Need help with an IRC bot.
reddit / irc

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SgtRawrface · 2019-08-26 19:49

I was following a tutorial for an IRC bot in Python from this website:
https://gist.github.com/RobertSzkutak/1326452 and in the end while the
bot connects, it's not joining the channel it should, or sending the
message that's coded in when it starts up.

I've read that it's got to do with the PING/PONG requests after
sending the user information but I can't find any information on
modifying the code to make it handle the PING/PONG requests in between
sending the bots nickname or password.

Any help would be much appreciated. In the end I'm just trying to find
a way to take any requests or text information and pass it to an IRC
channel through a bot. Half as a coding exercise, half cuz I read an
article of a guy whose done it and I think it's kinda cool.

*Edit for words

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jhoneycutt · 2019-08-26 23:46

The problem is that it's sending JOIN and PRIVMSG commands before it
finishes registering. Try [this
version](https://pastebin.com/43E3Wsjs) which is a little less shit.
Note that it waits until receiving IRC numeric "001" to send the JOIN
and PRIVMSG commands. IRC numeric "001" is sent as a welcome message
when a client finishes joining. You can read more about the IRC
protocol in RFCs 1459 and 2812.

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SgtRawrface · 2019-08-27 03:13

Thank you, got it up and running first try. Looks like on top of the
RFCs I also need to read more up on parsing lol