Another chatbot, this one written in node.js.

node.js version >= 5.8.0

ICU library. See installation notes in the node-icu-charset-detector project. This is a dependency of node-irc. For macOS:

brew install icu4c brew link icu4c --force 

For Ubuntu:

apt-get install libicu-dev 

Mysql database with the following table:

CREATE TABLE `messages` ( `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `nick` varchar(64) DEFAULT NULL, `message` text, `classification` varchar(16) DEFAULT NULL, `date` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, PRIMARY KEY (`id`), KEY `nick` (`nick`), KEY `classification` (`classification`), KEY `i_date` (`date`) ) 

Download the dependencies by cd-ing into the botboy directory and running:

npm install 

• Copy bot.properties.sample to bot.properties
• Edit bot.properties to configure bot:
  • yahooId is optional, if present, yahoo answers API is used for some responses.
  • replPort is optional, if present, a REPL socket will listen on the specified port

Easy start:

./startup.sh 

This runs the bot through npm's start mechanism:

npm start 

To start up the bot normally:

node botboy.js 

To start up bot and leave a repl open (play with 'bot' variable):

node botboy.js shell 

Same as above, but don't connect to IRC. Use this to debug message handling:

node botboy.js shell noconnect 

./shutdown.sh 

The shutdown.sh file will be automatically created when the bot starts.