PISG/docs/FORMATS

FORMATS - supported logfile formats by pisg
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This file contains a list of the different logfile formats which pisg
supports. It also includes a sample line for these formats.

If you don't have access to any of the clients/bots or you use some other
IRC client/bot which isn't supported, then it's fairly easy to add support
for a new IRC log format if you have some Perl knowledge, take a look at
modules/Pisg/Parser/Format/Template.pm. If you don't have any Perl
knowledge, then mail a sample logfile to the mailinglist (preferred as a
link to the logfile)

* mIRC:
  - A client for Windows (www.mirc.com)
  
  - If you want to create mIRC logfiles with your eggdrop, you can get some TCL
    which does it all for you (also logrotating and much more).

    MEL (mIRCStats Eggdrop Logger) can be downloaded from the following URL:

    http://mel.angelbears.org/

    Remember to timestamp your logs, or it wont work, the timestamp must be
    in [HH:MM] or [HH:MM:SS] format.
    
  - In order to use this, format must be set to 'mIRC'.

  Example:
        [23:44] <Christina> Hello world

* X-Chat:
  -  A client for Linux (www.xchat.org)
    
  -  In order to use this, format must be set to 'xchat'.

  Both the old logformat, and the new logformat from 1.8.7 and above is
  supported.

  Example of old logformat:
        18:01:43 <Ben> Hello world

  Example of new logformat:
        jan 13 04:39:42 <Ben> Hello World


* Eggdrop:
  - A cool and advanced IRC bot for Linux (www.eggheads.org)

  - In order to use this, format must be set to 'eggdrop'.

  You might want to change the logfile-suffix in order for pisg to parse the
  files in the correct order when using 'logdir':
  set logfile-suffix ".%Y%m%d" instead of the standard format
  set logfile-suffix ".%d%b%Y".
  

  Example:
        [00:02] <Jenny> Hello world
     
* Grufti:
  - A bot which I'm not really familiar with (www.grufti.com)
  - The author has actually made something like pisg called 'gruftistats',
    but someone mailed me and told me that it hadn't been maintained for
    over a year, and it had some problems..

  - In order to use this, format must be set to 'grufti'
  
  Example:
        [00:17] <John> Hello world

* bxlog:
  - A logging script for BitchX (console client - see scripts.bitchx.com)
   
  - In order to use this, format must be set to 'bxlog'

  Example:
        [31 Dec/11:26] <John> Hello world

* mbot:
  - C-Based IRC Bot (http://darksun.com.pt/mbot/)
  - In the configuration file, timemode must be set to '1'

  - In order to use this, format must be set to 'mbot'

  Example:
        Thu Aug 23 12:59:40 2001 <John> Hello world

* irssi:
  - Console IRC client (www.irssi.org)
  
  - Logfiles must be using the default theme in irssi.

  - In order to use this, format must be set to 'irssi'

  Example:
        17:40 <@John> Hello world
        
* psybnc:
  - IRC bouncer (http://www.psychoid.lam3rz.de/)

  - In order to use this, format must be set to 'psybnc'

  Example:
  2001-08-19-23-14-06:#LINUX.DE::stelb!user@host.org PRIVMSG #linux.de :hi!
    
* winbot:
  - Windows-based IRC bot (http://www.winbot.co.uk/)

  - In order to use this, format must be set to 'winbot'

  Example:
  15:32.58 17/10/2001  <Azhrarn/#darkgalaxy> This is a normal line.

* zbot:
  - Bot written in C++ (http://zcbot.sourceforge.net/)

  - In order to use this, format must be set to 'zcbot'

  Example:
  12/11/01 22:05:42 :Keitaro!KOala_v5@EVYRV4A4.ipt.aol.com PRIVMSG #alsa-station :Re all :-)

* ircle:
  - IRC client for Mac OS X

  - Support for this format is not completely done yet.

  - In order to use this, format must be set to 'ircle'

  Example:
  6:35 PM:   Sinnikal: thats gross

* infobot:
  - bot written in Perl (http://www.infobot.org)

  - In order to use this, format must be set to 'infobot'

* Trillian:
  - Trillian's IRC component. (http://www.trillian.cc)

  Note: Your Logs must be timestamped in the format [%h:%m] or [%h:%m:%s]
  This is set in Preferences -> General -> Windows -> Display in your Trillian Client
  Tested with Trillian Version 0.70

  - In order to use this, format must be set to 'Trillian'

* bobot++:
  - IRC bot written in C++. (http://pltplp.net/bobot++/)

  - In order to use this, format must be set to 'bobot'

  Example:
  [13/12/2001 - 20:38] <NazoZzz> hello world

* axur/epic:
  - A unix shell client similar to bitchx but not quite.

