README.md

##ICARUS BOT

This is a very simple IRC bot that I built from scratch because I wanted to learn about RFC 2813

##Creating a bot:

• npm install icarusbot

• npm install any plugins you want.

• Copy node_modules/icarusbot/config.dist.json to node_modules/icarusbot/config.json TODO: Fix that, updates break config.

• Fill out all the stuff in config.json

• Write a bot consumer:

  var bot = require('icarusbot')
  var pluginFoo = require('icarubot-plugin-foo')(bot)
  var pluginBar = require('icarubot-plugin-bar')(bot)

• Run your bot node whatever-you-name-your-bot.js

##Creating a plugin: The bot currently emits various events that you can listen to, most notably the msg event.

Here is a simple plugin:

module.exports = function(bot) {
  bot.on('msg',function(msg) {
    console.log(msg) // {sender: 'a_nick', chan: '##foo', msg: 'foo bar baz'}

    // bot.msg() supports writing messages in a sane way.
    if (msg.msg === 'wow') {
      bot.msg(['#channel1', '#channel2'], 'mom')
    }
  })
}

#Current plugins (PR to add yours!):

• icarusbot-lysergix:

  • Adds a handler for a !face message that posts a random face from lysergix-api

• icarusbot-reddit:

• Adds a !r command that accepts a subreddit and optionally an nth latest post and returns the title and link of the post.

• icarusbot-twitter:

• Adds !tw command with various subcommands to interact with twitter.

• icarusbot-coinflip:

• Adds a !flip command for when you just can't make up your mind.