weekybot

IRC bot that periodically scrapes mediawiki atom feeds for changes. Designed for http://unvanquished.net/wiki and used on the freenode channel #unvanquished-dev

Overview

frontend.sh

• sets up IRC connection
• runs middleend piped to irc
• rudimentary responses

middleend.py

• harvests atom feed
• generates text
• run with the opt 'once' to avoid it looping

backend (IRC client) is ii

• http://tools.suckless.org/ii/

How-to

Deps:

• any *nix-like platform
• Python feedparser http://pythonhosted.org/feedparser/
• ii http://tools.suckless.org/ii/

Configurate by editing the two source files. Useful variables are near the top.

Ensure you don't run the script without first changing the server, channel and nick details! If you do make this leviathic mistake: make sure you personally join #unvanquished-dev, apologise to Veyrdite, join in the conversation and try out the game. Fail this at your own risk: the gods of IRC will make all your PONGS tremble with latency.

Other notes

Python seems to report pipe breakages occasionally. I don't know what's causing this (ii recreating its fifos?) but it seems to be harmless. The bot still keeps working as per normal.

To-do

• Add regexps for remaining undiscovered mediawiki contributer actions