It's been a while since AquaShell finally reached a point where it is stable enough to be used for real-world applications.

Meanwhile I have created various scripts that serve productive purposes. In this blog post I want to introduce some of them.

For instance, I've created a Twitch Chatbot that can be very useful for various situations:

Print useful links to various resources of the streamer
Print GitHub stats of a repository
Post some random quotes
Let's users interact with each other


I've also created a Hotkey Manager for Heroes of the Storm. This script allows you to post user defined chat messages upon pressing a key. Of course the script detects if the game is currently in foreground before simulating the required keys to post to the chat. There is also a possibility to bind many different chat messages to a single key, which are iterated over and then start from the beginning again. I personally use this one to post some funny HotS jokes into the chat upon occassion.



Furthermore I've recently created a script for the HortusFox community feature. The script checks if a new community photo is uploaded and - if that's the case - it will post it to Mastodon. The script is executed via a cronjob each 10 hours. While AquaShell is developed for Windows, in this case the script is executed with AquaShell using WINE on Ubuntu on a DigitalOcean droplet. And it works really fine.


* */10 * * *  bash -c 'aquashell -e "scripts/mastodon/bot.dnys" >> /root/cronjob.log'


The executable file aquashell is a bash script that actually runs AquaShell under WINE passing possible arguments.


#!/bin/bash
cd /bin/AquaShell
WINEDEBUG=-all wine dnyAquaShell.exe "$@"


I'm looking forward to creating many more scripts and scripted applications using AquaShell.