You need a bot.toml
file that follows the format as specified by the irc
crate. Compile with the usual rustup (to install
Rust and friends) and cargo (to actually do the building) commands. Generally
aiming for whatever is the latest version of Rust.
Things I was required to install with apt
on a fresh Lubuntu installation:
build-essential
pkg-config
for openssl-sys cratelibssl-dev
for openssl-sys crate
On Arch: pacman -S openssl gcc pkgconf
though the last two would already be
installed if you installed the base-devel
group.
Arch was already ahead of Debian in openssl versions. Notably, openssl 3 removed support for the encryption I had used on debian to have an SASL key. Got an error:
[2022-11-20T12:39:12Z INFO irc::client::conn] Connecting via TLS to irc.libera.chat.
Error: Tls(Normal(ErrorStack([Error { code: 50856204, library: "digital envelope routines", function: "inner_evp_generic_fetch", reason: "unsupported", file: "crypto/evp/evp_fetch.c", line: 373, data: "Global default library context, Algorithm (RC2-40-CBC : 0), Properties ()" }])))
Resolved it by following https://stackoverflow.com/a/72600724/411495.
openssl pkcs12 -in cert/keyStore.p12 -nodes -legacy >temp
openssl pkcs12 -in ./temp -export -out cert/keyStore.openssl3.p12
Follow some best practices to keep the code clean:
- Run
cargo fmt
on the code. Ensure it is installed by issuingrustup component add rustfmt-preview
(at the time of writing). - Run
cargo clippy
on the code. Ensure it is installed by issuingrustup component add clippy
(at the time of writing). - Run
cargo outdated
to check for outdated dependencies. See https://github.com/kbknapp/cargo-outdated. Currently install is viacargo install cargo-outdated
. - Run
cargo test
.
- Basic query parsing should probably be centralised, always the same idea.
plugins.toml
should let you decide which plugins to enable.- Need to filter out a bunch of lesser competitions that nobody cares about.
- Have an include and exclude list
- Option to exclude all and only allow explicit includes?
- Have the list be a configuration, not hardcoded
- Have an --all or similar option when you do want to look through everything
- Add weather via merrysky / its backend api
- Match random strava club links? Not sure I really want that, giving the leaderboard doesn't help anyone. Maybe just name / type / location / member count. Does not occur often enough to matter though.
- Consistent logging. Use the
log
(I think) crate everywhere instead ofprintln
. - FIFA and Elo ranking for a country (see
!elo
club command) - Fantasy Premier League ranking.
- Does it make sense to maybe use a lexer or whatever to analyse user input vs adhoc regex?
- Better error messages for
!calc
. Help with conversions / unit names would be handy too. - Anti spam. See if the IRC library offers anything here. Maybe combine with more streamlined parsing of the input. But would every plugin then need to "register" its catches? Not sure how to best go about that.
- If anti spam works, then see about making the bot reply in private messages.
- Can this be easily turned into a bot for other platforms? Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp, idk, something else to make it useful for me.
- Recent IRC activity check for
!strava
command? Meaning if people don't talk in the channel, then don't show them in the ranking. Combine!seen
information with the strava-ircnick connections we have. - Also enable showing last week's strava ranking. Useful the x hours after the clock changes.
- Some games incorrectly show up as
@live
games in!game
. Status:Aband.
,AAW
,AHW
(awarded home/away win). Hard to test those last two, the first one might appear somewhat regularly. - Consider a
!strava me
(or!strava someperson
) option that shows the stats for a person and their ranking for each.