I wrote a couple of new plugins for PimpBot last night. The first is a module that will take any URL that is posted in the channel over a certain length and submit it to TinyURL to get a tiny version of the URL. The result usually comes shortly after a message as the bot has got to submit the request to TinyURL. I should add some timeout functionality to it in case TinyURL goes down so the bot doesn’t miss stuff.
The second collects all the URLs posted in the channel and allows you to query them. Normally this is done by typing !urls, at which point the most recent 10 urls will be returned. You can also specify a search string, like !urls sportsbybrooks which will return the 10 most recent urls that contain a specific string in them.