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                                                   v2.0

Snekbot 🐍

Snekbot is an IRC bot, or rather an IRC bot framework. It has no dependencies, apart from the Python 3 standard library.

Run it this way:

python3 run.py

Configuration

The bot can be configured using data/config.py. Most options are self-explanatory, but these may need some details:

• nickserv_curse: If a NOTICE containing this phrase is received from a user with the name NickServ and a user level (see below) of LEVEL_SERVICE, the bot will try to identify itself if a password is known.
• nickserv_magic: If a phrase containing this phrase is received from the same NickServ, this will be interpreted as having succesfully logged in.
• command_prefix: What goes in front of commands. For example, if this is !, and a command seen is known, the bot will recognize a message beginning with !seen as an invocation of that command.

Plugins/adding commands

You can add bot commands by adding python files to the plugins folder. See example.py in that folder for an example.

The admin command !reload (one of the only commands available by default) reloads plugins and can be used to add commands while the bot is running.

User levels

People are assigned user levels by the bot. Everyone has the level LEVEL_USER by default. There are two other levels that may be useful:

• LEVEL_ADMIN: These people can use admin commands (plugins built on top of the admin_command class).
• LEVEL_SERVICE: These users are recognized as IRC services. Currently this is only useful for NickServ; a user will only be recognized as the "true" NickServ if they have this level.

It is recommended that you add an admin command through which people may be assigned a new user level. There is currently no way to create the "first admin" through the bot; you'll have to manually edit data/snekbot.db for that. Simply change the value of the level column of the appropriate person to 5.

Contact

By Stijn.