go-wechaty

Connecting Chatbots

Wechaty is a RPA SDK for Wechat Individual Account that can help you create a chatbot in 6 lines of Go.

Voice of the Developers

"Wechaty is a great solution, I believe there would be much more users recognize it." link
— @Gcaufy, Tencent Engineer, Author of WePY

"太好用，好用的想哭"
— @xinbenlv, Google Engineer, Founder of HaoShiYou.org

"最好的微信开发库" link
— @Jarvis, Baidu Engineer

"Wechaty让运营人员更多的时间思考如何进行活动策划、留存用户，商业变现" link
— @lijiarui, Founder & CEO of Juzi.BOT.

"If you know js ... try Wechaty, it's easy to use."
— @Urinx Uri Lee, Author of WeixinBot(Python)

See more at Wiki:Voice Of Developer

Join Us

Wechaty is used in many ChatBot projects by thousands of developers. If you want to talk with other developers, just scan the following QR Code in WeChat with secret code go wechaty, join our Wechaty Go Developers' Home.

Scan now, because other Wechaty Go developers want to talk with you too! (secret code: go wechaty)

The World's Shortest Go ChatBot: 7 lines of Code

package main

import (
	"fmt"

	"github.com/wechaty/go-wechaty/wechaty"
)

func main() {
	_ = wechaty.NewWechaty().
		OnScan(func(qrCode, status string) {
			fmt.Printf("Scan QR Code to login: %s\nhttps://wechaty.github.io/qrcode/%s\n", status, qrCode)
		}).
		OnLogin(func(user string) { fmt.Printf("User %s logined\n", user) }).
		OnMessage(func(message string) { fmt.Printf("Message: %s\n", message) }).
		Start()
}

Go Wechaty Developing Plan

We already have Wechaty in TypeScript, It will be not too hard to translate the TypeScript(TS) to Go because wechaty has only 3,000 lines of the TS code, they are well designed and de-coupled by the wechaty-puppet abstraction. So after we have translated those 3,000 lines of TypeScript code, we will almost be done.

As we have already a ecosystem of Wechaty in TypeScript, so we will not have to implement everything in Go, especially, in the Feb 2020, we have finished the @chatie/grpc service abstracting module with the wechaty-puppet-hostie implmentation.

The following diagram shows out that we can reuse almost everything in TypeScript, and what we need to do is only the block located at the top right of the diagram: Wechaty (Go).

  +--------------------------+ +--------------------------+
  |                          | |                          |
  |   Wechaty (TypeScript)   | |      Wechaty (Go)        |
  |                          | |                          |
  +--------------------------+ +--------------------------+

  +-------------------------------------------------------+
  |                 Wechaty Puppet Hostie                 |
  |                                                       |
  |                (wechaty-puppet-hostie)                |
  +-------------------------------------------------------+

+---------------------  @chatie/grpc  ----------------------+

  +-------------------------------------------------------+
  |                Wechaty Puppet Abstract                |
  |                                                       |
  |                   (wechaty-puppet)                    |
  +-------------------------------------------------------+

  +--------------------------+ +--------------------------+
  |      Pad Protocol        | |      Web Protocol        |
  |                          | |                          |
  | wechaty-puppet-padplus   | |(wechaty-puppet-puppeteer)|
  +--------------------------+ +--------------------------+
  +--------------------------+ +--------------------------+
  |    Windows Protocol      | |       Mac Protocol       |
  |                          | |                          |
  | (wechaty-puppet-windows) | | (wechaty-puppet-macpro)  |
  +--------------------------+ +--------------------------+

Example: How to Translate TypeScript to Go

There's a 100 lines class named Image in charge of downloading the WeChat image to different sizes.

It is a great example for demonstrating how do we translate the TypeScript to Go in Wechaty Way:

Image Class Source Code

• TypeScript: https://github.com/wechaty/wechaty/blob/master/src/user/image.ts
• Go: https://github.com/wechaty/go-wechaty/blob/master/src/wechaty/user/image.go

If you are interested in the translation and want to look at how it works, it will be a good start from reading and comparing those two Image class files in TypeScript and Go at the same time.

