mod_zulip_roominfobot

A module for Jitsi's XMPP server, which provides an HTTP endpoint that can be used to request information about open conferences via Zulip.

Example

This picture is from the Zulip server of the company where I work. The texts in this version are in English.

Running with

• Prosody 0.10: Yes
• Prosody 0.11: Yes
• Prosody 0.12: Yes

Installation

Zulip

1. go to Menu -> Settings -> Your Bots -> Add a new bot
   • Typ: Outgoing Webhook
   • Name: Choose your bot name
   • E-Mail address: Choose the bots email address
   • Endpoint-URL: The URL where the POST request is send to, e.g. https://meetings.example.com/roominfobot
   • Outgoing webhook message format: Zulip
2. press Create bot
3. go to Active bots
4. download the zuliprc file from your bot
   • you'll find the token in this file, which you need at point 9. of Jitsi Server configuration

Jitsi Server

1. open /etc/prosody/prosody.cfg.lua and add the line http_host = "meetings.example.com" (replace the domain with yours)
2. save and close the configuration
3. open /etc/prosody/conf.d/meetings.example.com.cfg.lua (replace the filename with your domain) and add the following line:

plugin_paths = { "/usr/local/lib/prosody/modules/" }

• if this line already exists put the module in this folder, or add your path to the plugin_paths table

5. now search the following line:

Component "conference.meetings.example.com" "muc"

6. add the following under this line:

modules_enabled = { "zulip_roominfobot"; }
allowed_zulip_bots = { "$token" }

• if the modules_enabled already exists, add "zulip_roominfobot" to it
• replace $token in allowed_zulip_bots with the bot token which you can find in the zuliprc file
  • you can add multiple bot tokens to the table allowed_zulip_bots to allow multiple bots using the endpoint

7. save and close the configuration
8. clone this repository into the folder you defined at point 3
   • or create a subfolder with the name mod_zulip_roominfobot and copy the three .lua from this repository into it
9. Restart prosody

If the plugin is loaded correctly, then you can send POST requests to http://meetings.example.com:5280/zulip_roominfobot.

NGINX

• If you use NGINX as reverse proxy you can add the following to it:

location /roominfobot {
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
    proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:5280/zulip_roominfobot;
}