Nairobilug IRC bot

Nairobilug IRC bot in haskell taking advantage of discrete events (some will call it FRP) in haskell.

Usage

• seen @seen <nick>
• reputation
  • Check reputation @rep <nick>
  • Add reputation +1 <nick>
  • Subtract reputation -1 <nick>
• last fm Setting a new username for your nick replaces the older one.
  • @np set <username> to associate a last.fm username with your nick.
  • @np <last.fm username> If you don't want to set your last fm username.
  • @np If your IRC nick is your last.fm username or if you have set your last.fm username.
• factoid @factoid <name> <message>
• define @define <word/phrase>
• echo @echo <sentence you want to echo>
• ping @ping
• gif @gif <search term>
• wolfram alpha @wa <search query>
• URLs Automatically fetches page titles from URLs.
• Help @help — there are too many commands to paste the help in a channel so we give the user a URL to the wiki: https://github.com/nairobilug/nairobi-bot/wiki#usage

Maybe later if need be

• google/duckduckgo @search <search query>
• wikipedia @wiki <search query>

Reasons

• Main reason is because I can ;D.
• I want to play with the auto library and discrete events in haskell.
• I want to write a bot without going through a bot building framework.
• Much thanks to Justin Lee for creating the auto library.

Tests

I haven't yet written tests for it but they are coming.

Main deps

• simpleIrc
• auto

Deploying

Build and run the nairobi-bot executable like any other binary. Preferably using stack:

• stack build to compile but not add it to path
• stack install to add nairbibot-exe to path
• ./.stack-work/install/x86_64-linux/lts-3.15/7.10.2/bin/nairobi-bot-exe

In production use the following answer from stackoverflow to run your executable.

• nohup .stack-work/install/x86_64-linux/lts-3.15/7.10.2/bin/nairobi-bot-exe > /dev/null 2>&1 &

1. nohup means: Do not terminate this process even when the stty is cut off.

2. /dev/null means: stdout goes to /dev/null (which is a dummy device that does not record any output).

3. 2>&1 means: stderr also goes to the stdout (which is already redirected to /dev/null). You may replace &1 with a file path to keep a log of errors, e.g.: 2>/tmp/myLog
4. & at the end means: run this command as a background task.

License

GPL-3.0 See LICENSE file for complete license.

Other/RTFM

See the Wiki