jflheureux/uabot

Bot to generate data for Usage Analytics

uabot

Bot to send "intelligent" random usage analytics to simulate visits, queries and clicks on a site. Works with a configuration file using json format. Check the /scenarios_examples folder for examples.

How to use:

1. Download executable.
2. Set Environment variables (refer to the section below).
3. Build your scenarios (How to build scenarios).
4. Execute the bot.

Tracing

You can use the argument -trace to get more logs when debugging your scenarios.

Examples of scenarios

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Usage documentation

Code documentation

Supports

• Search events
• Click events
• Custom events
• Facet events
• View events
• TabChange events

Environment variables

Needs 3 environment variables to function :

Variable	Usage
SEARCHTOKEN	API key to search
UATOKEN	API key to send events to UA
SCENARIOSURL	Url to the scenario JSON file to randomize
LOCAL	true for local (default false)

On windows

set SEARCHTOKEN=value
set UATOKEN=value
set SCENARIOSURL=value
set LOCAL=true #if scenariosurl is a local path

On MAC

export SEARCHTOKEN = value
export UATOKEN = value
export SCENARIOSURL = value
export LOCAL=true #if scenariosurl is a local path

Developper section

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To build an executable

# Install the dependencies
1. go get
# Build an executable -o sets the output name
2. go build -o myexecutable
3. Run the executable

To trigger a Docker rebuild, push with latest tag

1. Commit your changes
# We need to use the -f option here because tag latest already exists
2. git tag -f -a latest -m "Rebuild reason here"
# Push changes to branch + push changes to tag, you will need to supply credentials twice.
3. git push && git push -f --tags

To release a newer version of the bot, with Travis automated builds

# Create a new tag with the version number to use.
1. git tag -a [v0.9.9] -m "Release comment here"
# Push tag.
2. git push --tags origin master
# It takes a little bit of time for Travis to generate the artefacts
3. Visit https://github.com/coveo/uabot/releases to view the releases to ensure your new release is visible.