pinhook

a pluggable irc bot framework in python

Currently in very early stages and may change wildly until final release

Tutorial

Installation

$ pip install git+git://github.com/archangelic/pinhook.git

Creating the Bot

To create the bot, just create a python file with the following:

import pinhook.bot

bot = pinhook.bot.Bot(
    channels=['#foo', '#bar'],
    nickname='ph-bot',
    server='irc.freenode.net'
)
bot.start()

This will start a basic bot and look for plugins in the 'plugins' directory to add functionality.

Optional arguments are:

• port: choose a custom port to connect to the server (default: 6667)
• ops: list of operators who can do things like make the bot join other channels or quit (default: empty list)
• plugin_dir: directory where the bot should look for plugins (default: "plugins")

Creating plugins

In your chosen plugins directory ("plugins" by default) make a python file with a function. You can use the @pinhook.plugin.register decorator to tell the bot the command to activate the function.

The function will need to be structured as such:

import pinhook.plugin

@pinhook.plugin.register('!test')
def test_plugin(**kwargs):
    nick = kwargs['nick']
    message = '{}: this is a test!'.format(nick)
    return pinhook.plugin.message(message)

The function will need to accept **kwargs in order to gather information from the bot.

Keyword arguments currently passed to the plugin:

• cmd: the command that triggered the function
• nick: the user who triggered the command
• arg: all the trailing text after the command. This is what you will use to get optional information for the command

The plugin function must return one of the following in order to give a response to the command:

• pinhook.plugin.message: basic message in channel where command was triggered
• pinhook.plugin.action: CTCP action in the channel where command was triggered (basically like using /me does a thing)

Examples

There are some basic examples in the examples directory in this repository.

For a live and maintained bot running the current version of pinhook see pinhook-tilde.