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Package "irc_client"

Title:Low level interface to IRC clients
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Latest version:1.3.0
SHA1 sum:9e5bea8e9e3d745ebfc349af041b4c550ddf70c8
Author:Ebrahim Azarisooreh <ebrahim.azarisooreh@gmail.com>
Home page:https://github.com/eazar001/irc_client
Download URL:https://github.com/eazar001/irc_client/archive/v1.3.0.zip
Requires:func
lambda
list_util

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What this is

This is a low level IRC client library for making anything related to IRC usage. For example, one can make a traditional bot, conversation analyzer, simple logging system, statistics tracker, or even a full blown IRC Chat application.

What this does

This is a layer of abstraction over the IRC protocol. It helps you establish connections to multiple servers and channels, using different nicknames. Each connection will run in separate threads that contain aliases that you give to them. The job of irc_client is to handle the bookkeeping of all the specs for each server connection, and handle the streaming of IRC server relayed messages to event handlers that you declare. This does NOT maintain persistent connections, or even display the text for you. However, this is simple enough to do by asserting event handlers. See the examples.pl file in the examples folder for a clue on how to get this done. Also, an example of an IRC bot that uses this library can be found at: https://github.com/eazar001/yesbot

How do I use this?

% sends a message in the ##prolog channel saying "hello world", using
% the connection with the alias, "freenode".
?- priv_msg(freenode, "hello world", "##prolog").

% sends a message to the user "nick02" with "hello" and "world", each
% on separate lines, on the connection with the alias, "efnet".
?- priv_msg(efnet, "hello\nworld", "nick02").

% sends an invitation to ##math, for freenode user, "user001"
?- send_msg(freenode, invite, "user001", "##math").

% disconnects from server on the efnet connection alias.
?- send_msg(efnet, quit).

One of the most important predicates is priv_msg/N. This is needed for sending private messages to channels, or to individual users.

  • priv_msg(+Id, +Text, +Recipient) This will send Text to the Recipient, on the connection Id. Id is an atom; Text and Recipient are strings. If the character limit is exceeded, the text will automatically be segmented into several messages, until the full message is delivered.
  • priv_msg(+Id, +Text, +Recipient, :Options). Here one has special options. auto_nl(Boolean) where Boolean can be specified as true or false. If true, messages that are too large will be automatically segmented into multiple messages. at_most(N), where N represents the number of lines that will be sent (at most). This is useful for rate limiting.

    Another important group of predicates is send_msg/N. This group of predicates is responsible for sending certain types of messages that are responsible for carrying out various IRC actions. A basic understanding of IRC protocols is required to use these. The arity (N) of send_msg/N, at this point, ranges from 2 to 4. ALL OF THESE commands must have the first argument as the connection ID to send the message on. The format for these commands are listed below:

  • send_msg(ID, admin, "target").
  • send_msg(ID, away, "away message")
  • send_msg(ID, help)
  • send_msg(ID, info).
  • send_msg(ID, links).
  • send_msg(ID, lusers, "##channel").
  • send_msg(ID, names, "##channel").
  • send_msg(ID, oper, "username", "pass").
  • send_msg(ID, rules).
  • send_msg(ID, userip, "nick").
  • send_msg(ID, users).
  • send_msg(ID, who_op, "##channel").
  • send_msg(ID, who_ops).
  • send_msg(ID, whois, "nick").
  • send_msg(ID, whowas, "nick").
  • send_msg(ID, notice, "message", "chan or nick").
  • send_msg(ID, time, "server").
  • send_msg(ID, kick, "##channel", "user").
  • send_msg(ID, invite, "user", "##channel").
  • send_msg(ID, topic, "##channel", "topic message").
  • send_msg(ID, quit).
  • send_msg(ID, nick, "nickname").
  • send_msg(ID, join, "channel"). There is an examples folder containing examples (with comments) that demonstrate how this is meant to be used.

What else?

I will add more commands and features as I find time to work on this, but for now ... pull requests are very much welcome.

At the time of writing this, this library is being used for one of the bots in ##prolog (Yesbot). There's another bot that's used for interactive prolog commands in-channel (PrologMUD). The second bot can be found at https://github.com/TeamSPoon/MUD_ircbot

Contents of pack "irc_client"

Pack contains 11 files holding a total of 28.6K bytes.