GogoBee

Matrix community bot with E2EE, 35+ plugins, passive tracking, scheduled posts, and optional LLM features.

Written in Go using mautrix-go for encryption and modernc.org/sqlite for storage. Successor to the TypeScript "Freebee" bot.

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Table of Contents

• Features
• Requirements
• Installation
• Configuration
• Running the Bot
• Commands
• Passive Features
• Scheduled Posts
• Achievements
• Personality Archetypes
• External APIs
• Architecture
• Database
• Troubleshooting

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Features

• E2EE that actually works - mautrix-go with goolm (pure Go). Crypto state lives in SQLite so device keys survive restarts. Cross-signing bootstraps on first run. Verify once, done.
• No CGo, no system deps - builds to a single static binary. Cross-compile to whatever you want.
• 35+ plugins with dependency injection and ordered registration
• Passive tracking - XP, stats, streaks, achievements, markov corpus, keyword alerts, all running silently
• Scheduled posts via robfig/cron - WOTD, holidays, game releases, birthdays, anime/movie releases, concert digests
• LLM integration (optional) - Ollama-powered sentiment analysis, roast profiles, room vibes, conversation summaries
• SQLite everything - one file, no external database needed

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Requirements

• Go 1.22+
• A Matrix homeserver account for the bot

Optional:

• Ollama for LLM features
• API keys for various services (see Configuration)

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Installation

From Source

git clone https://github.com/prosolis/gogobee.git
cd gogobee
cp .env.example .env   # edit with your settings
go build -tags goolm -o gogobee .
./gogobee

Docker

docker build -t gogobee .
docker run --env-file .env -v ./data:/app/data gogobee

Docker Compose

docker compose up -d

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Configuration

Everything is configured through environment variables or a .env file.

Required

Variable	Description
HOMESERVER_URL	Matrix homeserver URL, e.g. https://matrix.org
BOT_USER_ID	Bot's Matrix user ID, e.g. @gogobee:matrix.org
BOT_PASSWORD	Bot's Matrix password

Core (optional)

Variable	Default	Description
DATA_DIR	./data	Where the database and device files live
BOT_DISPLAY_NAME	GogoBee	Display name
LOG_LEVEL	info	debug, info, warn, or error
ADMIN_USERS		Comma-separated admin user IDs
BROADCAST_ROOMS		Comma-separated room IDs for scheduled posts

API Keys (optional)

Variable	Service	Used By
RAWG_API_KEY	RAWG	!game, !retro, !releases
WORDNIK_API_KEY	Wordnik	Word of the Day
CALENDARIFIC_API_KEY	Calendarific	Holiday posts
OPENWEATHER_API_KEY	OpenWeather	!weather
FINNHUB_API_KEY	Finnhub	!stock
BANDSINTOWN_API_KEY	Bandsintown	!concerts
TMDB_API_KEY	TMDB	!movie, !tv, !upcoming

Services (optional)

Variable	Description
OLLAMA_HOST	Ollama server URL, e.g. http://localhost:11434
OLLAMA_MODEL	Model name, e.g. llama3.2
LIBRETRANSLATE_URL	LibreTranslate instance for !translate

Feature Flags

Variable	Description
FEATURE_URL_PREVIEW	Set to anything to enable automatic URL previews
FEATURE_SHADE	Set to anything to enable the shade plugin (stub)

Rate Limits

Variable	Default	Description
RATELIMIT_TRANSLATE	20	Daily translation limit per user

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Running the Bot

# dev
go run -tags goolm .

# prod
go build -tags goolm -o gogobee .
./gogobee

The -tags goolm flag selects the pure-Go crypto implementation. No C compiler or libolm needed.

First Run

1. Start the bot. It logs in, creates a device, and sets up cross-signing automatically.
2. Verify the bot's device from your main Matrix account (Element, etc).
3. That's it. E2EE works across restarts from here on out.

