Introduction to PimpBot

Tue, Dec 2, 2003 with tags pimpbot

Reject was recently updated and as a result of the upgrade some software that was installed on there no longer works, among them the antiquated TCL-SQL module that powered the explain module of B|shop (the ircbot of #zoes). Being as I don’t have access to fix it myself, I just decided to write my own bot. So here comes PimpBot.

PimpBot is a simple Python script that works with Twisted to provide a plugin based framework for the creation of an IRC bot. Everything works as plugins that are written in Python and loaded at runtime. Currently there is a database access module and an explain module. I’m working on a userlist module. After that I’ll work on some more channel protection stuff. I’ll post the code as I get further along, right now I’ve got finals and stuff to worry about though.