opping and kicking on freenode.net

[fbstj]

All I'm trying to do is get my bot to kick a nick from a channel

To do that I need +o, which according to the docs I should bot.send('MODE', channel, '+o', bot.nick)

When I do that it throws:

./node_modules/irc/lib/irc.js:548
                    throw err;
                          ^
Error: Uncaught, unspecified 'error' event.
    at Client.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:70:15)
    at Client.<anonymous> (./node_modules/irc/lib/irc.js:432:26)
    at Client.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:93:17)
    at Client.connect (./node_modules/irc/lib/irc.js:545:22)
    at Array.forEach (native)
    at Socket.Client.connect (./node_modules/irc/lib/irc.js:542:15)
    at Socket.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:93:17)
    at TCP.onread (net.js:391:31)

and I have no idea how to kick.

messaging chanserv for ops works, but I cant find an equivalent way to kick.

Thanks. I am an IRC-bot n00b

[quentinxs]

The exception thrown is not from the mode command, but from the error received from the IRC server (see issue #107). Other than that your client is behaving as expected. Having the bot send /mode #somechannel +o nodebot is equivalent to having the bot try to give itself privileges it doesn't already have. Having another user/service give operator privileges to your bot is the correct method.

As for kicking, the format used is /kick <channel> <nick> [<comment>]

[fbstj]

Would that be bot.send('KICK', channel, nick, 'no comment') ? as I got the same error response when doing that.

Thanks for the clarification, it makes sense that I'd need to ask chanserv for it now.

[quentinxs]

Go into the node-irc code, and change irc.js line 432 from:
self.emit('error', message);
to:
self.emit('ircError', message);

Also, set showErrors to true and run it again. If you still have trouble, here are a list of possible error messages returned from KICK:

ERR_NEEDMOREPARAMS   -- make sure you have at least 2 parameters (channel and nick)
                        comment is optional and doesn't need to be included
ERR_NOSUCHCHANNEL    -- indicates channel name is invalid
ERR_NOSUCHNICK       -- the user you are kicking is not online
ERR_CHANOPRIVSNEEDED -- you need to have operator privileges before kicking
ERR_USERNOTINCHANNEL -- user needs to be on the channel you want to kick them from
ERR_NOTONCHANNEL     -- you also need to be on the channel you're kicking from

[martynsmith]

Yeah, as @qsheets points out, you need to be an operator on a channel before you can kick someone, and you can't make yourself an operator (someone has to grant you that).

This seems like most likely not a bug, I'm going to close it. Feel free to re-open it if you continue to have issues.