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Commands

XP & Leveling

Command	Description
!rank	Your level, XP, and progress
!leaderboard	Top 10 by XP

Reputation

Command	Description
!rep [@user]	Reputation count
!repboard	Top 10 by rep

Rep is earned when someone thanks you. The bot detects this automatically.

Stats & Personality

Command	Description
!stats [@user]	Message statistics
!rankings [category]	Rankings by words, links, questions, or emojis
!personality	Your community archetype

Streaks

Command	Description
!streak	Current and longest streak
!firstboard	Top first-posters-of-the-day

Trivia

Command	Description
!trivia [category] [difficulty]	Start a question
!trivia scores	Room leaderboard
!trivia categories	List categories
!trivia fastest	Fastest answers
!trivia stop	End current question

Reminders

Command	Description
!remindme <time> <message>	Set a reminder (natural language)
!reminders	Your pending reminders
!unremind <id>	Cancel a reminder

Presence

Command	Description
!away [message]	Set away status
!afk [message]	Same as away
!back	Clear away/afk
!whois @user	Profile card

Fun

Command	Description
!roll [NdM+X]	Dice (default 1d6)
!8ball <question>	Magic 8-ball
!coin	Coin flip
!time [city]	World clock
!hltb <game>	How Long To Beat
!twinbee	Twinbee series lore
!poll <q> | <a> | <b>...	Reaction poll
!weather <location>	Weather (needs API key)
!dadjoke	Dad joke
!randomwiki	Random Wikipedia article

Tools

Command	Description
!calc <expression>	Calculator, understands "5 plus 3"
!qr <text>	Generate QR code

Games & Entertainment

Command	Description
!game <query> / !retro <query>	Game lookup (RAWG)
!releases [month|search <q>]	Game releases
!releasewatch add|list|remove	Release watchlist
!stock <ticker>	Stock quote (Finnhub)
!stockwatch add|list|remove	Stock watchlist
!concerts <artist>	Concert search
!concerts watch|watching|unwatch	Concert watchlist
!anime <title>	Anime search (MAL)
!anime watch|watching|unwatch|season|upcoming	Anime features
!movie <title> / !tv <title>	Movie/TV search (TMDB)
!movie watch|watching|unwatch	Movie watchlist
!upcoming movies	Upcoming movies

Lookup

Command	Description
!wiki <topic>	Wikipedia summary
!define <word>	Dictionary definition
!urban <term>	Urban Dictionary
!translate [lang] <text>	Translate (needs LibreTranslate)

Personal

Command	Description
!settz <timezone>	Set timezone (IANA)
!mytz	Your timezone and current time
!timezone list	Common timezones
!np [track]	Now playing
!quote	Random saved quote
!backlog add|list|random|done	Personal backlog
!watch <keyword>	DM alerts for a keyword
!watching	List keyword watches
!unwatch <keyword>	Remove watch

Countdowns

Command	Description
!countdown add "<label>" <YYYY-MM-DD>	Public countdown
!countdown private "<label>" <YYYY-MM-DD>	Private countdown
!countdown mine	Your countdowns
!countdown remove <id>	Remove one
!countdown [id]	List all or show one

Birthdays

Command	Description
!birthday set <MM-DD[-YYYY]>	Set birthday
!birthday remove	Remove birthday
!birthday show	Show yours
!birthdays	Upcoming (next 30 days)

LLM (requires Ollama)

Command	Description
!howami [@user]	Roast profile
!vibe	Room energy check
!tldr	Summarize recent chat
!potty [@user]	Profanity count
!pottyboard	Profanity leaderboard
!insults [@user]	Insult stats
!insultboard	Insult leaderboard

Other

Command	Description
!achievements [@user]	Unlocked achievements
!wotd	Today's Word of the Day (use it in chat for 25 XP)
!botinfo	Bot diagnostics (admin only)
!help	DMs the full command list

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Passive Features

All of these run in the background without any commands:

