Depressionbot IRC Bot

Introduction

Depressionbot is an IRC bot which aims to be the fanciest IRC bot around - On the general standard of software fanciness, dbot is rated as being ‘75% the same as bathing in fine, fine grape juice.’

Requirements: - Node JS - JSbot, the Javascript library I wrote to handle the IRC protocol and event listeners etc. - Various modules have their own requirements also.

Modules:

Quotes

Admin

Various administration functionality such as banning users, hot-reloading the code and ordering him to talk. Note that commands added here are handled with their own listener, rather than being part of the command logic which is handled by the Command module.

JS - Run Javascript code

This module provides two commands which allow the execution of Javascript code. For regular users, there is the ~js command, which is completely sandboxed, but can still be used for calculation and the like.

Example: > ~js Array(16).join(‘wat’-1) + ” Batman!“; ‘NaNNaNNaNNaNNaNNaNNaNNaNNaNNaNNaNNaNNaNNaNNaN Batman!’

This feature is fairly safe as the user doesn’t have access to anything dangerous, and is safe from infinite loops or locking DBot up because the code which is run is killed if it does not finish within a short amount of time.

For administrators, the incredibly useful ~ajs command is also available. The input for this command is simply ‘eval’-ed and therefore has full access to DBot’s memory. Of course, this is incredibly unsafe, but I find it rather fun. It’s useful for administrative activity for which there isn’t an in-built command. For example, you could hot-add a new administrator like this:

> ~ajs dbot.admin.push('batman');
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You can also use this for debugging, or even adding new commands while DBot is running.