eggdrop IRC bot

dotascript is taking on new heights! For some time I’ve been thinking about restructuring our dotascript and possible simplifying it by using a bot. But the entire process of installing and configuring a bot, learning Tcl and finding a host for the bot have felt a bit overwhelming, so I’ve postponed it several times. But now that my exams are over I think I can find the time. I will take it stepwise and hopefully with perseverance I will have solved all my issues. Don’t worry – be happy!

I am now well on my way having read a couple of Tcl tutorials and installed and compiled the eggdrop bot.

Here is my cookbook:

• download eggdrop
• checkout ‘troubleshooting make’
• sudo ./configure
• sudo make configure
• sudo make
• sudo make install
• cd ~/eggdrop
• eggdrop -m config-file
• chmod u+x config-file
• (next time: ./config-file)
• /msg bot hello (and follow instructions)
• telnet localhost port
• .chanset #channel need-key putserv “JOIN #channel password”
• in config-file:
  bind EVNT -|- init-server init:server
  proc init:server {event} {
  global botnick
  putquick “PRIVMSG Q@Cserve.quakenet.org :AUTH “
  putquick “MODE $::botnick +x”
  }

Wow, that was a lot but I am happy that I got it working in just one evening. Now I just need to write my Tcl scripts.
Dotascript here we go!

eggheads

UPDATE:
I love LAN. I have spent much of my time scripting the dota bot and finishing dotascript lite.
I am happy to announce that I have now finished the bot. It should run with most of the required features, such as addall, removeall and poweradd.. It even has support for both game types – hamachi and garena. The bot is written in Tcl, a very oldschool programming language while dotascript lite (the client side script) has been written for mIRC in mIRC’s own scripting language and for Xchat in Python. It has been a good experience. Now I only need to find a host for the bot so I can join in on the fun with my client .