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

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

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

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

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