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Last Update: Fri Oct 25 05:49:45 -0700 2013

rbot - The Ruby IRC bot

rbot is a ruby IRC bot. Think of him as a ruby bot framework with a highly modular design based around plugins.

rbot features

  • Runtime configuration via irc chat
  • User authentication and access levels for using different bot features
  • Built in infobot-style keywords.
  • Support for underlying fact database (infobot fact files), which can be overridden or supplemented by runtime keyword controls
  • Multi-language support - comes with english, dutch, german, french, italian japanese, chinese and russian definitions so far - more translations welcome
  • Powerful plugin architecture, comes with plugins for:
    • DNS queries
    • Babelfish translation
    • Google searching
    • Excuse generation
    • Insult generation
    • Karma
    • Checking the weather
    • Querying slashdot
    • Doing Math
    • Per-channel quote storage, searching and retrieval
    • Reminders
    • rot13 translation
    • Check the spelling of a word
    • Webserver Server: header examination
    • RPG dice rolling
    • larting people
    • conversation stats
    • more…

Thanks are owed to the infobot developers - several of rbot‘s features are inspired by infobot and so are some of the default plugins. Thanks are also owed to RADKade1, as rbot‘s quote plugin is a direct reimplementation of his "quotesaq" - simply because it‘s a great quote interface.

Mainly, rbot‘s fun to play with, although the plugin architecture can be used to write very useful modules

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