prototypes/gamification/irc-bots.ipynb

IRC Bots¶

Making bots as a way to re(turn) to gamification mechanisms and find ways to subvert them.

Could the prototyping session of today be a moment of collective digestion and testing? \ A moment to bring back references from the last weeks and test ideas through making small prototypes?

Links to start in the middle of:

• https://pad.xpub.nl/p/18012022 - Pad of the session on "Defining play and games, Blurrying the lines between labour and play: gamification and playbour"
• https://pad.xpub.nl/p/2022_onesentencegameideas

How to make an IRC bot?¶

• example script: https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Building_an_IRC_bot_in_python
• IRC server for this notebooks: https://libera.chat/
• Python library: irc

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! pip3 install irc

hellobot¶

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import irc.bot

class HelloBot(irc.bot.SingleServerIRCBot):
    def __init__(self, channel, nickname, server, port):
        irc.bot.SingleServerIRCBot.__init__(self, [(server, port)], nickname, nickname)
        self.channel = channel

    def on_welcome(self, connection, event):
        connection.join(self.channel)

    def on_privmsg(self, connection, event):
        pass

    def on_pubmsg(self, connection, event):
        # event.target, event.source, event.arguments, event.type
        # print(event) # type: pubmsg, source: Guest92843793284!~Guest9284@2a10:3781:1734:1:fdd8:ab9a:d925:9106, target: #xpub, arguments: ['...'], tags: []
        messages = event.arguments
        for message in messages:
            if "hello" in message:
                connection.privmsg(self.channel, "HELLO!!!")

server = "irc.libera.chat"
port = 6667
channel = "#xpub"
nickname = "hellobot"

bot = HelloBot(channel, nickname, server, port)
bot.start()

echobot¶

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import irc.bot

class EchoBot(irc.bot.SingleServerIRCBot):
    def __init__(self, channel, nickname, server, port):
        irc.bot.SingleServerIRCBot.__init__(self, [(server, port)], nickname, nickname)
        self.channel = channel

    def on_welcome(self, connection, event):
        connection.join(self.channel)

    def on_privmsg(self, connection, event):
        pass

    def on_pubmsg(self, connection, event):
        # event.target, event.source, event.arguments, event.type
        # print(event) # type: pubmsg, source: Guest92843793284!~Guest9284@2a10:3781:1734:1:fdd8:ab9a:d925:9106, target: #xpub, arguments: ['...'], tags: []
        messages = event.arguments
        for message in messages:
            connection.privmsg(self.channel, message)

server = "irc.libera.chat"
port = 6667
channel = "#xpub"
nickname = "echobot"

bot = EchoBot(channel, nickname, server, port)
bot.start()

timerbot¶

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import irc.bot
import time 

class TimerBot(irc.bot.SingleServerIRCBot):
    def __init__(self, channel, nickname, server, port):
        irc.bot.SingleServerIRCBot.__init__(self, [(server, port)], nickname, nickname)
        self.channel = channel
        
        # This is where the last_timer is initiated
        self.last_timer = time.time()

    def on_welcome(self, connection, event):
        connection.join(self.channel)

    def on_privmsg(self, connection, event):
        pass

    def on_pubmsg(self, connection, event):
        # event.target, event.source, event.arguments, event.type
        # print(event) # type: pubmsg, source: Guest92843793284!~Guest9284@2a10:3781:1734:1:fdd8:ab9a:d925:9106, target: #xpub, arguments: ['...'], tags: []
        
        # Make a new timestamp 
        now = time.time()
        
        # Compare "now" with the last_timer
        timer = round((now - self.last_timer), 2)
        
        reply = f"{ timer } seconds"
        connection.privmsg(self.channel, reply)
        
        # Reset the last_timer
        self.last_timer = now

server = "irc.libera.chat"
port = 6667
channel = "#xpub"
nickname = "timerbot"

bot = TimerBot(channel, nickname, server, port)
bot.start()

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