I came across the new Stack Overflow Bot by Microsoft on the Stack Overflow blog and decided to give it a try.
After installing Node V8.1.4 for macOS, I installed the bot by running npm install in the StackBot directory. There weren't many issues, except for a warning returned.
MacBook-Air:StackBot USER$ npm install
npm WARN stackbot@1.0.0 No repository field.
up to date in 1.248s
Afterwards, I tried running the bot, using npm run start. The bot failed to startup and gave this error.
MacBook-Air:StackBot USER$ npm run start
> stackbot@1.0.0 start /Users/USER/Downloads/BotFramework-Samples-master/StackOverflow-Bot/StackBot
> node index.js
Missing one of BOTBUILDER_APP_ID, BOTBUILDER_APP_PASSWORD, LUIS_MODEL, KB_ID, QNA_KEY, QNA_URL, BING_SEARCH_CONFIG, BING_SEARCH_KEY, TEXT_ANALYTICS_KEY, TEXT_ANALYTICS_URL, DIALOG_ANALYZER_CLIENTID, DIALOG_ANALYZER_KEY or DIALOG_ANALYZER_URL in environment variables!
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! stackbot@1.0.0 start: `node index.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the stackbot@1.0.0 start script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /Users/USER/.npm/_logs/2017-09-25T12_56_14_988Z-debug.log
The complete log is as follows:
0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 verbose cli [ '/usr/local/bin/node', '/usr/local/bin/npm', 'run', 'start' ]
2 info using npm@5.0.3
3 info using node@v8.1.4
4 verbose run-script [ 'prestart', 'start', 'poststart' ]
5 info lifecycle stackbot@1.0.0~prestart: stackbot@1.0.0
6 silly lifecycle stackbot@1.0.0~prestart: no script for prestart, continuing
7 info lifecycle stackbot@1.0.0~start: stackbot@1.0.0
8 verbose lifecycle stackbot@1.0.0~start: unsafe-perm in lifecycle true
9 verbose lifecycle stackbot@1.0.0~start: PATH: /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/node-gyp-bin:/Users/USER/Downloads/BotFramework-Samples-master/StackOverflow-Bot/StackBot/node_modules/.bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin
10 verbose lifecycle stackbot@1.0.0~start: CWD: /Users/USER/Downloads/BotFramework-Samples-master/StackOverflow-Bot/StackBot
11 silly lifecycle stackbot@1.0.0~start: Args: [ '-c', 'node index.js' ]
12 silly lifecycle stackbot@1.0.0~start: Returned: code: 1 signal: null
13 info lifecycle stackbot@1.0.0~start: Failed to exec start script
14 verbose stack Error: stackbot@1.0.0 start: `node index.js`
14 verbose stack Exit status 1
14 verbose stack at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/lifecycle.js:283:16)
14 verbose stack at emitTwo (events.js:125:13)
14 verbose stack at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:213:7)
14 verbose stack at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/spawn.js:40:14)
14 verbose stack at emitTwo (events.js:125:13)
14 verbose stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:213:7)
14 verbose stack at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:897:16)
14 verbose stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:208:5)
15 verbose pkgid stackbot@1.0.0
16 verbose cwd /Users/USER/Downloads/BotFramework-Samples-master/StackOverflow-Bot/StackBot
17 verbose Darwin 16.7.0
18 verbose argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "run" "start"
19 verbose node v8.1.4
20 verbose npm v5.0.3
21 error code ELIFECYCLE
22 error errno 1
23 error stackbot@1.0.0 start: `node index.js`
23 error Exit status 1
24 error Failed at the stackbot@1.0.0 start script.
24 error This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
25 verbose exit [ 1, true ]
What is causing this error and is there a way to solve this?