yossarian-bot

An entertaining IRC bot that's easy to extend.

Features:

• Simple real-time administration.
• Unix fortunes (fortune must be present)
• Catch-22 quotes
• UrbanDictionary queries
• Wolfram|Alpha queries
• Smart weather queries (Wunderground)
• Google searches
• YouTube searches
• ROT13 message "encryption"
• Magic 8 Ball queries
• Dictionary queries (Merriam-Webster)
• Cleverbot discussions
• Channel 'seen' log
• Link compression (TinyURL)
• ...and much more!

Installation

First, clone the repo and install yossarian-bot's dependencies:

$ git clone https://github.com/woodruffw/yossarian-bot
$ cd yossarian-bot
$ bundle install

If you get errors during the bundle installation process, make sure that:

• You're using ruby 2.3 or greater
• Ruby's development headers/files are installed (should be ruby2.3-dev or similar in your package manager)

yossarian-bot also requires API keys for several services. Make sure that they are exported to the environment (or set in the configuration) as follows:

• Wolfram|Alpha - WOLFRAM_ALPHA_APPID_KEY
• Weather Underground - WUNDERGROUND_API_KEY
• Merriam-Webster - MERRIAM_WEBSTER_API_KEY
• YouTube (v3) - YOUTUBE_API_KEY
• Last.fm - LASTFM_API_KEY, LASTFM_API_SECRET
• Open Exchange Rates - OEX_API_KEY
• Giphy - GIPHY_API_KEY
• Goodreads - GOODREADS_API_KEY
• BreweryDB - BREWERYDB_API_KEY
• AirQuality - AIRNOW_API_KEY
• OMDB - OMDB_API_KEY

Additionally, the fortune utility must be present in order for Unix fortunes to work correctly. Some package managers also provide the fortunes, fortunes-off, and fortunes-bofh-excuses packages for additional fortune messages.

Running

Once all dependencies are installed, yossarian-bot can be run as follows:

$ ruby bot-control.rb start
$ # OR:
$ ruby yossarian-bot.rb # not run in background

Using the bot

Configuration Options

yossarian-bot is configured via a YAML file named config.yml.

Look at the example config.yml to see a list of optional and required keys.

Commands

There are a bunch of commands that yossarian-bot accepts. You can see a complete list in the COMMANDS file.

Matches

yossarian-bot matches all HTTP[S] links and messages the title of the linked HTML page. This feature can be disabled by adding LinkTitling to the server's disabled_plugins array in config.yml.

Messages of the form s/(.+)/(.+) are also matched, and the first pattern matched is applied to the user's last previous message, with the second match replacing it. For example, a typo like "this is a setnence" can be corrected with s/setnence/sentence. This feature can be disabled by adding RegexReplace to the server's disabled_plugins array in config.yml.

Contributing

Contributions to yossarian-bot are welcomed and appreciated.

If you're writing a plugin, check out the quick style guide to writing plugins for yossarian-bot.

If you'd like to contribute but don't have any contributions in mind, check out the open issues. They're regularly updated with things that can be fixed, improved, and added.

License

yossarian-bot is licensed under the MIT License.

For the exact terms, see the license file.