sopel-sockmsg

Proof that it is possible to have a Sopel bot say text sent from outside IRC.

Requirements

The script to send a message to the socket assumes the default IP and port, and assumes /bin/bash is available. It should work on any *nix system, but it should be possible to do something similar on Windows (pull requests welcome with e.g. a BAT file).

Usage

• Put sockmsg.py in your Sopel bot's modules directory (and add sockmsg to core.enable if needed)
• Set TARGET variable as desired, e.g. #mybot or nick,#channel
• Put sendsockmsg.sh anywhere it's convenient, e.g. the current directory (./)
• (re)start Sopel
• Call e.g. ./sendsockmsg.sh test message through socket

Alternatively, create a long-lived connection to the listening socket and send a line whenever you want the module to post a message (terminated by \n).