slack-irc-bot

slack-irc-bot is a Slack to IRC bot written in JavaScript for Node.

The application passes messages between a Slack channel and an IRC channel in both directions.

Installation

Install from npm:

npm install slack-irc-bot

You can also clone this repository with git:

git clone https://github.com/kurkku/slack-irc-bot.git

and install dependencies using npm:

cd slack-irc-bot
npm install

slack-irc-bot can be used as a module, too:

var Bot = require('slack-irc-bot');
var config = require('./your_config.json');
Bot(config);

Note: node-irc depends on a character-set detection library icu. Your host must have libiconv and libicu installed in order to use this functionality -- otherwise you'll recieve errors when building these dependencies. However, node-irc will install and work fine -- without character-set functionality -- even though icu won't install correctly.

Configuration

You must have a Slack bot token to be able to use Slack Real Time Messaging API. Create one at https://my.slack.com/services/new/bot for your team.

Parameters

The bot is configured by editing config/config.json file. The configuration file must be passed to the application upon startup.

Required parameters

• slack.token: Your Slack bot token
• slack.channel: Channel name that is replayed in IRC and where IRC messages are written to
• irc.server: IRC server domain name
• irc.nick: Nickname of the IRC bot
• irc.userName: Username of the bot
• irc.channel.name: Name of the IRC channel
• irc.channel.protected: Is the channel password-protected?
• irc.channel.password: Password of the channel

Optional parameters

• slack.autoReconnect: Should client reconnect upon disconnect
• slack.autoMark: Should read messages be marked as read
• irc.port: IRC server port. If undefined, 6667 is used.
• irc.realName: Real name of the bot
• irc.localAddress: Local address of your host (optional)
• irc.debug: If enabled debug messages are written to console.
• irc.encoding: Encoding which IRC messages are converted to. Slack expects UTF-8.

Running

Start the bot with node app.js -c your_config.json

If the bot was installed globally using npm install --global slack-irc-bot you can start it with slack-irc-bot as well.

Running tests

Run tests with npm run test and npm run coverage

Docker

A Docker container of slack-irc-bot is available here.