Irssi Remote Client (IRC)

Script and clients for remotely operating Irssi.

The script is a HTTP server running inside Irssi and listens for commands. Most of the internal complexity of Irssi is hidden by the script, and the functionality is exposed via a simplified interface.

The clients can be anything with an internet connection and talks HTTP. Currently there is only an JavaScript HTML5 application that exposes a chat interface.

Installing

1. Install script and dependencies (for more information check the script readme):

• cpan Try::Tiny JSON::RPC::Common Digest::SHA
• curl -o ~/.irssi/scripts/remote-client.pl https://raw.github.com/aeirola/irssi-remote-client/master/irssi/remote-client.pl

2. Load script (in Irssi):

• /script load remote-client
• /set remote_client_password $YOUR_PASSWORD
• /set remote_client_port $YOUR_PORT

Known issues

• Irssi script doesn't have much error handling, might crash randomly
• Limited functionality
• Non-ASCII characters don't render in client
• Long lines and topics break layout flow

Future improvements

• JSON-RPC support on WebSocket
• More command functionality
• Topics
• Channels
• Queries
• Hilights
• ...
• Reconnection, pings, fault tolerance
• Code cleanup

Similar failed projects

• http://wouter.coekaerts.be/webssi/ : But they used some horrible GWT on the client side
• http://max.kellermann.name/projects/web-irssi/ : But they used a separate CGI script and irssi Perl script
• https://github.com/cho45/Irssw