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Butler.js is the voice driven, portable butler for your personal needs.
You can easily customize it to your needs and he will never betray you.
Butler is developed with the aim of making life simpler for developers and designers, specifically in debugging/drafting.
What you would have done before through the keyboard and scripts can now be done by commanding Butler by voice.
With a bit of healthy humor and fun.
Butler.js is developed by 720kb.
Many libraries offer the possibility to activate voice commands, Butler offers the same but it starts with already defined commands that can help you debugging or anyway to have fun while debugging and make your life simpler in the browser daily routine.
Plus you have the ability to write your own plugins (and this is very easy) to expand the abilities of Butler at your leisure.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="../path/to/butler.min.js"></script>
</head>
bower install butler.js
npm install butler.js
document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function() {
Butler.start();
});
Default voice commands you can abuse of. (many others are coming...)
Common commands for Butler
Command | Result |
---|---|
Butler speak | Turn on Butler voice |
Butler silence | Turn off Butler voice |
Commands to select, visualize and manipulate the DOM elements
Command | Result |
---|---|
Selector on | Turn on selector highlighter |
Selector off | Turn off selector highlighter |
Selector next | Select next element in the DOM |
Selector back | Select previous element in the DOM |
Selector next id :detection: | Select next element in the DOM by detected id value |
Selector next class :detection: | Select next element in the DOM by detected class name |
Selector next tag :detection: | Select next element by detected tag name |
Selector back id :detection: | Select previous element by detected id value |
Selector back class :detection: | Select next element by detected class name |
Selector back tag :detection: | Select next element by detected tag name |
Selector add class :detection: | Add detected class name to the current selected DOM element |
Selector remove class :detection: | Remove detected class name from the current selected DOM element |
Selector add id :detection: | Add detected id value to the current selected DOM element |
Selector put value :detection: | Add detected value to the current selected DOM element (helpful for inputs) |
Selector insert text :detection: | Insert detected text inside the current selected DOM element |
Selector empty text | Remove all the text from the current selected DOM element |
Selector copy text | Copy all the text from the current selected DOM element |
Selector paste text | Paste the previously copied text to the current selected DOM element |
Selector make editable | Make the current selected DOM element editable |
Selector not editable | Make the current selected DOM element not editable |
Selector make disabled | Make the current selected DOM element disabled |
Selector not disabled | Make the current selected DOM element not disabled |
Selector clone | Clone the current selected DOM element |
Selector append clone | Append the cloned element to the current selected DOM element |
Selector prepend clone | Prepend the cloned element to the current selected DOM element |
Selector delete | Delete the current selected DOM element |
Selector hide | Hide the current selected DOM element |
Selector show | Show the current selected DOM element |
Selector let me choose | Select yourself which DOM element by clicking the element |
Selector which | Show and alert the current selected DOM element informations |
Commands to trigger events and actions
Command | Result |
---|---|
Trigger click | Trigger click on the current selected DOM element |
Trigger focus | Trigger focus on the current selected DOM element |
Trigger fade | Trigger fade on the current selected DOM element |
Trigger pin | Trigger pin on the current selected DOM element |
Trigger blur | Trigger blur on the current selected DOM element |
Trigger submit | Trigger submit on the current selected DOM element |
Trigger select | Trigger select on the current selected DOM element |
Trigger change | Trigger change on the current selected DOM element |
Trigger show | Trigger show on the current selected DOM element |
Trigger reset | Trigger reset on the current selected DOM element |
Trigger play | Trigger play on the current selected DOM element |
Trigger pause | Trigger play on the current selected DOM element |
Trigger mouse over | Trigger mouseover on the current selected DOM element |
Trigger mouse up | Trigger mouseup on the current selected DOM element |
Trigger mouse down | Trigger mousedown on the current selected DOM element |
Trigger mouse leave | Trigger mouseover on the current selected DOM element |
Trigger mouse move | Trigger mousemove on the current selected DOM element |
Trigger mouse enter | Trigger mouseenter on the current selected DOM element |
Trigger mouse out | Trigger mouseout on the current selected DOM element |
Trigger drag | Trigger drag on the current selected DOM element |
Trigger drag start | Trigger dragstart on the current selected DOM element |
Trigger drag end | Trigger dragend on the current selected DOM element |
Trigger drag enter | Trigger dragenter on the current selected DOM element |
Trigger drag leave | Trigger dragleave on the current selected DOM element |
Trigger drag over | Trigger dragmove on the current selected DOM element |
