hobobot

a simple, personal IRC bot

Required Modules

• Bot::BasicBot
• Yahoo::Weather
• DateTime

Use 'cpan' to get these modules.

Configuration

At the top of bot.pl, there is a Configuration section where you can configure the bot.

Note: If the bot is already running, you must restart the bot by killing the bot using !shutdown or !die, and then rerunning the script.

Running

$ chmod a+x bot.pl $ ./bot.pl

or, simply:

$ perl bot.pl

Available Commands

• !info - outputs a description about the bot.
• !die - cleanly stops the bot.
• !shutdown - same as !die.
• !weather - gets weather information from any part of the world. can only be a city. For more specific results, you should try adding a state, province, or country after the city.
• !seen - gets the last time the bot saw and what their last message was.
• !google - will generate a URL for a Google search for .
• !ndic - will generate a URL for a Naver search for .

Known bugs

• None.

Contact

Author: Lance Clark (haYnguy@gmail.com)