IRC Bot

A simple IRC Bot written in Python To start it just cd to the src directory and type ./ircbot.py, although before using the bot it's recommended to check the config first.

The bot can handle multiple channels at a time, also if you want to have a private discussion it can be queried (/query PPyBot).

IRC Protocol reference: RFC 1459

Documentation

Sphinx docs to come

Commands

• !google <search term>
  • returns a link and a short description of the first Google search result
  • see Dependencies: !google
• !wiki <search term>
  • replies a wikipedia link for <search term> along with the first paragraph from the page
• !quit [#channel ]+
  • disconnects the bot from the given list of channels
  • if no arguments are given, all connected channels are disconnected
  • if some arguments are provided the bot checks the channel names and disconnects only the valid ones
  • if no channel is "alive" then the bot closes
  • Example: !quit #foo #bar - quits from #foo and #bar
  • see Config: owner, channels
• !join <#channel >+
  • the bot joins the given channels, minimum one channel name must be supplied
  • see Config: owner
• !channels
  • replies a list containing the channels the bot is connected to
  • see Config: owner
• !help
  • list all available commands
• !answer
  • you'll find the answer through this command
• !weather <city> or !weather <city>, <state or country>
  • replies some info related to the current weather conditions from the given location
• !about
  • a few words about this software
• !mball
  • the famous Magic Ball
• !uptime
  • shows current uptime of the bot
• !so <search term>
  • replies the first question's title and URL from the search result
  • see Dependencies: !so
• !twitter [username]
  • replies the latest tweet(along with the tweet date) for the username provided
  • the date will have the following format: DD/MM/YYYY HH:MM
  • if no username is provided then the bot will try to get the latest tweet for the IRC-user who issued the command

Total: 13 commands

Auto-commands

• email_alert - the bot sends an email to the owner when somebody talks to him

Total: 1 auto-command

Adding commands

1. In src/config.py you must add the name of the command to the cmds_list's end(without !)
2. In src/cmds/ directory you must create a file named after your command
3. Into the newly created file you must define a function named after your command that takes one parameter, this parameter will contain the command components sent by the user, the function must return either a message(string) to be sent on the channel, either a list, first item being a command(other than PRIVMSG which is added automatically if needed) and the second being the command's arguments.

E.g.:

If you want to create a command !ncmd, you must follow these steps:

1. Add 'ncmd' to the cmds_list in src/config.py
2. Create src/cmds/ncmd.py
3. In src/cmds/ncmd.py define def dance(param):, param will hold the users command components(see src/parser.py) in case you must do some checkings, it must return a message(eg. return 'Dance time!', in this case src/ircbot.py will automatically add PRIVMSG at the beginning and \r\n at the end) or a list(eg. return ['JOIN ', '#chan1,#chan2'], in this case the list will be joined and \r\n added at the end)

If you want to create a command that the bot should execute if something happens on the chat (not if the command is manually triggered) you should add the command name to the auto_cmds_list insead of cmds_list.

Config

See src/config.py:

• owner - the users who are allowed to send a specific command to the bot (for example the !quit command)
• log - path to the logging directory, all logs are stored here
• server - server to connect to (default: chat.freenode.net)
• port - port number to use (default: 6667)
• channels - a list of channels to connect to
• nicks - a list of strings, the bot's name will be the first unused nick from this list or the first nick in the list and a random sequence appended if all nicks are used
• real_name - bot's "real name"
• cmds_list - a list of strings that the bot knows to answer to
• auto_cmds_list - a list of commands defined as regular commands with the only difference that they cannot be invoked by users, the bot executes them as result of an event

Dependencies

• !weather, !twitter and !wiki module depends on BeautifulSoup
  • !weather and !twitter depends on BeautifulStoneSoup (XML)
  • !wiki depends on BeautifulSoup (HTML)
• !google module depends on Google Custom Search API
  • before using the bot please see the installation page
• !so module depends on StackExchange API

License

(C) Copyright 2011-2013 Barbu Paul - Gheorghe

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.