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Kovi

A OneBot V11 bot plugin framework developed in Rust.

You can find more documentation in the Kovi Doc.

The project is currently in beta.

More features will be added in future updates.

Note⚠️: The project is in Beta, and the following may change.

Note⚠️: The project currently only supports the OneBot V11 forward WebSocket protocol.

Getting Started

It's recommended to use kovi-cli to manage your Kovi bot project.

1. Create a basic Rust project and add the framework.

cargo install kovi-cli
cargo kovi new my-kovi-bot
cd ./my-kovi-bot

2. You will see that a bot instance has been generated in src/main.rs.

use kovi::build_bot;

fn main() {
    let bot = build_bot!();
    bot.run()
}

If this is your first run, during build_bot, you'll be prompted to enter some information to create the kovi.conf.json file, which is required for Kovi to run.

✔ What is the type of the host of the OneBot server? · IPv4

✔ What is the IP of the OneBot server? · 127.0.0.1
(Default: 127.0.0.1)

✔ What is the port of the OneBot server? · 8081
(Default: 8081)

✔ What is the access_token of the OneBot server? (Optional) ·
(Default: empty)

✔ What is the ID of the main administrator? (Not used yet)
(Optional)

✔ Do you want to view more optional options? · No

Plugin Development

Creating a Plugin

Follow the steps below.

cargo kovi create hi

kovi-cli and cargo will take care of everything for you.

You will see that a new plugins/hi directory has been created. This is also the recommended way to develop plugins, as it’s always good to manage them in a directory.

Writing a Plugin

Write your newly created plugin in plugins/hi/src/lib.rs.

Here's a minimal example:

// Import the plugin builder structure
use kovi::PluginBuilder as plugin;

#[kovi::plugin] // Build the plugin
async fn main() {
    plugin::on_msg(|event| async move {
        // on_msg() listens for messages, and event contains all the information of the current message.
        if event.borrow_text() == Some("Hi Bot") {
            event.reply("Hi!") // Quick reply
        }
    });
}

The main function is written in lib.rs because it will be exported later to be mounted to the bot instance.

Plugins generally don't need a main.rs.

Mounting the Plugin

cargo kovi add hi

Alternatively, you can use cargo directly; both are the same. This will add a local dependency in the root project’s Cargo.toml.

cargo add --path plugins/hi

use kovi::build_bot;

fn main() {
    let bot = build_bot!(hi,hi2,plugin123);
    bot.run()
}

More Plugin Examples

Bot Actively Sending Messages

use kovi::PluginBuilder as plugin;

#[kovi::plugin]
async fn main() {
    // get a RuntimeBot
    let bot = plugin::get_runtime_bot();
    let user_id = bot.main_admin;

    bot.send_private_msg(user_id, "bot online")
}

The main() function runs only once when plugin starts.

The closure passed to plugin::on_msg() runs every time a message is received.

Kovi has encapsulated all available OneBot standard APIs. To extend the API, you can use RuntimeBot's send_api() to send APIs yourself. You can check out the API extension plugins available for your needs at Kovi Plugin Shop.

You can find more documentation in the Kovi Doc.