matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/docs/configuring-playbook-bot-buscarron.md

Setting up Buscarron (optional)

The playbook can install and configure buscarron for you.

Buscarron is bot that receives HTTP POST submissions of web forms and forwards them to a Matrix room.

Adjusting the playbook configuration

Add the following configuration to your inventory/host_vars/matrix.DOMAIN/vars.yml file:

matrix_bot_buscarron_enabled: true

# Uncomment and adjust this part if you'd like to use a username different than the default
# matrix_bot_buscarron_login: bot.buscarron

# Generate a strong password here. Consider generating it with `pwgen -s 64 1`
matrix_bot_buscarron_password: PASSWORD_FOR_THE_BOT

# Adjust accepted forms
matrix_bot_buscarron_forms:
  - name: contact # (mandatory) Your form name, will be used as endpoint, eg: buscarron.DOMAIN/contact
    room: "!yourRoomID:DOMAIN" # (mandatory) Room ID where form submission will be posted
    redirect: https://DOMAIN # (mandatory) To what page user will be redirected after the form submission
    ratelimit: 1r/m # (optional) rate limit of the form, format: <max requests>r/<interval:s,m>, eg: 1r/s or 54r/m
    hasemail: 1 # (optional) form has "email" field that should be validated
    extensions: [] # (optional) list of form extensions (not used yet)

matrix_bot_buscarron_spamlist: [] # (optional) list of emails/domains/hosts (with wildcards support) that should be rejected automatically

You will also need to add a DNS record so that buscarron can be accessed. By default buscarron will use https://buscarron.DOMAIN so you will need to create an CNAME record for buscarron. See Configuring DNS.

If you would like to use a different domain, add the following to your configuration file (changing it to use your preferred domain):

matrix_server_fqn_buscarron: "form.{{ matrix_domain }}"

Installing

After configuring the playbook, run the installation command again:

ansible-playbook -i inventory/hosts setup.yml --tags=setup-all,ensure-matrix-users-created,start

Notes:

• the ensure-matrix-users-created playbook tag makes the playbook automatically create the bot's user account

• if you change the bot password (matrix_bot_buscarron_password in your vars.yml file) subsequently, the bot user's credentials on the homeserver won't be updated automatically. If you'd like to change the bot user's password, use a tool like synapse-admin to change it, and then update matrix_bot_buscarron_password to let the bot know its new password

Usage

To use the bot, invite the @bot.buscarron:DOMAIN to the room you specified in a config, after that any point your form to the form url, example for the contact form:

<form method="POST" action="https://buscarron.DOMAIN/contact">
<!--your fields-->
</form>

You can also refer to the upstream documentation.