python-irc-bots/README.md

A small selection of IRC bots

simplebot.py is a really minimal bot (meant as a proof of concept and starting point) written in standard library python 3. The source is from IRC Hacks, Paul Mutton, 2004.

ircpipebot and reversebot make use of the irc module, installable with:

pip3 install irc

Pipebot

Testing

python -u ircpipebot.py | python -u pipebot/echo_split.py

Closing the loop

mkfifo pipe.fifo
cat pipe.fifo | python -u ircpipebot.py > pipe.fifo


cat pipe.fifo | python -u ircpipebot.py | python -u pipebot/echo_split.py > pipe.fifo

or

cat pipe.fifo | \
python -u ircpipebot.py | \
python -u pipebot/echo_split.py \
> pipe.fifo