c-cube/ocabot

IRC bot for #ocaml@freenode

OCabot

IRC bot for "#OCaml" on freenode

It can be interacted with using !-prefixed commands. !help lists these.

• New factoids can be added using !foo = bar, which will cause !foo to answer bar in the future.
• !search <pat> and !search_all <pat> perform basic search among factoids.
• !help or !help <command> provide help.
• !history lists a few recent messages on #ocaml.
• !seen <nick> will report last time the given nickname was seen speaking on the channel.

Build

• opam pin add calculon https://github.com/c-cube/calculon.git
• make
• ./ocabot.native

License

MIT, see LICENSE

ocabot's Issues

metrics on channels

• activity (number of messages / hour)
• number of connected people
• number of active people
• a way to output stats at some public URL (pastebin?!)

sample all this every 30 min or so, store it. Will need johnelse/ocaml-irc-client#25

Impossible to connect to freenode if nick is in use

When trying to connect to freenode without changing the nickname (and "ocabot" is already used by the bot on #ocaml), output on console stops with "Log: got 6 commands from 3 plugins".

have `!tell` always work in query

Avoid spamming on channels; if someone is active again, deliver messages in query.