Scibby is a plugin based IRC bot written in Python, using Twisted.
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In the scibby directory run python -m scibby.client or run the run_scibby.sh script to start it daemonized.
Make a ~/.config/scibby/config file, the section is called [general], you can configure: - host - port - channels (comma seperated list) - nickname - plugins_directory (defaults to ~/.scibby/plugins)