triviabot

A IRC trivia bot written in python using twisted.

Features

Simple implementation. Questions are ` formatted in plain text files.

Configurable colored text to help differentiate game text from user text.

Event driven implementation: uses very little cycles.

Implementation

triviabot uses a config.py and comes with an example for you to tweak and use.

Questions exist in files under $BOTDIR/questions. Each round, a file is selected at random, then a line is selected at random from the file.

The answer is then masked and the question is asked. Periodically, the bot will ask the current question again and unmask a letter. This happens three times before the answer is revealed.

What the bot doesn't do.

• It doesn't have multiple answers to a question. It shows you the format. Part of the game is to match its formatting.

• Have error-free questions: the questions come from other bot implementations which themselves had horrible typos. There needs to be an army of editors to go through the 350+k lines and format them to the standard format for the bot. The bot was written to catch malformed questions so it wouldn't crash, but if it technically matches ` there's no way for the bot to understand that's not part of the question.

Todo:

Look at the issues. Pull requests welcome.

Contact, Support, Development:

Quakenet IRC - #triviabot-dev http://webchat.quakenet.org/?channels=triviabot-dev

GitHub Issues/Tickets https://github.com/rawsonj/triviabot/issues

License:

Released under the GPLv3.

Modifications:

The authors of these modifications are Gabriel Artigue and Matheus Fillipe (gartigue@gmx.com).

Installation

• Clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/matheusfillipe/triviabot.git

• Have python 3 installed and python virtualenv

# Debian, ubuntu 
sudo apt install python3-virtualenv

# Archlinux
sudo pacman -S pyton-virtualenv

# Or with pip/pip3
pip3 install virtualenv

• Create a virtual environment

This will create a venv inside the "venv" folder.

cd triviabot
python -m venv venv # can also be python3 in some distros

• Install dependencies

Source the environment and install dependencies

source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

• Copy the example configuration

mv example_config.py config.py

Open config.py and edit the pertinent values like SERVER, ADMIN etc. If you wish to add more languages you can create your translations on the strings.py file. Make sure to set a server, port, ssl, channel, and admin nick that makes sense.

• Create the scores file

touch savedata/scores.json

• Create the questions folder

You can create questions by adding files that will be recursively looked up inside the Q_DIR folder that defaults to "questions" on the config. The format uses : and ` as separators.

THEME: questions text here?`answer now

You can also just grab the questions from the upstream questions folder: https://github.com/rawsonj/triviabot/tree/master/questions

• And now you can test run it

python trivia.py

Production

If you want the bot to auto start on boot and be able to have it always running on background i recommend using pm2: https://pm2.keymetrics.io/docs/usage/quick-start/

It requires nodejs and npm:

npm install pm2@latest -g

Then go into the triviabot directory and run:

pm2 start trivia.py --name trivia --interpreter "$(pwd)/venv/bin/python3"

Now you are all set up. You can see logs with pm2 logs trivia, start, restart or stop with pm2 start trivia and so on.

Usage

The bot has a nice !help command that will PM you with the commands you are allowed to use. Admins have extra commands.

unpriviledged_commands = {'score'
                          'help'
                          'source'
                          'rank'
                          'repeat'
                          'next'
                          }

priviledged_commands = {'die'
                        'restart'
                        'update'
                        'set'
                        'start'
                        'stop'
                        'save'
                        'rankon'
                        'rankoff'
                        'skip'
                        }

You can specify a custom config passing it to the script as the first argument. This should be a python file like example_config.py and needs to reside in the same directory as trivia.py:

python trivia.py config_en.py