  - EPIC is available at http://www.epicsol.org/

  - AXUR script for EPIC is available at
    http://www.asciifun.com/images/axur-2000.tar.gz or ax- b12r2.tar.gz

  axur/epic logs with two formats at once, one for normal users
  and one for the actual client doing the logging.  Why?  no idea.

  The normal format is of:
  [MM/DD/YYYY @ HH:MM:SS] <nick> saying
  [MM/DD/YYYY @ HH:MM:SS] * nick does some action here


  The loggers format is of:
  [MM/DD/YYYY @ HH:MM:SS] >(logger) saying
  [MM/DD/YYYY @ HH:MM:SS] >* logger does some action here

  Both is supported.

* Perlbot:
  - A bot which written in perl that supports loadable modules
    (http://perlbot.sourceforge.net)
  - It also has some modules for searching logs and some perl scripts
    for searching and browsing the log files.
    (See examples at http://stats.978.org)
  - Development on the bot seems to have stopped. I did need to edit it
    a bit to get it to log actions correctly.

  - In order to use this, format must be set to 'perlbot'

  Example:
        13:22:57 <Sc00ter> bah, gotta run to the store

* oer:
  - Bot written in C (http://oer.equnet.org/)

  - In order to use this, format must be set to 'oer'

    oer support isn't finished, the example lines won't work so I suggest you                   
    set the following options in your config:                                                   
                                                                                                
    <set show_kickline="0">                                                                     
    <set show_actionline="0">                                                                   
    <set show_shoutline="0">                                                                    
    <set show_violentlines="0">   

  - For a detailed description see:

  http://faq.equnet.org/show.php?area=b2VyIGFuZCBvZXIrTXlTUUwgRkFR&id=35&lang=en

  Example:
  1010866756 :EQU!equ@mira.equnet.org PRIVMSG #oer :test for mbrix

* muh
 - A bouncer for unix/linux (http://mind.riot.org/muh/)

 - In order to use this, format must be set to 'muh'.

 Since you can configure the log-format as you want to, the standard-format
 is used for parsing.
 In order to set it correctly add this to you muhrc:
        timestamptemplate = "[%a %d %b %H:%M:%S]";

 Example:
        [Sat 16 Mar 21:24:09] <pete> hello everybody

* Energymech:
  - An irc bot written in C which is currently beeing developed.

  - In order to use this, format must be set to 'energymech'.

  - Energymech is available at http://www.energymech.net or (better)
    at http://cvs.energymech.net 

  Example:
        [00:02] <Jenny> Hello world
	[00:04] Joins: vjaway (vector@p5086F6EF.dip.t-dialin.net)

* Dancer:
  - Bot written in C (http://dancer.sourceforge.net/)

  - In order to use this, format must be set to 'dancer'

  Example:
  15.57.40 # <elho> hello world! 

* ViRC98:                                                                                      
  - A client for Windows (http://www.hansprestige.com)                                         
      at this time is ViRC2.0rc1                                                               
      maybe the type of logs will change                                                       
                                                                                               
    Remember to timestamp your logs, or it wont work,                                          
    active it checking                                                                         
    "Client setup/ViRC '98 options/Chat logging/                                               
     (Miscellaneous logging options)Stamp every message logged with current                    
time"                                                                                          
                                                                                               
  - In order to use this, format must be set to 'virc98'.                                      
                                                                                               
  Examples:                                                                                    
    01.15.39 [Fender]   this is a normal line writen by myself                             
    00.55.38 <@jax1n0^O>   this is a normal line writen by another                                
    22.24.27 * Fender says an action                                                  

* pircbot
  - PircBot is a framework for an IRC Bot written in Java.  It allows you to
      create your own custom IRC Bots using Java by building on the framework
      that is already provided by the PircBot. 

  - Homepage: http://www.jibble.org/pircbot.php

  - In order to use this, format must be set to 'pircbot'.

  - Parses all data written by the bot as written by the nick assigned to 'maintainer'

  - Logs are timestamped with MILISECONDS since the epoch

  Example:
    1013630386748 :nick!ident@hostname PRIVMSG #channel :Hello world.