• XP - 10 XP per message with 30s cooldown. Level-up announcements use Twinbee/Parodius themed messages.
• Stats - tracks words, chars, links, images, questions, emojis, and time-of-day patterns
• Streaks - consecutive days active, first poster of the day
• Reputation - detects "thanks", "ty", "thx", etc. with 24h cooldown per pair
• Achievements - 32 of them, checked silently on every message
• Markov chains - collects messages for !markov generation (10k cap per user)
• Keyword alerts - DMs you when someone says your watched keywords
• Presence - auto-clears away/afk when you send a message
• Room milestones - announces at 1k, 5k, 10k, 25k, 50k, 100k, 250k, 500k, 1M messages
• URL previews - OG tag extraction (feature-flagged, off by default)
• Reactions - logs all reactions for !emojiboard
• LLM classification - sentiment, profanity, insults, WOTD usage (needs Ollama)
• Quotes - star-react any message to save it

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Scheduled Posts

Uses robfig/cron. All times UTC.

Time	Job	What it does
00:05	Prefetch	Grabs WOTD data ahead of time
06:00	Birthdays	Birthday shoutouts + 100 XP
07:00	Holidays	Multi-calendar holidays (US, Asian, Jewish, Islamic)
08:00	WOTD	Posts the Word of the Day
09:00 Mon	Releases	Weekly game releases
10:00	Anime	Anime airing today
11:00	Movies	Movie releases today
12:00 Sun	Concerts	Weekly concert digest
Every 30s	Reminders	Fires pending reminders

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Achievements

32 achievements:

Message Milestones - first_message, 100_messages, 1000_messages, 10000_messages

Time-Based - night_owl (100 night msgs), early_bird (100 morning msgs)

Content - wordsmith (avg >8 words), link_collector (50 links), shutterbug (20 images), question_master (100 questions)

Social - welcome_wagon (first message), rep_magnet (10 rep received)

Streaks - week_streak (7 days), month_streak (30 days)

Trivia - trivia_novice (10 correct), trivia_master (100 correct)

Special - markov_victim (got markov'd), logophile (used 10 WOTDs)

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Personality Archetypes

Assigned based on your message patterns:

Archetype	What it means
Chatterbox	You talk a lot
Novelist	Long messages
Inquisitor	Always asking questions
Linkmaster	Shares lots of links
Shutterbug	Lots of images
Enthusiast	Exclamation marks!
Regular	Solid community member

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External APIs

All optional. The bot works fine without any of them, you just won't have those specific features.

Service	Free?	What for
RAWG	Yes	Game lookups, releases
Wordnik	Yes	Word of the Day
Calendarific	Yes (1k/mo)	Holiday calendar
HebCal	Yes, no key	Jewish holidays
Aladhan	Yes, no key	Islamic dates
OpenWeather	Yes (1k/day)	Weather
Finnhub	Yes	Stock quotes
Bandsintown	Yes	Concert data
Jikan/MAL	Yes, no key	Anime data
TMDB	Yes	Movie/TV data
OpenTDB	Yes, no key	Trivia questions
Wikipedia	Yes, no key	Wiki summaries
Free Dictionary	Yes, no key	Definitions
Urban Dictionary	Yes, no key	Slang
icanhazdadjoke	Yes, no key	Dad jokes
LibreTranslate	Self-host	Translation
Ollama	Self-host	LLM features

