Need help finding TCL scripts for various things..
reddit / irc

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neocharles · 2013-04-23 00:05

I have interest from several individuals to make a bot for a few
different things, and I'm hoping to find some assistance in finding
some tcl scripts for an eggdrop to put into a room.

We're looking to have a few different triggers that could randomly
post a link from different subreddits (which I imagine the easiest way
to do this would be to parse an rss file and randomly choose a link
from there? - that way I can use the same script and change the URL
for the feed per command/subreddit).

I'm also looking for a GOOD trivia bot.  There's so many crappy ones
out there.  Any suggestions there?

(also, if there's a better suited subreddit to ask this, please direct
me in that direction!)

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Weyland · 2013-04-23 08:19

I suggest you take a look at http://www.egghelp.org/tcl.htm

It's an archive with a different bunch of plugins written in TCL that
allow you to extend the functionality of your bot.

If you want to write a !randomreddit trigger, I suggest you use the
RSS feed like you said. Load it up in an array and select a random
entry. Not that difficult in TCL since it's a pretty easy language to
pick up.

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m1ss1ontomars2k4 · 2013-04-23 10:33

What defines a "good" trivia bot?

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neocharles · 2013-04-23 16:42

One that doesn't have 'pop culture' questions from the late 90s? haha

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neocharles · 2013-04-23 16:44

I may need to venture into learning.  I've seen some amazing scripts
and bots on freenode in many rooms...


As far as the subreddits go, I'd like to do a !5050 one (for
/r/FiftyFifty), for the lulz, a !space for ..well, you can gather
there, probably a !gw or something... who knows.  At that point I can
just make a trigger for any subreddit and process the request
similarly I imagine.

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Weyland · 2013-04-23 16:49

Perhaps you should give this one a try: http://moxquizz.de/docs.html

It seems pretty complete.

Here is the readme: http://moxquizz.de/README

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m1ss1ontomars2k4 · 2013-04-23 20:20

How about one that has pop culture questions from the early 90s?

Seriously, though, the questions are not associated with the bot. Most
bots accept a simple format of:

    Question question question?*Answer 1*Answer 2*Answer 3

It's up to you to find those question files.

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neocharles · 2013-04-24 16:18

I think I've gotten a good trivia bot going (from
http://www.mytclscripts.com/).

Still looking for something to query subreddits though...