/irc_scraper

Ruby-based 'bot to collect revisions from Wikimedia's IRC annoucement channels.

Primary LanguageRubyOtherNOASSERTION

EnWikiBot

EnWikiBot is an IRC Bot intended to grab revision data from the Wikipedia IRC revision announcement channels.

Connection

To connect the IRC bot to a channel, run the start.rb file in the bin directory. For example,

$ ruby bin/start.rb -s irc.freenode.net -c en_wiki_bot

At a minimum, the server and channel parameters are required. See –help for more options.

To disconnect, run the stop.rb file in the bin directory.

ruby bin/stop.rb

Tests

To run the tests do:

$ cat test/*.rb | ruby

Commands

EnWikiBot

Background

Based in part on blog.webicity.info/2010/10/14/a-quick-basic-primer-on-the-irc-protocol/.

About

Version

0.1

Author

Avantika Agrawal, Phillip Baker, Brittney Exline

Copyright

Copyright © 2010 Avantika Agrawal, Phillip Baker, Brittney Exline. Some portions of the code Copyright © 2010 Joshua J. Born

License

MIT license for Ruby code. See LICENSE in this directory for details.