gophircbot

A simple IRC bot written from scratch*, in Go. Uses gophirc.

* Initially the bot was developed with full functionality, extracting the core into a framework was a todo.

Description

The bot is currently a work in progress.

Framework managed events

• See gophirc

Bot managed events

• Searches the messages (PRIVMSG) for links and sends back the title or content-type & content-length (if specified in the headers)

       <you> https://i.imgur.com/HkN2lB4.png
<gophircbot> [URL] content-type image/png, content-length 33.4 KB
       <you> https://github.com/vlad-s/gophircbot
<gophircbot> [URL] GitHub - vlad-s/gophircbot: gophircbot, an IRC bot written from scratch, in Go

• Shrugs with you

   <someone> climate change is a hoax
       <you> shrug
<gophircbot> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

• Responds to standard CTCP VERSION, TIME, PING, and custom RAW and QUIT - the custom CTCP events can only be invoked by a bot admin

To do

• Add Go documentation
• Add back user commands
  • Say, yell
  • Join, part, invite, kick, ban/unban
  • Weather
  • giphy API
• Extract the core functionality into a framework - see gophirc
• Add command line flags/params
  • For config
  • For API config
• Add methods for event callbacks
• Connect the bot to a database, store info there
  • Ignored users
• Load auto replies from an external source
• Many (?) more