/twitchplaysNES

An extensible (via commands) IRC Bot written in Python

Primary LanguagePythonGNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

IRC Bot

A simple IRC Bot written in Python To start it just cd to the src directory and type ./ircbot.py, although before using the bot it's recommended to check the config first.

The bot can handle multiple channels at a time, also if you want to have a private discussion it can be queried (/query PPyBot).

IRC Protocol reference: RFC 1459

Adding commands

  1. In src/config.py you must add the name of the command to the cmds_list's end(without !)
  2. In src/cmds/ directory you must create a file named after your command
  3. Into the newly created file you must define a function named after your command that takes one parameter, this parameter will contain the command components sent by the user, the function must return either a message(string) to be sent on the channel, either a list, first item being a command(other than PRIVMSG which is added automatically if needed) and the second being the command's arguments.

E.g.:

If you want to create a command !ncmd, you must follow these steps:

  1. Add 'ncmd' to the cmds_list in src/config.py
  2. Create src/cmds/ncmd.py
  3. In src/cmds/ncmd.py define def dance(param):, param will hold the users command components(see src/parser.py) in case you must do some checkings, it must return a message(eg. return 'Dance time!', in this case src/ircbot.py will automatically add PRIVMSG at the beginning and \r\n at the end) or a list(eg. return ['JOIN ', '#chan1,#chan2'], in this case the list will be joined and \r\n added at the end)

If you want to create a command that the bot should execute if something happens on the chat (not if the command is manually triggered) you should add the command name to the auto_cmds_list insead of cmds_list.

Config

See src/config.py:

  • owner - the users who are allowed to send a specific command to the bot (for example the !quit command)
  • log - path to the logging directory, all logs are stored here
  • server - server to connect to (default: chat.freenode.net)
  • port - port number to use (default: 6667)
  • channels - a list of channels to connect to
  • nicks - a list of strings, the bot's name will be the first unused nick from this list or the first nick in the list and a random sequence appended if all nicks are used
  • real_name - bot's "real name"
  • cmds_list - a list of strings that the bot knows to answer to
  • auto_cmds_list - a list of commands defined as regular commands with the only difference that they cannot be invoked by users, the bot executes them as result of an event

Dependencies

When I implement the functionality for this to press buttons it will depend upon PyAutoGUI for those to work. PyAutoGUI can be found here: https://github.com/asweigart/pyautogui

License

The Licence for the thing that I originally forked it from: (C) Copyright 2011-2014 Barbu Paul - Gheorghe

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.