IRC

Programming IRC bots is fun and allows you to be very creative, as you are responsible for everything they say and do. Later chapters will show you how to create all sorts of IRC bots to log channels, create comic strips, pass on messages, shar...

Five years later, he clearly defined the IRC protocol in RFC 1459, which made the whole protocol much more accessible. Armed with this information, you can get a better understanding of this simple text-based protocol and learn how to conne...

In this example, you will build a simple IRC bot that connects to an IRC server and joins a channel. The term "bot" is commonly used to describe an automated IRC client and is a contraction of "robot." You will get the bot to output infor...

Net::IRC is a Perl module that lets you make IRC clients. It allows you to think about what your bot actually does, instead of having to think about all those little noninteresting protocol details [Hack #32] . This hack will explain how ...

Using a Java program to connect to IRC is perhaps the most flexible solution, as it can run on any machine that has a Java Virtual Machine installed and can also run inside a web browser as an Applet. 5.5.1 The Code Save the ...

It allows you to abstract yourself away from the underlying protocols and concentrate on making bots that do something useful. Using this framework is much easier than implementing all of the grunt work by yourself. Connecting to a server, fo...

Python is becoming a popular language for writing IRC bots. This can be attributed to the way you can achieve quite a lot with just a little bit of code. Python does not include an IRC module as standard, but there are a few Python IRC module...

It also has support for extensions so a programmer can add his own events and functions to the library. The latest IRCLib can be downloaded from http://irclib.bitlbee.org. We'll assume you already know how to install Python modules, sinc...

This hack shows you how to write an extension for IRCLib [Hack #37] . Extensions are simply Python scripts that add events and/or methods to the IRCLib classes. This allows you to have a modular, incremental approach to creating bots, adding...

You may wonder why—after all, what's the difference between a bot and regular chatter? They're totally identical as far as the server is concerned, and even human users may find it difficult to see the difference immediately. Most IRC ne...