frumiousbandersnatch/rocksbot

Full-featured Perl IRC bot, multi-threaded, supports | piping | commands, extensible via plugins, GPLv3

RocksBot

Rocksbot is a Perl IRC bot based on the Perl Object Environment (POE) framework. Rocksbot is multi-threaded, can run as a daemon (if desired), and is extensible via plugins. Sample plugins are provided.

Rocksbot supports user accounts and has a highly customizable permissions system, as well as a built-in help system. For developers, built-in functions make saving and retrieving data, grabbing URLS, publishing HTML pages, and shortening URL's a snap. All data is stored in a sqlite database.

Rocksbot makes use of "command line" flags to make argument order less important. (Example: login -password=blah).

Commands can be piped, similar to many *nix command shells. (Example: To get a fortune, translate it to german, then color the output like a rainbow: .fortune | german | rainbow )

Rocksbot is available according to the terms the GNU General Public License, version 3 (GPLv3).

Installation

1. Download and extract the package, or issue a git clone.
2. Create the makefile: perl ./Makefile.PL
3. Run the makefile to install required packages: make
4. Copy rocksbot.cfg.sample to rocksbot.cfg.
5. Edit rocksbot.cfg with your desired settings.
6. Execute the program with ./rocksbot.pl

See the "INSTALL" file for additional details.

Note: All the installer does is attempt to install the missing perl modules. Free free to install them via cpan if you'd prefer.

Getting started

On first run, an admin user will be created using the username and password specified in the config file. You should log-in (login -username=whatever -password=whatever) and change the admin password.

To get information about the installed plugins, issue the .help command. (Assuming that you're using a . as the bot command prefix.) To get a list of commands contained in each plugin, issue a .help PluginName. To get help with a particular command, issue a .help CommandName, or .help PluginName CommandName. To get information about a command + flag combo, use .help CommandName -flag. To get general information about a command or plugin, use .help --info. To generate a customized HTML help file, use .allhelp