Trigger drop | Trigger drop on the current selected DOM element |
Trigger touch start | Trigger touchstart on the current selected DOM element |
Trigger touch end | Trigger touchend on the current selected DOM element |
Trigger touch enter | Trigger touchenter on the current selected DOM element |
Trigger touch leave | Trigger touchleave on the current selected DOM element |
Trigger touch move | Trigger touchmove on the current selected DOM element |
Trigger touch cancel | Trigger touchcancel on the current selected DOM element |
Trigger scroll y | Trigger Y scroll on the current selected DOM element |
Trigger scroll x | Trigger X scroll on the current selected DOM element |
Commands to manipulate, trigger window
events and actions
Command | Result |
---|---|
Window scroll y | Trigger window Y scroll |
Window scroll x | Trigger window X scroll |
Window size | Alert window dimensions |
Commands to manipulate, navigate urls and history
Command | Result |
---|---|
Location refresh | Location refresh |
Location back | Go to previous location url |
Location forward | Go to next location url |
Location hashbang | Add hashbang at the end of the location url |
Commands to manipulate, trigger window.navigator
Command | Result |
---|---|
Navigator go online | Set online status |
Navigator go offline | Set offline status |
Navigator vibrate | Vibrate device |
Navigator which | Show and alert navigator informations |
Commands to manipulate and interact with the browser
Command | Result |
---|---|
Browser clean cookies | Clean browser cookies |
Browser clean session storage | Clean browser session storage |
Browser clean local storage | Clean browser local storage |
Butler can be used in various languages available here (Soon there will be more languages)
If you want Butler to understand italian language for example, just include the i18n italian file after butler main file:
<script src="butler.min.js"></script>
<script src="butler.it_IT.js"></script>
This way all the default commands gets translated to italian, you can check translations for each i18n file from their README file
Butler exposes some good stuff you can interact with.
You can check them all by:
window.console.info(Butler);
Highlighter is the Butler selector (taken from Highlighter.js), is the DOM surfer who take trace of the selected and current elements.
window.console.info('Which element are you on Butler?', Butler.Highlighter.element);
Clipboard is where Butler saves the last copied text and/or cloned element.
window.console.info('What you copied or cloned Butler?', Butler.Clipboard);
Voice is the Butler voice, simple.
Butler.Voice.volume = 0.5;
Butler.Voice.play();
Commands is the Object containing all the default Butler voice commands.
window.console.info('Which commands do you know Butler?', Butler.Commands);
If you need some of them to be run just do:
var ButlerCommand = Butler.Commands['selector on'];
ButlerCommand();
Available events
document.addEventListner('Butler:start', function (data) {
console.info('Butler is started and microfone is allowed', data);
});
document.addEventListner('Butler:end', function (data) {
console.info('Butler has stopped working', data);
});
document.addEventListner('Butler:detection', function (data) {
console.info('Butler has new detections', data);
});
document.addEventListner('Butler:detection-match', function (data) {
console.log('Butler detection is matching', data);
});
document.addEventListner('Butler:detection-not-match', function (data) {
console.log('Butler detection is not matching', data);
});
document.addEventListner('Butler:error', function (error) {
console.error('Butler returned an error', error);
});
Writing a plugin is very simple, all you have to do is to define new commands using the plug()
method.
If you want to access Butler tools have a look here
Example
butler.plugin.js
document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function () {
Butler.plug({
'do something when i say this sentence': function callback(){
window.alert('You said that sentence');
}
});
});
index.html
<head>
<script src="butler.min.js"></script>
<script src="butler.plugin.js"></script>
<script>
document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function () {
Butler.start();
});
</script>
</head>
Now all the butler.plugin.js defined commands and callbacks are plugged and can be used.
Please refer to annyang documentation to define new commands
Enable debug mode
document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function () {
Butler.start({
'debug':true
});
});
Google Chrome (latest versions)
http://caniuse.com/#feat=web-speech
We would be pleased if you help to develop and grow the project more and more.
The goal is to make the life of programmers and designers more simple and fun, so any suggestion, PR, and specially plugin is welcome and appreciated a lot.
Thank you.
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2015 Filippo Oretti, Dario Andrei
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
- Not ready for a production project
- Default commands may be changed or modified at any time, others will come soon
- The Speech Detection is still very slow sometimes, using https:// will be slighty faster
- If you have multiple tabs working on speech recognition and microphone there will be problems, please use Butler on a single browser tab and close the other tabs that are asking for your microphone
- to Google and Google developers, for the awesome webkit-speech API
- to https://github.com/TalAter/annyang developers and maintainers for the awesome library.