A simple IRC bot written in Ruby, mostly for my own amusement purposes. Has been running in production since 2009. Not the prettiest little fellow, but scratches my itch very well. Occasionally updated with new features when needs pop up.

Features

• Dynamic reloading of modules on-the-fly so the bot can stay online while being updated. This makes doing small improvements or hacks convenient.
• A few useful modules to improve the IRC experience
  • YouTube: fetch youtube urls and tell the title, rating etc.
  • Twitter: show contents of a twitter status link
  • Newstitle: fetch and shout title to channel for popular Finnish news sites when somene posts an url to a piece of news
• A few less useful modules, just for the lulz:
  • Monkey: define your own monkey-like replies with regexps. E.g. when someone says anything containing "banana", the bot may reply "mm, yummy banana!". Let your imagination be the limit of what the MonkeyModule (TM) can do.
  • LMGTFY: someone asks a stupid question? No problem, you can be a smartass and support this by easily linking the topic in lmgtfy.

Installing

1. Install Ruby >= 1.9 (tested using Ruby 1.9.3 and rvm)
2. bundle install
3. cp example_config.yml my_bot.yml
4. vim my_bot.yml
5. bin/lullizio my_bot.yml

Additionally, if you want to use Twitter support, export the following environment variables before running:

export TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY=""
export TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET=""
export TWITTER_OAUTH_TOKEN=""
export TWITTER_OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET=""

The runner will automatically check for lullizio.env, and load it before starting the bot, so that could be the place to add them. Or somewhere else, whatever.