What exactly is botifex? Botifex is a communication bot currently working only with IRC. The main aspect of the development was to provide a communication bot without any language dependencies. This is a very complex task, so I hardcoded the seperation of words and sentences. But that is the only restriction of language independency. Botifex has no purpose than having fun with the sometimes funny stuff it writes. It learns everything by itself and combines the known words to new sentences. Botifex tries to say something appropriate to the current context. But i couldn't observe that behaviour in tests, perhaps the knowledge was to small or the weight for the context relations is too small. The bot is also able to receive commands and so on, see "COMMANDS". COMMANDS Commands can be placed through the normal IRC or through the standard input. To use commands with a higher rightlevel you have to authenticate yourself. All commands over the standard input are treated like authenticated ones. The rights needed to use a command can be changed via the perm command. Commands that depend on a irc-server, are using the same server the IRC command is send from, or the last server the bot connected to otherwise. A list of all commands: !leave <CHANNEL> The bot leaves the specified channel. !join <CHANNEL> The bot joins the specified channel. !connect <SERVER>:<PORT> Connect to the server. !disconnect Disconnects from the server. !save <FILE> Saves the knowledge to the specified file. !load <FILE> Loads the knowledge from a file, multiple loads are possible. !reset Resets the knowledge !learn <ENABLE> This enables (1) or disables (0) the learning !talky <LEVEL> How chatty should the bot be (between 0 and 100) !auth <PASSWORD> Authenticate yourself !deauth Logout !passwd <NEWPASSWORD> Set the password for the bot !perm <CMD> <ACCESSLVL> Sets the access level of the command CMD !nick <NICK> Set the nick of the bot !autosave <FILE> Periodically save the knowledge to the file. To use the bot some commands have to be used. For example !nick and !connect. HOW TO USE First write all your normal commands into a file. Then you can cat the file and pipe it to the binary: cat <STANDARD_COMMANDS> | ./botifex Of course you can also type your commands on the console. REQUIREMENTS glib-2.28 or higher. Should work on all posix conform operating systems. LICENSE botifex is a communication bot for irc networks learning from conversations Copyright (C) 2011 Markus Pargmann <mpargman_AT_allfex_DOT_org> 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/>.