| Info: | See github <http://github.com/czocher/roborex> for the latest source. |
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| Author: | Paweł Jan Czochański <[email protected]> |
RoboRex is a very simple irc bot written in Python without any external dependencies. It's very small (200 lines of code) and easy to expand with modules.
Copy the default_config.py file and set all needed parameters.
Run the bot with the python3 bot.py config_file.py command.
Run python3 bot.py for usage info.
Bot functionalities can be expanded with simple functions matched using IRC events or regular expressions. Some simple, well-commented examples can be found in the example_module.py file.
In the action.py file a action decorator and a MultiAction class are defined which simplify module writing. More information regarding module writing can be found in the example_module file.
At least one event or rule must be given for each bot action, if a rule and an event is given at the same time, rules have priority over events.
Simple function example:
@action(events=('PRIVMSG',))
def repeat(bot, message, *args, **kwargs):
"""Repeat every message on the chat."""
bot.say(message.content, message.channel)
The bot actions recieve the following named parameters on input:
- bot - the main bot object.
- message - a object containing the full information about the recived IRC message. For more information see the message definition in the message.py file.
- match - the regexp match object returned after a successful re.match python operation.
If you need your own configuration options (eg. for your own module) you can access them from the bot.config class field.
Useful bot class methods:
- command(args) - perform the given command on the server
- say(message, to_whom, action=False) - sends the given string as PRIVMSG to the given nick or channel. If no recipient specified the PRIVMSG is sent to all channels, if action == True, then message is sent as an action.