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Easily create IRC bots in Python with PyBotlib

Back when I wrote ProxyBot, I was frustrated by the fact that there was a lack of maintained and documented third party libraries for the IRC client protocol. So I essentially wrote my own implementation of the IRC client protocol for use with the bots that I write. Well I wrote the library to take advantage of OOP (Object Oriented Programming for those who don’t know) which in turn made it really quick and easy for me to throw together a bot.

So this is a simple little tutorial on how to write a basic “Hello World” bot using PyBotlib. The library itself is only a single file so I have not bothered to repackage it or write setup scripts as you will only need import that single file within your application. You may get the latest source code for the library at any time here (google code/SVN) or here (blog). So here we go…

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ProxyBot and PyBotlib

Recently, some of my friends had inspired me to start looking into how to make IRC bots. Well I did, and honestly I was fascinated by it. So anyway, I made my own implementation of the IRC specification as well as my first bot in python within a day or so. Since then I’ve made a bot which I called ProxyBot which allows a user to do things like portscans or an IP range/hostname and or a port range. If the bot finds a port open, it logs it to a PgSQL database which can then be searched later on for all IPs which have a given port open. It will also do standard hostname resolution. I will be releasing the source code under the GPLv3 and it will be avalible for download shortly.