mynameis

Walking talking Erlang IRC bot.

Features

• Speaks when addressed
• Ops and greets people as they join
• Announces website titles from URI's
• Evaluates erlang expressions. ** Warning, inherently unsafe **

Build

$ rebar3 compile

API

mynameis:connect(Name, Server, Port, Channels, Options) -> BotInstance()

Starts a child bot instance
Name = string()
Server = string()
Port = number()
Channels = [Channel, ...] 
Channel = string()
Options = [option(), ...]
option() = logging | autoop | ssl | pandora | {eval, Admin}
Admin = string()
BotInstance = pid()

Starts a bot instance with nickname Name on Server that will join Channels with Options
Registers the instance by server name.

Integrate the bot in another supervision tree by starting a bot directly using
mynameis_bot:start_link/5 with the same arguments

Demo

% rebar3 shell
===> Verifying dependencies...
===> Compiling mynameis
Erlang R16B03-1 (erts-5.10.4) [source] [64-bit] [smp:4:4] [async-threads:0] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false]

Eshell V5.10.4  (abort with ^G)
1> application:start(mynameis).
ok
2> mynameis:connect("mynameis", "irc.freenode.net", 6667, ["#erlounge"], [{eval, "dawik"}, pandora, logging, autoop]). 
{ok,<0.112.0>}
3> global:registered_names().
["irc.freenode.net"]
4> q().
ok

Meanwhile, on freenode..

mynameis [~mynameis@h-148-208.a328.priv.bahnhof.se] has joined #erlounge
< dawik> > math:pi().
< mynameis> 3.141592653589793
< dawik> http://www.erlang.org
< mynameis> Erlang Programming Language 0.038s
< dawik> mynameis: bye
< mynameis> dawik: Bye.
mynameis [~mynameis@h-148-208.a328.priv.bahnhof.se] has quit [Remote host closed the connection]