An IRC bot, built in Erlang.

Configuration:

!c <expression> [, <expression> [, <expression [...]]]
<expression> is either <path> or <path> = <value>, in Erlang syntax; paths are lists.

For example, to instruct the bot to join a list of channels at startup:
!c [bot,channels] = ["#channel", "#otherchannel", "#thirdchannel"]

Starting the bot:

$ bot_start -s<server> -p<port> -t<transport>
Server, port, and transport default to the values in config/core.crl, which should be in the following format (entries can be skipped if desired):
[{port,6667}, {server,"irc.example.com"}, {transport,gen_tcp}]. - this is irc.example.com:6667, without SSL
[{port,6697}, {server,"irc.whatever.net"}, {transport,ssl}]. - irc.whatever.net:6697, with SSL

Starting the bot from the shell:

1> c(loader).
{ok,loader}.
2> loader:load().
[compilation output]
ok

followed by EITHER of

• 3> common:start() to use the server address/port/transport mode in the config file
• 3> common:start(Server, Transport, Port) to provide these values and skip the configuration. Server and Port will be passed to the Transport:connect() call unchanged. Transport should either be the atom ssl, the atom gen_tcp, or the name of any module which is API-compatible with gen_tcp and sends messages of the same format as either ssl or gen_tcp.

Licensing

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.