minervabot

It's a modular IRC bot written in C!

about

minverabot is a simple multi-threaded bot written in C.

It is the continuation of an old effort to write an IRC bot.

features

modular
reload modules without restarting the bot
commands run in threads (all bot interface functions are threadsafe)
- Errors in a command don't kill the entire bot
SSL support

configuration

The bot reads all config options from environment variables.

BOT_NICK - Nick that the bot uses
BOT_USER - The ident for the bot
BOT_NAME - The realname of the bot
BOT_LOG_VERBOSITY - The verbosity of the bot on stdout (default to 1, 2 = raw send/receive, 1 = messages only, 0 = nothing)
BOT_NETWORK_HOST - The host irc server
BOT_NETWORK_PORT - The port of the irc server
BOT_NETWORK_SSL - Whether or not to use SSL (default to '0', set to '1' to enable SSL)
BOT_NETWORK_PASSWORD - A password for the server, if applicable (use 'nickserv username:nickserv pass' for SASL)
BOT_PREFIX - The prefix to use (if omitted, defaults to ',')
BOT_MODULES_DIR - The directory where modules are (if omitted, defaults to modules/)
BOT_OWNER_HOST - The host of the owner (if omitted, there is no owner)

how to reload modules

When a file in the modules directory is modified, it is automatically re-loaded.

developing modules