After downloading Java AIM Bot you must configure it using the provided properties file. The bot.properties file can be found in the conf directory.
You must specify a valid AIM username and password. You can obtain an AIM username by visiting AOL's screename service .
Once you have a screename and password you should specify them in the bot.properties file by editing the following lines:
aim.username= aim.password=
For example, if your username is myUserName and your password is myPassword you should edit the file as follows:
aim.username=myUserName aim.password=myPassword
Once you have specified a username and password for your bot, you can actually run it, but you probably want to specify your own screename as an Administrator of the bot. This will allow you to access privileged commands, such as the ability to remove users and specify other administrators.
This can be accomplished by setting the following line to your screename:
bot.admin=
By default your bot will only allow actual users of the bot to access its services. You can set the following property to true to have the bot automatically add all screenames that message it, to its users list. You should change the following line:
#bot.autoadd=false
To this:
bot.autoadd=true
NOTE: It is recommended that if you run a private bot, you also configure it to ignore non-users (so they can't warn it). See information on how to do this with the bot.nonuser.response property below.
By default your bot will only allow actual users of the bot to access its services (buddys are not users). You can set the following property to false to have the bot allow buddys as well as users to use it. You should change the following line:
#bot.enforceUser=true
To this:
bot.enforceUser=false
NOTE: It is recommended that you leave this true, which allows you to have buddies in your buddy list that can't use the bot's services.
By default your bot's profile will point people to this project. You can change this to something more personal by editing the following property:
#bot.profile=I'm running code from:\n http://jaimbot.sourceforge.net/
You can change this message, by uncommenting that property and setting it to anything else. IMPORTANT: It must all be on one line; if you want mutlipe line, you can use \n instead of returns.
For example, if you want the bot to say "I'm not a bot." you should edit the file as follows:
bot.profile=I'm not a bot.
Since, by default, your bot will only allow actual users of the bot to access its services you may want to personalize what your bot says to a person that messages it, that isn't yet a user. The following line allows you to configure this:
#bot.nonuser.response=Sorry, you must be a user of this system to send requests.
You can change this message, by uncommenting that property and setting it to anything else. IMPORTANT: It must all be on one line; if you want mutlipe line, you can use \n instead of returns.
For example, if you want the bot to say "You need to be registered to use this
bot, please visit my website to register:
http://your.web.site.com/." you should edit the file as
follows:
bot.nonuser.response=You need to be registered to use this bot, please visit my website to register:\nhttp://your.web.site.com/.
If you want your bot to ignore non-users (which is recommended if you are running a private bot). You can uncomment this property and set it to nothing. This way non-users will not be able to warn your bot. You can achieve this by setting the property as follows:
bot.nonuser.response=
By default your bot will save its settings and state to a file when it is shutdown (even by killing the JVM), which it will read the next time it is started to reapply the settings and state. You can set the following property to false to disable this behavior. You should change the following line:
#bot.autopersist=true
To this:
bot.autopersist=false
NOTE: If you disable this you will need to send the message "persist" to the bot as an admin in order to save its settings and state before you shut it down.
The following options let you specify the level of output that should show up in the log file, and specify the name of the file. To set them you should first remove the "#" symbol, then set them to an appropriate value.
# SEVERE (big problems)> WARNING (problems) > INFO (system status) > FINE (all aim messages)> FINEST (gory details) #logger.level=INFO #Defaults <aim.username>_aimbot.log.xml #logger.file=
You can also specify which modules you want loaded into the bot and which order they should be loaded. To load a module into the bot you should have an entry in the file like "mod.X=MODNAME" where X is the number which specifies the order in which the module should be loaded, and MODNAME is the fully specified class name of the module.
Module 0 is a special module which will get all requests that aren't serviced by other modules. By default this is set to the MegaHal AI chatter bot module.
The following are the default settings and will probably work fine for your bot unless you want to enable/disable a specific module, or if you want to load your own custom modules.
#mod.0 is the Default mod that will handle messages that aren't serviced by other mods mod.0=com.levelonelabs.aimbot.modules.MegaHalModule # # Recommended Mods # mod.1=com.levelonelabs.aimbot.modules.MessengerModule mod.2=com.levelonelabs.aimbot.modules.UserAdminModule mod.3=com.levelonelabs.aimbot.modules.ListModule mod.4=com.levelonelabs.aimbot.modules.PreferenceModule mod.5=com.levelonelabs.aimbot.modules.UserInformationModule # # Info Mods # mod.6=com.levelonelabs.aimbot.modules.HeadlinesModule mod.7=com.levelonelabs.aimbot.modules.StockModule mod.8=com.levelonelabs.aimbot.modules.TVListingsModule mod.9=com.levelonelabs.aimbot.modules.WeatherModule mod.10=com.levelonelabs.aimbot.modules.BabelModule mod.11=com.levelonelabs.aimbot.modules.TicTacToeModule mod.12=com.levelonelabs.aimbot.modules.ReminderModule # opens port 1234 for command line interface to send messages #mod.13=com.levelonelabs.aimbot.modules.TelnetModule