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Architecture

gogobee/
├── main.go                  # Entry point, plugin registration, cron setup
├── go.mod / go.sum
├── internal/
│   ├── bot/
│   │   ├── client.go        # mautrix client + E2EE (cryptohelper + goolm)
│   │   └── dispatch.go      # Plugin registry, event dispatch
│   ├── db/
│   │   └── db.go            # SQLite schema (40+ tables), migrations
│   ├── plugin/
│   │   ├── plugin.go        # Plugin interface, Base helpers, context types
│   │   ├── xp.go            # XP & leveling
│   │   ├── reputation.go    # Thanks detection
│   │   ├── stats.go         # Message stats & milestones
│   │   ├── streaks.go       # Daily streaks
│   │   ├── trivia.go        # OpenTDB trivia
│   │   ├── reminders.go     # Reminders
│   │   ├── presence.go      # Away/AFK
│   │   ├── fun.go           # Dice, 8ball, polls, weather, etc.
│   │   ├── tools.go         # Calculator, QR codes
│   │   ├── user.go          # Timezone, quotes, backlog, keyword watches
│   │   ├── welcome.go       # New user detection, !help
│   │   ├── achievements.go  # 32 achievements
│   │   ├── reactions.go     # Reaction logging, emojiboard
│   │   ├── markov.go        # Markov chains
│   │   ├── urls.go          # URL previews
│   │   ├── llm_passive.go   # Ollama sentiment/profanity
│   │   ├── wotd.go          # Word of the Day
│   │   ├── holidays.go      # Multi-calendar holidays
│   │   ├── gaming.go        # Game releases
│   │   ├── birthday.go      # Birthdays
│   │   ├── retro.go         # Game lookups (RAWG)
│   │   ├── lookup.go        # Wiki, dictionary, urban, translate
│   │   ├── countdown.go     # Countdowns
│   │   ├── stocks.go        # Stocks
│   │   ├── concerts.go      # Concerts
│   │   ├── anime.go         # Anime
│   │   ├── movies.go        # Movies/TV
│   │   ├── botinfo.go       # Admin diagnostics
│   │   ├── howami.go        # LLM roasts
│   │   ├── vibe.go          # Room vibe, TLDR
│   │   ├── shade.go         # Stub
│   │   └── ratelimits.go    # Rate limiting
│   └── util/
│       ├── auth.go          # Matrix login, token check
│       ├── logger.go        # slog logging
│       └── parser.go        # Message parsing, XP math, archetypes

Why Go?

E2EE - The TS version used matrix-js-sdk with fake-indexeddb for an in-memory crypto store. Every restart wiped device keys and required re-verification in all encrypted rooms. mautrix-go stores crypto state in SQLite. Verify once, it sticks.

Deployment - Pure Go, no CGo. go build -tags goolm gives you a static binary with zero system dependencies. The TS version needed Node.js, npm, a C compiler for better-sqlite3, and libolm.

Scheduler - Replaced a hand-rolled 60s tick loop with robfig/cron. Standard cron expressions, less code, fewer bugs.

Plugins - Go interfaces + struct embedding instead of abstract classes. Same pattern, less boilerplate.

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Database

Single SQLite file at $DATA_DIR/gogobee.db. Schema auto-creates on first run. WAL mode enabled.

40+ tables covering users, XP, stats, streaks, reputation, reminders, trivia, achievements, quotes, backlog, keyword watches, scheduler config, birthdays, LLM classifications, stocks, concerts, anime, movies, countdowns, presence, markov corpus, reaction log, and various caches.

Backup

# safe to run while the bot is up (WAL mode)
sqlite3 data/gogobee.db ".backup data/gogobee-backup.db"

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Troubleshooting

E2EE

E2EE should just work after the initial device verification. If something goes wrong:

1. On first run, the bot sets up cross-signing automatically. Verify its device from your account once.
2. After restarts, the bot reuses its saved device and crypto state. No re-verification needed.
3. If things are really broken, delete data/device.json and data/gogobee.db to start fresh. You'll need to verify again.

Bot not responding in encrypted rooms

• Make sure you verified the bot's device
• Check that the bot joined the room (it auto-joins on invite)
• Look at logs for decryption errors

API commands not working

• Check that the relevant API key is set in .env
• Look at logs for error messages
• Most APIs have rate limits; the bot caches responses to stay within them

Build errors about libolm

# use the goolm tag:
go build -tags goolm -o gogobee .

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License

MIT