papa-bot

Bot written in Go. Comprehensive in design, easily extensible. Initially designed for IRC, now supports multiple transports.

Full documentation @ GoDoc.org

⚠️ IRC transport is not being maintained anymore.

How good is it?

Bot is actively developed and constantly used by me and my friends, so there's that.

Features

• Multiple transports support.
• Easy to write extensions (just take a look at the example)
• Event based operation.
• Configuration through a TOML file and persistent run time variables.
• All text messages are in TOML files, for easy editing and l18n.
• Flood protection.
• Abuse protection.
• Ignore list.
• Stores all the links posted on the channel.
• Allows full text search through the links.
• Logs all channel activity.
• User accounts and permissions handling.

Supported transports

• IRC (built using github.com/sorcix/irc library.)
• Mattermost
• that's about it for now...

Bundled extensions

• Custom reminders.
• Custom counters/countdowns.
• Link title and description.
• Link duplicates announce.
• Link info from Reddit and pinned Reddit live announcements.
• GitHub repository information.
• BTC price check and rapid change announce (Bitstamp).
• Air quality data search (acqicn.org).
• Movie information (OMDb).
• Wikipedia article lookup.
• Wolfram Alpha lookup.
• YouTube video info.
• Link to thread version of Twitter status.
• Last seen speaking check.

TODO

• Figure out the bot-transports-events package entanglement so that transport can be passed in event.
• Unify extension panic and error handling.
• IRC split handling.
• Alt nicks handling
• Cross-transport people identification.
• Write some tests!