a little bit of zeank » chatbot http://blog.jwchat.org coding and stuff Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:59:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Chatbot repositories moved http://blog.jwchat.org/2008/06/17/chatbot-repositories-moved/ http://blog.jwchat.org/2008/06/17/chatbot-repositories-moved/#comments Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:55:30 +0000 Steve http://zeank.in-berlin.de/2008/06/17/chatbot-repositories-moved/ As code.mabber.com has gone down some time ago I grabbed a dump of chatbot’s SVN repository lately and uploaded it into my own subversion service. So please if you’re interested into chatbot development (or maybe even usage :D) relocate your repository to

http://svn.jwchat.org/chatbot/trunk

UPDATE:
Chatbot is now being hosted at http://github.com/sstrigler/chatbot/tree/master

That’s the new home of chatbot’s code. Maybe some day I’ll go mad and crazy and setup a trac again. But don’t count on it.

]]> http://blog.jwchat.org/2008/06/17/chatbot-repositories-moved/feed/ ChatBot reloaded http://blog.jwchat.org/2007/06/12/chatbot-reloaded/ http://blog.jwchat.org/2007/06/12/chatbot-reloaded/#comments Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:45:56 +0000 Steve http://zeank.in-berlin.de/2007/06/12/chatbot-reloaded/ It was back in 1998 when Ryan Eatmon started coding on a Jabber channel bot (in Perl). For quite some time now no changes have been made to the code. As it would be really a shame to see this beautiful piece of software disappear in accordance with Ryan I decided to take over development from now on. For this a trac environment has been set up to coordinate further development.
Along with this there’s a subversion repository where you can get the code.

In order to download ChatBot please do

svn co http://code.mabber.com/svn/chatbot/trunk chatbot

So what’s new?

  • Some minor bug fixes (don’t crash on ‘join_channel’ command, fixed timers)
  • Crash handler for registered callbacks of plugins (plugins can’t crash ChatBot anymore)
  • New ‘plugin’ plugin that allows you to hot-deploy plugins (loading plugins whithout restarting) and enables hot code replacement (reload plugins if file changed)
  • A ‘feedreader’ plugin that, well you guessed it, allows to subscribe to feeds
  • An ‘ejabberdctl’ plugin to administrate ejabberd nodes from within chatbot (use with care!)
  • A ’spool’ plugin that reads raw xml from a spool and sends it accross the wire (inspired by jabberd14’s spool feature)
  • even more plugins

What’s left to say? Have fun playing with ChatBot (just like I have)!

]]> http://blog.jwchat.org/2007/06/12/chatbot-reloaded/feed/ sending raw xml from within chatbot http://blog.jwchat.org/2007/03/14/sending-raw-xml-from-within-chatbot/ http://blog.jwchat.org/2007/03/14/sending-raw-xml-from-within-chatbot/#comments Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:34:52 +0000 Steve http://zeank.in-berlin.de/2007/03/14/sending-raw-xml-from-within-chatbot/ Wrote a new ChatBot plugin today I thought I’d like to share with you. It enables you to send raw xml data with the help of a spool directory. Chatbot watches this directory. If it finds a file in there it sends its content accross the wire. Pretty handy for lots of stuff like interfacing with system monitors and so on.

Thanks to mawis who inspired me with this by having added sth. similar to jabberd14.

Download: spool.pl

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