NOTE

This project is no longer actively updated.

Development has moved to the Python and Weechat based variant of this bot project.

irssibot

This is an IRC bot implementation built with irssi Perl scripting.
(c) 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 GPLv2+ - There may be dragons.

You may need some or all of these Ubuntu packages: irssi, mysql-server, libdbi-perl, libwww-perl, liburi-escape-perl, libhtml-html5-entities-perl, libxml-xpath-perl

Quick install guide:

• Create a new user 'irssibot' (or joe, polly or finnigan...)
• Checkout this repo in $HOME

$ cd $HOME
$ git clone https://github.com/sndrsmnk/irssibot.git
$ mv -n .irssi OLD.irssi
$ ln -sf irssibot/irssi .irssi

• Set up a proper .my.cnf file to connect to MySQL:

 $ cat $HOME/.my.cnf
 [client]
 user=irssibot
 password=s00p3rzeeKRiT!
 host=foo.example
 database=irssibot

• Create the database, grant the rights, etc. use $HOME/.irssi/irssibot/mysql/dbschema.mysql as schema
• Start irssi, read the script output in irssi status window as it shows the 'unique id' of the bot and how to claim ownership.
• Set up irssi as you would normally do, configure networks, servers, channels, specify auto{connect,join} etc.
  • I would advise not to run other plugins with this bot, they may clash.
  • You might want to disable irssi's flood protection features if you plan to use the UDP listener a lot:
    • /set cmds_max_at_once 0
    • /set cmd_queue_speed 0msec
• Join IRC, claim the bot, use !help, read the source and remember that i didn't write this for you, i wrote this for me. ;)

UDP listener

To configure the UDP-listener, you may need to set some configuration options after the bot was claimed. A module named 'set' can be used by the owner to set (almost) any value in the bot's state hash:

!set udp_listen_ip ::ffff:127.0.0.1
!set udp_listen_port 47774
!set udp_listen_pass s00p3rzeeKRiT!

NOTE: The udp_listen_ip must be specified in IP6 notation. Prepend ::ffff: to IPv4 addresses if used.

After changing these values, use the !udp-reopen command to re-open ('restart') the UDP-listener.
Use the !save command to make the configuration permanent.

You can now send UDP-datagrams to the IP and port specified to have the bot output them on IRC:

$ echo "s00p3rzeeKRiT! #testchan Test message via UDP" | nc -q1 -u 127.0.0.1 47774

If the bot is on multiple networks with the same channelname, you can specify the irssi network name to help the bot decide where to output the message:

$ echo "s00p3rzeeKRiT! ircnet #testchan Test message on ircnet via UDP" | nc -q1 -u 127.0.0.1 47774