PorygonZ

The simple bot that sort of works. Initially, it was just an IRC bot, but in later releases it got XMPP support. It contains an IRC server support, but can be used without IRC (as REPL). Also, it supports XMPP servers, so you can easily make a bot for Internet Messaging. It's very configurable by using plugins, and you can even decide whatever command names are used by the plugin.

Plugins available

• randomness
  • coin - throws a coin, while using random.org
• help
  • help - allows you to read list of commands, and help for the command. You can overwrite the help, by changing the help property of the object.
• math
  • math - uses matheval to solve mathematical problem. Takes three configuration arguments, hex, binary, and octal. Those decide whatever the calculator shows the results in other bases.
• version
  • version - shows pointless version information. Yep.
• tell
  • tell - informs other users when they are away.
  • tellCheck - event parser to actually inform users. Needed if you want tell that actually does work.
• pug
  • pug - returns a cute puppy. Based on hubot's implementation.

Installation

If you want to use the stable version, use standard npm install command.

npm install PorygonZ

If you want to use development version, just clone the repository using npm. Following command should be able to install PorygonZ.

npm install git://github.com/GlitchMr/PorygonZ.git

You will need to write some code to load plugins of IRC bot, and its servers. The source code already contains one, available in the porygonz.litcoffee.sample file. You are encouraged to copy it to some other file ending with .litcoffee.

The config file can be put almost anywhere - all it does it running actual code that was installed by npm install command. It's sort of bootstrap, I would say.

Because the configuration file is written in CoffeeScript, you should be aware that it cares about indentation. It's also sort of complex, but it also gives lots of flexibility. If you feel like, you can even monkey punch things while using CoffeeScript syntax. You generally shouldn't have to, but sometimes it's needed. Generally, the configuration file has two things you would have to change.

Plugins

The first would be list of plugins, and the second would be the list of containers. By default, PorygonZ contains list of plugins containing one plugin.

{version} = require 'PorygonZ/plugins/version'

plugins =
  version: version()

This imports the plugin file PorygonZ/plugins/version, and imports the function from it called version. Every plugin is a function you should call to get the function. The reason why you have to call it, is that the plugin can be configured. version doesn't have any sort of configuration, but some plugins, like math can have it.

The plugins array contains the list of commands and the plugins mapped to it. If you would like that version be called like ver, you could add ver: version().

Servers

The second would be list of servers. By default, this bot joins #botters-test on Freenode, and enables REPL. Adding the new servers would be simply adding new entries that follow the pattern. The list of the channels is array, separated by commas.

The prefix is regular expression. It has to be at beginning of the message, otherwise bot won't listen. It uses the regular expressions syntax. To learn more about them, check out regular-expressions.info. It contains a short tutorial for regular expressions.

If you still cannot survive regular expressions, you can put string here. It's less flexible, but it works. Mostly. Please note that prefixes are only needed for conferences/channels, but they are removed automatically if you will use them anyway in private messages.

Running

You need to have CoffeeScript installed globally. After doing that, you can do just.

coffee porygonz.litcoffee