Purpose

To create an IRC bot that will publish Google Code changes to an IRC channel. Eventually we want to support queries and actions as well.

Additionally there is a log view web server included, log-view.py. You can see an example of this server at http://irclogs.velvetcache.org

Roadmap

• Basic feed based IRC bot - DONE
• Multiple project support with YAML & Multiprocessing - DONE
• Daemon monitoring, auditing & dynamic loading. - STARTED
• IRC logging - DONE
• Query interaction. - STARTED

Requirements

• Python >= 2.4
• Twisted
• Feedparser
• PyYAML
• GData >= 2.0.4
• Intestinal Fortitude (if you are going to read the code)

If you are going to use the log viewer you'll also need:

• Python >= 2.4
• web.py

Usage

• Create a bot yaml file in ./bots/
• Run googlecode-irc-bot.py
• Enjoy your bot
• To view IRC logs, run log-view.py and visit http://localhost:8080/

Configuration

project:
  name: 'example' // Name of your bot, used internally
  bot:
    name: 'example-gc-bot'       // The IRC handle of your bot
    channel: '#example'          // The IRC channel to join
    server: 'chat.freenode.net'  // The IRC server
    port: 6667                   // The IRC port
  feeds:
    issues: 600      // Refresh issues feed interval (in seconds)
    downloads: 600   // Refresh downloads feed interval (in seconds)
    wiki: 600        // Refresh wiki changes feed interval (in seconds)
  issues:
    username: example@gmail.com  // Google login for access to issues API
    password: example
  logging: True   // Log all interactions on the channel to a file
  privignore:  // All users in this list will be ignored by the bot
  - ChanServ   // ChanServ can get into a loop if it asks your bot something
  - NickServ
  - jmhobbs    // Nobody listens to me anyway...
  vcs: svn   // svn, hg, git...

Debugging

Having problems? You can tail the log, or you can pass -debug to the script to add stdout logging of the Twisted framework.

$ python googlecode-irc-bot.py -debug

Credits

Inspiration and foundations from Quodlibot by Steven Robertson - http://strobe.cc/quodlibot/

ChanServ loop bug identified by daenney - https://github.com/daenney

VCS options and code feed reader by daenney - https://github.com/daenney

License

Copyright (c) 2010 John Hobbs

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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