To-do List

• TS: TypeScript
• SLOC: Source Lines Of Code

Wechaty Internal Modules

1. [ ] Class Wechaty
   • TS SLOC(1160): https://github.com/wechaty/wechaty/blob/master/src/wechaty.ts
   • [ ] Code
   • [ ] Unit Tests
   • [ ] Documentation
2. [ ] Class Contact
   • TS SLOC(804): https://github.com/wechaty/wechaty/blob/master/src/user/contact.ts
   • [ ] Code
   • [ ] Unit Tests
   • [ ] Documentation
3. [ ] Class ContactSelf
   • TS SLOC(199): https://github.com/wechaty/wechaty/blob/master/src/user/contact-self.ts
   • [ ] Code
   • [ ] Unit Tests
   • [ ] Documentation
4. [ ] Class Message
   • TS SLOC(1054): https://github.com/wechaty/wechaty/blob/master/src/user/message.ts
   • [ ] Code
   • [ ] Unit Tests
   • [ ] Documentation
5. [ ] Class Room
   • TS SLOC(1194): https://github.com/wechaty/wechaty/blob/master/src/user/room.ts
   • [ ] Code
   • [ ] Unit Tests
   • [ ] Documentation
6. [ ] Class Image
   • TS SLOC(60): https://github.com/wechaty/wechaty/blob/master/src/user/image.ts
   • [X] Code
   • [ ] Unit Tests
   • [ ] Documentation
7. [ ] Class Accessory
   • TS SLOC(179): https://github.com/wechaty/wechaty/blob/master/src/accessory.ts
   • [ ] Code
   • [ ] Unit Tests
   • [ ] Documentation
8. [ ] Class Config
   • TS SLOC(187): https://github.com/wechaty/wechaty/blob/master/src/config.ts
   • [ ] Code
   • [ ] Unit Tests
   • [ ] Documentation
9. [ ] Class Favorite
   • TS SLOC(52): https://github.com/wechaty/wechaty/blob/master/src/user/favorite.ts
   • [ ] Code
   • [ ] Unit Tests
   • [ ] Documentation
10. [ ] Class Friendship
    • TS SLOC(417): https://github.com/wechaty/wechaty/blob/master/src/user/friendship.ts
    • [ ] Code
    • [ ] Unit Tests
    • [ ] Documentation
11. [ ] Class MiniProgram
    • TS SLOC(70): https://github.com/wechaty/wechaty/blob/master/src/user/mini-program.ts
    • [ ] Code
    • [ ] Unit Tests
    • [ ] Documentation
12. [ ] Class RoomInvitation
    • TS SLOC(317): https://github.com/wechaty/wechaty/blob/master/src/user/room-invitation.ts
    • [ ] Code
    • [ ] Unit Tests
    • [ ] Documentation
13. [ ] Class Tag
    • TS SLOC(190): https://github.com/wechaty/wechaty/blob/master/src/user/tag.ts
    • [ ] Code
    • [ ] Unit Tests
    • [ ] Documentation
14. [ ] Class UrlLink
    • TS SLOC(107): https://github.com/wechaty/wechaty/blob/master/src/user/url-link.ts
    • [ ] Code
    • [ ] Unit Tests
    • [ ] Documentation

Wechaty External Modules

1. [ ] Class FileBox
   • TS SLOC(638): https://github.com/huan/file-box/blob/master/src/file-box.ts
   • [ ] Code
   • [ ] Unit Tests
   • [ ] Documentation
2. [ ] Class MemoryCard
   • TS SLOC(376): https://github.com/huan/memory-card/blob/master/src/memory-card.ts
   • [ ] Code
   • [ ] Unit Tests
   • [ ] Documentation
3. [ ] Class WechatyPuppet
   • TS SLOC(1115): https://github.com/wechaty/wechaty-puppet/blob/master/src/puppet.ts
   • [ ] Code
   • [ ] Unit Tests
   • [ ] Documentation
4. [ ] Class WechatyPuppetHostie
   • TS SLOC(909): https://github.com/wechaty/wechaty-puppet-hostie/blob/master/src/client/puppet-hostie.ts
   • [ ] Code
   • [ ] Unit Tests
   • [ ] Documentation

Usage

WIP...

Requirements

1. Go 1.14+

Install

# go get wechaty

go get github.com/wechaty/go-wechaty

Development

make install
make test

See Also

• Learn Go in 12 Minutes
• How to Write Go Code
• Journey from OO language to Golang - Sergey Kibish @DevFest Switzerland 2018
• The Go Blog - Publishing Go Modules
• Effective Go

Golang for Node.js Developer

• Golang for Node.js Developers - Examples of Golang examples compared to Node.js for learning
• Learning Go as a Node.js Developer
• Golang Tutorial for Node.js Developers

History

master

v0.4 (Jun 19, 2020)

Go Wechaty Scala Wechaty BETA Released!

Read more from our Multi-language Wechaty Beta Release event from our blog:

• Multi Language Wechaty Beta Release Announcement!

v0.1 (Apr 03 2020)

1. Welcome our second and third Go Wechaty contributors:
   • Bojie LI (李博杰) https://github.com/SilkageNet #9
   • Chaofei DING (丁超飞) https://github.com/dchaofei #20
2. Enable GitHub Actions
   1. Enable linting: golint
   2. Enable testing: testing
3. Add Makefile for easy developing
4. Re-structure module directories: from src/wechaty to wechaty
5. Rename example bot to examples/ding-dong-bot.go

v0.0.1 (Mar 12, 2020)

1. Project created.
2. Welcome our first Go Wechaty contributor:
   • Xiaoyu DING （丁小雨） https://github.com/dingdayu #2

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• Wechaty - Conversatioanl AI Chatot SDK for Wechaty Individual Accounts (TypeScript)
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• Go Wechaty - Go WeChaty Conversational AI Chatbot SDK for Wechat Individual Accounts (Go)
• Java Wechaty - Java WeChaty Conversational AI Chatbot SDK for Wechat Individual Accounts (Java)
• Scala Wechaty - Scala WeChaty Conversational AI Chatbot SDK for WechatyIndividual Accounts (Scala)

Badge

[![Wechaty in Go](https://img.shields.io/badge/Wechaty-Go-7de)](https://github.com/wechaty/go-wechaty)

Contributors

1. @SilkageNet - Bojie LI (李博杰)
2. @huan - Huan LI (李卓桓)

Creators

• @dchaofei - Chaofei DING (丁超飞)
• @dingdayu - Xiaoyu DING (丁小雨)

Copyright & License

• Code & Docs © 2020 Wechaty Contributors https://github.com/wechaty
• Code released under the Apache-2.0 License
• Docs released under Creative Commons

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