IRC Bot

Here is a simple IRC bot based on the PircBot Java API available at jibble.org.

The bot currently responds to a few public commands:

@help	prints out the public commands the bot responds to
@8ball question	random 8ball response
@spin	point to one of the 10 most recently active users
@addquote user quote	store a particularly memorable quote from the specified user
@quotelist	list all users that have a quote stored
@quote	prints a random quote
@quote user	prints a random quote from the user
@seen user	prints the last thing the user said, and how long ago that was

The bot also takes a few private commands, which are accessible via private messages sent to the bot

save	immediately save quote and seen data
print	print all stored quotes
print user	print all stored quotes from the user
delquotes password user	delete all quotes from the user
delquotes password user index	delete the specified quote from the user
seenlist user	print the 10 most recently active users
@quote	similar to public command, but the bot responds privately
@quote user	similar to public command, but the bot responds privately

The bot takes four arguments:

name - what name and login the bot will use
channel_password - channel password
private_password - private password
channel - what channel to join

On the channel I have the bot run in, there is another bot in charge of granting ops. So, channel_password is what I had configured my bot's ops password to be. If you don't need this, see the OnJoin function in MyBot.java and comment out that sendNotice where the channel_password is sent.

private_password is what the bot uses to check if it is OK to delete another user's quotes. This isn't meant to be ultra high security, just a minimal barrier to prevent anybody from easily deleting stored quotes.

Planned enhancements

Reorganize the code to read an XML settings file. The file will have config info: which commands to implement, how often to save, what channel to join, the 8ball strings to use, etc.

View the source

MyBot.java - this is 90% of the code.

MyBotMain.java.

ircUser.java.

saveThread.java.

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