zhenya_bot

Zhenya_bot is an irc bot written in Haskell. While originally meant for use on a private server, as of v1.0 zhenya_bot should be ready for general purpose use with compatibility tested ircds.

Compatibility

As of v1.0 zhenya_bot is known to be compatible with the following IRC daemons:

• IRCD-Hybrid v7.2.2
• ircd-seven v1.1.3
• ggircd v1.0

While zhenya_bot may be compatible with other ircds, only those listed above have been shown to work as intended with all functionality as of v1.0.

Installation

You'll need ghc (the Glasgow Haskell Compiler) and cabal (the Haskell package manager).

You can install them by following the links below:

• ghc
• cabal

Or by installing the haskell-platform which includes both.

To run the bot you'll need to git clone https://github.com/numberten/zhenya_bot.git and execute the run script mentioned below. The first time you run zhenya_bot, it may take cabal several minutes to download and compile dependencies.

Running

The ./run.sh script handles launching, restarting, and updating the bot. The following command line flags are accepted:

• -s --server=HostName The IRC server to connect to
• -p --port=PortNumber The port on which the IRC server is running
• -n --nick=Nick The nick that the bot should take
• -c --channel=Channel The channel that the bot should join
• -? --help Display help message
• -V --version Print version information

Note that the channel flag can be supplied multiple times to cause the bot to join multiple channels.

Commands

• !id <command>
  • zhenya_bot will privmsg <command> to channel
• !uptime
  • privmsgs time spent in channel
• !quit
  • terminates connection to irc server
• !restart
  • restarts the zhenya_bot
• !update
  • restarts the zhenya_bot and performs a git pull before reconnecting
• !seen <nick>
  • privmsgs time since <nick> last spoke
• !ascend
  • attempts to +o speaker, with echo
• !ding
  • attempts to +o speaker, without echo
• !roll <number>
  • privmsgs a random number between 1 and <number>
• !be <nick>
  • zhenya_bot will attempt to say a sentence in the manner of <nick>, using a bigram model trained off logs
• !files <string>
  • searches for <string> in a given file catalogue, reporting the top 5 results
• !alias [<nick>]
  • reports all nick clusters seen by the zhenya_bot
  • if optional <nick> argument is given, reports nick cluster containing <nick>
• !define <string>
  • responds with the urbandictionary "definition" of <string>
• !grep [-c int] [-n nick] [-m matches] <regex>
  • searches for matches in channel history that match <regex>
  • '-c' flag indicates the number of lines above and below the match to print
  • '-n' flag filters lines by a given nick
  • '-m' flag indicates the number of matches to return
• !list show [list]
  • privmsgs the list of lists
  • if passed a list name, privmsgs the contents of that list
• !list add [at index] list [element]
  • adds a list to the list of lists
  • if passed an element, adds that element to the given list
  • elements added to a specific list can be optionally added to a given index
• !list rm list [element|index]
  • removes the given list
  • if passed an element or index, removes that element (or element at that index) from the given list
• !list check list (element|index)
  • adds or removes a strike through of the element in the given list
  • alternatively excepts an element's index
• !list flush list
  • removes all striked through elements in the given list
• !queens <number>
  • solves the n-queens problem
  • pretty prints a solution for n <= 12