Simple bot
reddit / irc

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rkos · 2014-06-14 12:03

Hello, I'm trying to make a simple IRC bot. I've been playing around
with Pircbot a bit, but I can't figure it out, do you guys have any
suggestions?

The features I'm trying to implement:
-take a line from a user that the bot then messages to the channel
every hour or so
-let people join in with a command so that the bot remembers that they
are included
-let the joined people give a command that implies they're ready and
when all joined users are ready it initiates a countdown messaging the
channel "5" "4" "3" "2" "1" "Go" in separate lines.
-have the ability to set a limit on how many people need to be joined
before it allows a countdown to happen

So is Pircbot a good solution for this or would you suggest something
else? Any advice is appreciated!

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wub_wub · 2014-06-14 22:09

Well, your best shot is paying someone to do this if you can't figure
it out yourself, but if you have free time you can easily make this.

The message every hour will probably work by instantiating a new
thread that will run in background and post message every hour in
channel.

The rest of the code is pretty simple, just put usernames that want to
join in a list and check its length before running countdown, when
user quits/parts if he's in a list of joined users remove him.

Limit is also just a matter of storing value in a variable and/or a
file and then referencing it and checking number of users to the value
before starting countdown.

Pretty much any IRC framework in any language will do, so pircbot is a
good solution for this - I used it once to make an IRC bot and it was
pretty easy to work with.