About

Another chatbot, this one written in node.js.

Requires

node.js version >= 5.8.0

ICU library. See installation notes in the node-icu-charset-detector project. This is a dependency of node-irc. For macOS:

brew install icu4c
brew link icu4c --force

For Ubuntu:

apt-get install libicu-dev

Mysql database with the following table:

CREATE TABLE `messages` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `nick` varchar(64) DEFAULT NULL,
  `message` text,
  `classification` varchar(16) DEFAULT NULL,
  `date` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
  KEY `nick` (`nick`),
  KEY `classification` (`classification`),
  KEY `i_date` (`date`)
)

Configure

Download the dependencies by cd-ing into the botboy directory and running:

npm install

• Copy bot.properties.sample to bot.properties
• Edit bot.properties to configure bot:
  • yahooId is optional, if present, yahoo answers API is used for some responses.
  • replPort is optional, if present, a REPL socket will listen on the specified port

Run

Easy start:

./startup.sh

This runs the bot through npm's start mechanism:

npm start

To start up the bot normally:

node botboy.js

To start up bot and leave a repl open (play with 'bot' variable):

node botboy.js shell

Same as above, but don't connect to IRC. Use this to debug message handling:

node botboy.js shell noconnect

Stop

./shutdown.sh

The shutdown.sh file will be automatically created when the bot starts.