on what OS the bot is running on (looks like Linux from your logs)
@UncleSam that looks like a good login output to me.
what happens when you @mention the bot account on the forum to trigger the summon?
if that still fails try sending the following to the bot in a chat:
!help
does the bot reply to that chat with anything?
if not please try starting the bot in debug mode and capturing the output from that by executing:
$> DEBUG=sockbot* sockbot path/to/config.yml
@UncleSam the example config i posted in the opening post should get you a bot that runs the summoner plugin using Zoidberg quotes.
Do you get any output on the console when you run your configuration? can you please post the output you have, either here or in a private chat with me?
@NedFodder indeed. i can finally stop seeing all those damn flamewars constantly popping up in my unread tab...
My only down side to this is i can't set the watching status without actually entering the thread at least once.... there's a reason i got out of the kitchen! i can't take the heat!
it's not a huge deal, but being able to set the watch status on threads without entering the thread would be a nice to have.
@pikshub the bots?
not much you can do to prevent them.
like i said, unless they are causing performance problems for your site, ignore them. they're trying to hack software you aren't even running, so they've got no chance of success there.
@pikshub that would be a bot scanning your site for the wordpress login page, hoping to find a vulnerable wp install it can infect with malware.
they're pretty common, and annoying, but unless you are also running wordpress, or they seem to be causing problems for your site, i'd ignore them as noise in the log files.