IRC Silver quote bot scripted in MSL.
reddit / irc

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McGoodotnet · 2023-11-04 00:10

Good day fellow nerds. I was hoping someone could script, or forward
me the contact details of someone that can script, a snippet to fetch
a live silver price both buy and sell for the price of an ounce of
silver from my local shop in Canadian dollars of course :P .

[https://www.bordergold.com/product/1-oz-silver-
round/?currency=CAD](https://www.bordergold.com/product/1-oz-silver-
round/?currency=CAD)

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I imagine some json fetch kinda thing or whatever. I never write the
code I usually just steal it / touch it up.

Something like this:

!buy

Current buy rate is:  $36.87 CAD

!sell

Current sell rate is: $31.06 CAD

!rates

Buy: $36.87 CAD

Sell: $31.06 CAD

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Thanks!

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mindlesstux · 2023-11-04 00:26

What language?  Sounds like a fun little project to me.

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McGoodotnet · 2023-11-04 00:28

MSL Mirc scripting language

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIRC\_scripting\_language](https://en.w
ikipedia.org/wiki/MIRC_scripting_language)

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all my bots are run on this since I am not 1337 lol

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mindlesstux · 2023-11-04 00:30

Ah well I'm out as I have not used mIRC on years.  If it was Python or
NodeJS I would give it a go

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McGoodotnet · 2023-11-04 00:33

I am assuming that requires some type of eggdrop type thing?

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Thanks for reaching out regardless.

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[deleted] · 2023-11-04 04:16

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netzack21 · 2023-11-04 04:18

I'm not great at this, and this is not exactly what you wanted, but
might be a good jumping off point.   It looks for all of your
triggers, but only returns the price on MarketWatch.   It's a website
that is easier for me to read.

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on 1:text:\*:#:{
  if ( $1 == !buy ) || ( $1 == !sell ) || ( $1 == !rates ) {
set %silver.nick $nick
set %silver.chan $chan
set %silver.action $remove($1,!)
if ( $sock(silver).status != $null ) { sockclose silver }
msg %silver.chan ==== Checking the price of silver on MarketWatch.com,
just a sec ====
sockopen -e silver www.marketwatch.com 443
  }
}

on 1:sockopen:silver:{
  sockwrite -n silver GET /investing/future/si00/download-data
HTTP/1.1
  sockwrite -n silver HOST: www.marketwatch.com
  sockwrite -n silver
}

on 1:sockread:silver:{
  if ( $sockerr > 0 ) { return }
  :nextread
  sockread %silver.data
  if ( $sockbr == 0 ) { return }
  if ( %silver.data == $null) { set %silver.data - }
  silver.ReadData %silver.data
  if ( $sock(silver).status != $null ) { goto nextread }
}

alias silver.ReadData {
  if ( $1-2 == )
msg %silver.chan ==== Hey there %silver.nick ... Price of Silver:
%silver.price ====
sockclose silver
  }
}

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ScratchinCommander · 2023-11-04 20:43

You can do this with a bot running eggdrop, and your addon would
probably be coded using TCL. Or, you could try doing it with MSL and
leave the mIRC client running.

I'd probably go the eggdrop route, lots of examples of bot scripts out
there

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McGoodotnet · 2023-11-04 21:53

Super cool and much appreciated!

The spot price and what I can actually buy / sell for locally are
different however.

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This is indeed a great starting point thank you kindly for your
efforts on this!

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Output:

 !buy
 ==== Checking the price of silver on MarketWatch.com, just a sec ====
 ==== Hey there mcgoo ... Price of Silver: $23.335 ====
 !sell
 ==== Checking the price of silver on MarketWatch.com, just a sec ====
 ==== Hey there mcgoo ... Price of Silver: $23.335 ====
 !rates
 ==== Checking the price of silver on MarketWatch.com, just a sec ====
 ==== Hey there mcgoo ... Price of Silver: $23.335 ====

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McGoodotnet · 2023-11-04 22:10

Honestly mirc is one of the few reasons I still run windows at all in
my house.

My xdcc fetch script + various other bots run off snippets in msl.

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The script kiddie life aint for everyone lol

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As for the eggdrop approach I found it harder to patch together
personally.

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Suvorov_Yuri · 2023-11-26 01:48

mIRC scripting language is great for running bots, but I prefer Python
or NodeJS for this kind of project. If anyone's got a solution in
those languages, I'd be interested in giving it a go.