Nodebot - a node.js IRC bot

Prerequisites

• node.js
• npm
• Run npm install to install the dependencies listed in package.json

Configuration

Copy config.js.sample to config.js and then look in the file for all configuration options. You can disable scripts by renaming them to a different extension or deleting/moving them out of the scripts folder.

Running

Just run node main.js. It will load the scripts and connect to the IRC server, at which time the scripts should react to messages on the server (e.g. autojoin.js will autojoin any channels, nickserv.js will identify with NickServ, pong.js will send a PONG reply to every PING).

It also starts a REPL loop, so that you can run commands manually. So for example, you could nodebot.join('#room') to cause the bot to join a room, nodebot.privmsg('#room', 'hi') to make the bot talk in the room, or nodebot.loadScripts() to reload the scripts. Refer to main.js for the available functions in the global.nodebot object, or run require('util').inspect(nodebot).

Scripts

Scripts are still under development, and the framework is such that one is not able to programmatically create a list of the available commands. Thus, the help.js script is rather useless and certainly not what one might expect. So please refer to the top and contents of each script to find out what it does. Each script has a comment at the top clearly explaining what the script does and each command it makes available.

To trigger a script action, you can say "{botname}, {action}" or "{prefix}{action}" where prefix is set in the config file. For example, "nodebot, help" or "~help". Some scripts don't react this way; the "say" script, for example, doesn't require a prefix, so you can simply write "say something" and the bot will reply "something".

For developing your own scripts, use the existing scripts as examples to make your own.

License

(c) 2012 Richard Carter

This project is licensed under the MIT license; see LICENSE.txt for details.