IRC bot wishlist
From Bob's Basement
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Subversion commit notifications
Subversion runs a script called post-commit in the hooks directory of the SVN repository. This can call a PERL script to gather information about the commit and feed it into the TCP socket on the bot.
Wiki stats
Select wiki stats from the MySQL database. More info on this can be found on the Asterisk_wishlist page.
Remind group about things
I'm thinking about making this user definable, with the user able to select the type and frequency of reminders. I'm thinking of the following reminders:
- Email
- IRC message
- Txt message
- VoIP phone call
- PSTN call?
I think it could be done via a web and IRC control panel.
Implimentation
Not sure of the best way to set this up. Maybe an at or cron job?
IRC
This can be scheduled in with the bot.
Txt messages
Can be sent via the BB Clickatel account. Again via at or cron or maybe we could write a sender daemon?
VoIP
This could be done via an Asterisk .call file
PSTN
This could be again done via an Asterisk .call file using a VoIP > PSTN gateway
Basic directory
News headlines
This can be done fairly easilly in the same way to !weather and !breaking news only the BBC decided to make the whole line on a single line!
The Beeb has finally fixed this but I've also worked out how to use the XML parser. The current though it working out how to sort the headlines by date posted and pick the top 5.
Help system
Poke
Poke someone via txt message.
Subnet calculator
Info on subnets (network number, broadcast, number of IPs, etc.
State saving
When the IRC bot quits, it looses all variables that store information such as the reminders, tell information and other such things. The idea is to have the bot write these out to file and read them back in when the bot starts again.
- Reminder
- Stats
- Tell
- Seen
Wiki update notifications
This can be done using a wiki hook to run a script to notify the bot via TCP.
I could also be done using the UDP notify feature of MediaWiki or by polling the recent changes XML feed.
