IRC Notification Bot With node.js

This bot is a product of a simple need of notifying people when their friends login to a particular channel.

The need :

• Simple IRC bot, that would notify its master.

• Easy to configure.

• Easy maintainability.

The answer was to do it with node.js!

To get up and running :

• Indeed you must have node.

• npm install irc

• Check out the code from the repo and edit config.js as per need.

• Finally start the bot node notify.js and the pm notifications ;)

The code :

The config file : [ Power of JS objects FTW! ]

var config = {};

config.chans = “#yeoman, #html5”; config.server = “irc.freenode.net”; config.botName = “notify-bot”; config.friends = “firend1, firend2, firends3”; config.master = “hemanth”; module.exports = config;

The bot :

!/usr/bin/env node

var irc = require(‘irc’); var config = require(’./config’);

var chans = config.chans.split(”/, /”); var server = config.server; var botName = config.botName; var friends = config.friends.split(/, /); var master = config.master;

var bot = new irc.Client(server,botName, { channels: chans });

bot.addListener(‘join’, function (channel, who) { console.log(who); console.log(friends.indexOf(who)); console.log(friends); if(friends.indexOf(who) >=0){

bot.say(master,who + " joined "+channel); 

} });

Hope this helps, as it’s helping me. Your suggestions are welcome, do check out l33ty