hwipl-eggdrop-scripts

eggdrop-scripts

This repository contains a collection of long-forgotten scripts for the Eggdrop IRC bot. As a nostalgia project, they were pulled from old backups, more or less rewritten and tested in a current Linux environment. Some of the scripts are rather silly. So, please do not take them too seriously.

Overview:

• auth.tcl: authenticate the bot with an authentication service when connecting to a server.
• beer.tcl: give users in a channel a cold beverage.
• date.tcl: post the current date.
• funwar.tcl: post scheduled online gaming fun matches retrieved from a SQL database.
• greetings.tcl: greet users that join a channel.
• help.tcl: post a help text.
• host.tcl: resolve IP addresses or host names with the tool "host" and post the result.
• insult.tcl: generate random insults and post them.
• maketiny.tcl: generate tiny URLs and post them.
• match.tcl: store scheduled online gaming matches in a text file and post stored matches.
• qstat.tcl: query the status of online gaming servers with the tool "qstat" and post the result.
• topic.tcl: change the topic of a channel.
• watch.tcl: watch the online and offline status of users and post status changes.

Requirements

The scripts are written for the IRC bot Eggdrop in the programming language Tcl. The tested versions are:

• Eggdrop 1.8.4
• TCL 8.6

You need an IRC server to test the bot with these scripts. You can use a public one or run your own. The scripts were tested with the IRC server InspIRCd. The tested version is:

• InspIRCd 3.4.0

The script funwar.tcl requires a PostgreSQL server. The tested version is:

• PostgreSQL 12.1

The script qstat.tcl requires the tool qstat. The tested version is:

• qstat 2.15 (Pre-release: commit 85fbecb on Dec 1, 2018)

The script host.tcl requires the tool "host" that is part of the bind tools. The tested version is

• host/bind-tools 9.14.8