DaZeus

This is DaZeus 2.0, a modular IRC bot that utilizes out-of-process plugins. It provides a configuration, database and IRC interface through UNIX and TCP sockets to its plugins.

Installing

This application has the following dependencies:

• libircclient (tested against 1.3, 1.6 and 1.8)
• cmake (tested against 2.8.7 and 2.8.9)

Depending on which database backend you would like to use, the following additional dependencies apply:

• libmongo-client (MongoDB, tested against 0.1.4)
• libpqxx (PostgreSQL, tested against 3.1 and 4.0)
• libsqlite3 (SQLite, tested against 3.7)

To compile DaZeus, first checkout the Git submodules, then use CMake:

git submodule update --init
mkdir -p build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=.. ..
make install

This creates a dazeus binary in the bin directory that you can run. If you intend to run DaZeus 2.0 elsewhere, you can manually copy the binary there, or simply not give the -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=.. option to CMake if you want to install DaZeus systemwide.

Running

When the dazeus binary is run, it reads the dazeus.conf configuration file (unless you give the -c option). A sample configuration file is in the project source root, called dazeus.sample.conf.

After DaZeus has started, it connects to the database and to the IRC servers as defined in the configuration file. It also sets up the UNIX and TCP sockets as configured.

To get a useful interface with the bot, plugins are required. The section below covers a few of the basic plugins.

Plugins

The API that plugins use over the socket interface is described in the doc directory. Bindings are available for Perl, C, C++/Qt and NodeJS at the DaZeus project on GitHub.

Please note: bindings need to be installed separately!

A list of supported plugins is available at https://github.com/dazeus. A few commonly used examples are:

• dazeus-plugin-channels: manages DaZeus's presence in channels, including automatic (re)joining after (re)connecting.
• dazeus-plugin-channellink: a plugin for linking two IRC channels together, causing their message lines to be shared (one-way or two-way)
• dazeus-plugin-commits: a plugin for reporting Git commits on IRC
• dazeus-plugin-factoids: allows users to set and recall factoids from DaZeus' database.
• dazeus-plugin-karma: A plugin for keeping karma scores
• dazeus-plugin-mediawiki: a plugin for integrating MediaWiki edits with IRC
• dazeus-plugin-twitter: a plugin for integrating with Twitter users, lists and search queries

Contributing

Contributions, be it amendments to the core bot or to any plugins, are most welcome! Simply fork one or more of our repositories and submit pull requests for each of your patches.

Acknowledgements

The lead developer for DaZeus is Sjors Gielen dazeus@sjorsgielen.nl. Currently it is co-authored by Ruben Nijveld ruben@gewooniets.nl and Aaron van Geffen aaron@aaronweb.net.

Several more contributors can be found in Git history.

To everyone who helped make DaZeus what it is today: thank you!