Bashbot

Bashbot was originally an idea and bash snippet from Jonathan Hitchcock. I took it and bastardised it beyond imagination.

It’s a fully-featured, modular IRC bot.

The modules come in 2 types:

Commands are matched by filename. I.e. “bot: foo bar” will run the command foo if it exists.
Regex commands are matched by a regex in the file’s first line (commented). So a regex-command beginning with # ^(.*) is( also)? (.*)$ will be executed if you try and set a factoid with “bot: Spinach is a vegtable”

Included modules:

announce
builtin
chanops
factoid
google
insult
karma
logs
say
tell

Security

This bot is a security nightmare. I haven’t found any mistakes, but you’d be insane to run this in anything but the most strictly-controlled environment.

Performance

No optimisation included :-)

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Comments

Thu, 10/04/2008 - 6:00pm — mandy (not verified)

bashbot

how do you use and play with the bot? i downloaded it what after it? u need to open cod with it?

Sat, 12/04/2008 - 2:59pm — tumbleweed

playing with bashbot

Extract the tarball in your (or preferably a separate user’s) home directory:

bin/bashbot contains the configuration and is also the binary you run to make it work
- BOTNAME: The nick of your bot, something to address it by (it also answers to “bot” and “bashbot”)
- BOTOWNERS: The nicks of users who can perform administerative tasks
- SERVER: Address of IRC server
- PORT: Port on IRC server
- ONLOGIN: Generally a command to join a room
- IRCLOG: Where bashbot stores its log
- BOTDIR: Where bashbot plugins etc. are kept
- PIPE: Where bashbot keeps its internal communication fifo
.bashbot/ contains the modules, logs, etc.
- commands: These bash snippets are called by saying “bot: ” (generally symlinks into modules)
- factoids: Storage for factoids for the factoids module
- messages: Storage for memos
- modules: Where modules are kept
- regexes: These bash snippets are called when the in “bot: is matched by a regex in the first line of the snippet (generally symlinks into modules)

Pretty, eh?

Tue, 22/07/2008 - 1:31pm — H4ck (not verified)

I Dont understand. Where do

I Dont understand. Where do i tell what? What means Linkstuff? Plz tell me!

Wed, 23/07/2008 - 4:13pm — tumbleweed

re: I Dont understand. Where do

It sounds like you aren’t familiar with symbolic links. If you aren’t comfortable with *nix and bash, this bot isn’t for you.

It’s not designed to be easy to use - it’s more a demonstration that you can use the wrong language for the job and still survive :-)

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