Pip boy is the name of the arm computer in the video game Fallout that you use to handle your inventory, quests and maps. It's the inspiration for pipbot. A Google chat bot that you can use to handle your [enter anything here]. It's built on the NodeJS platform in Javascript.

You need a Google Service Account. Google has some documentation on how to setup a Bot. Publishing bots

The outcome of that is a .json file. Set GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS environment variable with the path to the credentials file that you downloaded when creating the Bot. I called it chatbot.json and in a file called .env, I set the environment variable like the following.

GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS="chatbot.json"

I ran this on Glitch to have a publicly accessible URL for Google Chat to call. So, after setting this code up on Glitch and setting the CHATBOT_URI environment variable with the URI I specified when configuring the chat bot on Google, I added a console.log(req.headers) to server.mjs in the server.post handler for the CHATBOT_URI and sent a message to the bot from Hangouts Chat in order to copy and paste the BEARER token that Hangouts Chat service sends as part of the request to the chat bot, as an environment variable. The code decrypts that token and "checks it" in order to validate that the request is legitimately coming from Hangouts Chat.

Once you've got those environment variables defined in the .env file (on Glitch, that file isn't shared with others), then you should be good to go.

npm i
npm run build
npm t
npm run dev

The assumption here is that in production, the hosting environment will have a way to set those environment variables.

npm i
npm start