ircbot

Small bloated IRC bot 🤖

Tested with irc.snoonet.org

Features

• Automatic reconnect on connection loss
• Live injection of new responses at runtime
• Persistent user database
• Variable command prefix
• Easy new command addition
  • As simple as creating a new subclass in command.py
• Many built-in commands
• Dynamic overly-long message splitting (Thanks primitve IRC protocol)

Usage

Start it once on your server and use the commands within your IRC client.

Server

./start.py

Configure settings (nick, server, channel, command prefix, etc.) in .env.
(This file isn't read but the environment variables must be set. Source them via e.g. export $(cat .env | xargs).)

Client

\help
\cmds
\about
\uptime
\date
\time
\sentiment <text>|<user>
\lastmessage <user>
\words <user>
\wordcloud <user>
...

Only the last 1000 messages of users are stored. This parameter can be changed.

Container

# Prepare
docker pull ghcr.io/lolei/ircbot:<tag>
# or
docker build -f Containerfile . -t ghcr.io/lolei/ircbot:<tag>

# Run
docker run --env-file .env.local -v $(pwd)/storage:/app/storage ghcr.io/lolei/ircbot:<tag>

Deployment

The bot can either be run from the git repo itself, as a container with e.g. docker or docker-compose, or within Kubernetes.
It has been deployed for a long time (> 1 year) on a Raspberry Pi (therefore it works on ARM, which is made sure by some version requirements), and it is currently deployed on Kubernetes. (See k8s/)

Example User Word Cloud