Minilodon

This is a simple chatbot that kicks anyone who hasn't spoken in over an hour and has a bunch of other features. It is configured via a config file that looks like this:

config.json

{
  "server": "irc.example.com",
  "port": 6667,
  "nick": "Minilodon",
  "password": "rycbar123",
  "mainchannel": "#Minilodon",
  "controlchannel": "#Minilodon-admin",
  "idletime": 3600.0
}

Anyone in the config channel is assumed to have admin privileges, please ensure proper access control is in place.

Running:

Currently, the bot can be started by simply invoking bot.py.

Features:

• Kicks anyone after an hour of inactivity.
• Has a simple key-value lookup for any key prefaced with !
• Keys can be updated from the control channel with !update <category> <key> <value>
• Links will be ran through YoutubeDL, if found will produce title, views.
• All messages will be logged immediately to a file <channel>.log

Extensibility:

It's simple to add more commands for the bot to handle more commands. To do so, define a new function with the @bot.command(command, control) decorator. command is a string set to what command to handle. control is a boolean defaulting to false, if set to true the command will run in the control channel rather than the main one.

Functions can use the bot.send_msg(message, control) and bot.send_action(message) functions to send output back to the channels.

TODO:

• Configurable kick timer
• More avenues of lookup such as wiki or wordpress
• Look into changing kick timer at runtime
• Initialize kicker on join