pybot

pybot is a python irc bot. he is a project.

he is modular, extensible, multi-threaded, and configurable.

10-second TL;DR:

1. modify pybotrc with your channels and passwords.
2. Run ./setup.sh. It will check for dependencies and create a mysql_init file.
3. ./bot.py pybotrc
4. rejoice.

Longer explanation: pybot requires mysqldb. It's probably in your package manager. It will run without it, it'll just throw lots of exceptions. SQLite integration and no-db (pickle) support are in the works.

Automagic

Run ./setup.sh and follow the prompts. It will create a mysql_init file, which you can then run against mysql with mysql -p < mysql_init. This will create your database and add a user with full privileges on that database. Your bot will run as this user. Put that information into the pybotrc. If you do not run ./setup.sh you will have to perform the step below.

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Manual

Add a mysql user for pybot with permissions to update, insert, and delete from the created tables. Logged into mysql: grant all on <dbname>.* to '<username>' identified by '<password>';

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Run the included mysql_dump file (as root, mysql -p <pybot's database name> < mysql_dump). Set his dbpass in the config file (pybotrc) to the password you've given him. Copy that config file to the home folder of whatever user will be running the bot. (~user/.pybotrc) As that user, ./bot.py.

This project uses smiley's steamapi for its steam integration, and PRAW (python reddit API wrapper) for the redditinfo module.