tehbot

A Python IRC Bot

Installation

• Install Python >= 3.7, incl. pip
• Install dependencies:
  • MySQL driver:
    • If your Linux Distro has a working MySQLdb module for Python 3 (Debian 10 (buster) e.g.): run sudo apt install python3-mysqldb
    • Else run sudo pip3 install --upgrade PyMySQL
  • Run sudo pip3 install --upgrade irc lxml tmdbsimple wolframalpha prettytable psutil pony requests
• Checkout the source to $TEHBOTDIR

Running

• cd $TEHBOTDIR
• python3 -m tehbot

Interacting with tehbot

Tehbot has a command line interface which accepts the following commands:

• reload -- reloads all plugins and applies all changes made to tehbot's connections
• quit -- quits tehbot (optional arguments are supplied as quit message)
• stats -- shows some statistics about connected networks' status and period command plugins
• config -- edit or show tehbot's settings

Configuration

Global Configuration

• config global set botname "mytehbot" -- set tehbot's name to mytehbot
• config global set ircname "mytehbot" -- set tehbot's irc name to mytehbot
• config global set username "mytehbot" -- set tehbot's user name to mytehbot
• config global set cmdprefix "!" -- set tehbot's command prefix to ! (tehbot will react to IRC messages that start with !)
• config global add connection ircnet irc.network.org 7000 -- add ircnet as IRC network tehbot should connect to

IRC Network Configuration

• config connection ircnet set ssl "True"
• config connection ircnet add channels #channel1
• config connection ircnet add channels #channel2channelkey
• config connection ircnet add operators your_nickserv_regged_nick1
• config connection ircnet add operators your_nickserv_regged_nick2

Optionally:

• config connection ircnet set botname "tehnetworkbot" -- set a network specific name tehbot should use
• config connection ircnet set password "********" -- set a NICKSERV password tehbot should use to authenticate
• config connection ircnet set host "irc.network.org"
• config connection ircnet set port 7000

Channel Configuration

• config channel ircnet #channel1 set password "********" -- set channel password for this channel
• config channel ircnet #channel1 set logging False -- turn off logging for this channel

Plugin Configuration

• config plugin PingPlugin set enabled True ...