Need help with a bot
reddit / irc

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[deleted] · 2014-09-10 16:51

Is there a bot I can configure to respond with certain messages?

For example:

Respond "Hi!" everytime someone says "Hi!", or respond "Good!"
everytime someone says "How are you?". Just a simple chatbot.



*Edit: Is there also a way for a bot to automatically say something
every 5 minutes? Like an announcement to all channel users.*

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Pteraspidomorphi · 2014-09-10 20:29

Are you willing to script a bit or you want a ready made solution?

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[deleted] · 2014-09-10 21:23

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Pteraspidomorphi · 2014-09-10 22:01

Then I'm afraid I don't know. The thing is, what you want is so basic,
any static solution is almost redundant. You can script it in eggdrop
in less than 10 lines (more lines if you add more responses).

Hopefully someone else can help you.

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[deleted] · 2014-09-10 22:21

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Pteraspidomorphi · 2014-09-10 22:37

Well, for eggdrop check out this example:

http://www.niemueller.de/software/eggdrop/eliza/

If you open the .tcl you'll see it's very small. All this does is
forward chat to eliza and reply with the response.

Eggdrop extensions work by registering event handlers with 'bind'. The
'putserv' command sends a message back to the server (PRIVMSG is the
IRC message type for normal messages) Here's the description for
'pubm' events:

    (6)  PUBM (stackable)
         bind pubm <flags> <mask> <proc>
         procname <nick> <user@host> <handle> <channel> <text>

         Description: just like MSGM, except it's triggered by things
said
           on a channel instead of things /msg'd to the bot. The mask
is
           matched against the channel name followed by the text and
can
           contain wildcards. Also, if a line triggers a PUB bind, it
will not
           trigger a PUBM bind.

So you want something like this:

    bind pubm - "#mychannel *" respond

    proc respond {nick host handle channel text} {
        if {$text == "Hi"} {
            putserv "PRIVMSG $channel :Hello $nick, how are you?"
        }
        ...etc...
    }

You load the script at the end of eggdrop.conf .

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Pteraspidomorphi · 2014-09-10 22:47

To say something every 5 minutes try adding this to your script:

    proc annoying {} {
        putserv "PRIVMSG #mychannel :Are we there yet?"
    }

    utimer 300 annoying