Looking to create a trollbox webchat widget via freenode for our
website
reddit / irc

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bitmexdegen · 2019-10-24 23:46

[Bitmex.com](https://Bitmex.com) has an incredible example of exactly
what we want to do to our own website.


Their chat is mirrored from https://webchat.freenode.net/#bitmex


Anyone here have any advice to get us pointed in the right direction?


We already have the webchat set up, it's the mirroring and server
architecture that we are missing.


TIA

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bitmexdegen · 2019-11-01 01:46

Thanks for the info everyone 🤣

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ProgVal · 2019-11-01 08:45

The simplest way would be an iframe containing the webchat.
But that wouldn't be very pretty or well-integrated.

What bitmex does is that they have an IRC bot (ie. software connected
to IRC as a client) that reads IRC messages to push them to their
website, and reads messages from the website and publishes them to
IRC.

How to set this up highly depends on your existing architecture,
especially the software or framework your website uses.