Cavil 2018 stuff

Files-and-scratch-setup.md

• ~/dev: Base dir where everything is.
• ~/dev/SO-ChatBot: git clone https://github.com/allquixotic/SO-ChatBot
• run-headless.config.json: drop in ~/dev/SO-ChatBot
• run-headless.sh: drop in ~/dev

Steps:

• Extract firefox latest .tar.bz2 (with "firefox" folder inside) to ~/dev/firefox. Firefox binary should be ~/dev/firefox/firefox/firefox (we have to say firefox three times to summon @Bob-refox) - known working with Firefox 59.0.3
• Update geckodriver version (download from Github) and WebdriverIO in SO-ChatBot/package.json to use newer Firefox, as they are both fairly tightly coupled to the Firefox version
• Extract geckodriver binary into ~/dev/firefox (known working with 0.20.1)
• Don't need selenium-server-standalone anymore, or Java
• Need Node 6.x or later (use LTS)
• In ~/dev/SO-ChatBot: run npm install to grab WebdriverIO dependency
• Need GNU screen installed
• Don't need an X server
• ~/dev/firefox/ffprofile is where the Firefox profile will be stored. Not sure if FF creates this dir if it doesn't exist, but if it doesn't, you need to mkdir it
• Obviously if your username isn't "sean", s/sean/whatever/g in everything

run-headless.config.json

{
    "email":    "put Cavil's email here",
    "password": "put Cavil's password here",

    "siteUrl": "https://stackexchange.com",
    "roomUrl": "https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/118",
    "loginUrl": "http://stackexchange.com/users/login",

    "scriptUrl": "http://localhost/master.js",

    "driverOptions": {
        "path": "/",
        "desiredCapabilities": {
            "moz:firefoxOptions": {
                "binary": "/home/sean/dev/firefox/firefox/firefox",
                "prefs": {
                    "security.mixed_content.block_active_content": false
                },
                "args": ["--headless", "--profile", "/home/sean/dev/firefox/ffprofile"]
            }
        }
    }
}

run-headless.sh

#!/bin/bash
killall firefox geckodriver nodejs >& /dev/null
sleep 1
killall -9 firefox geckodriver nodejs >& /dev/null
screen -mdS gecko firefox/geckodriver --marionette-port 33333
sleep 5
screen -mdS bot nodejs SO-ChatBot/run-headless-webdriver.js