This handy little bot keeps track of RSS feeds, and announces in the channel when one is updated. (note: be sure to edit the path to the datafiles) Each poller runs inside its own ruby thread, and can be run on its own independent schedule require ‘thread’ require ‘rss/1.0′ require ‘rss/2.0′ require ‘open-uri’ require ‘fileutils’ [...]
This bot is perfect for anything where you need to easily build IRC channel notifications into an existing process. It’s simple, clean, and agnostic. Quite simply you connect to a TCP port, give it one line, the port closes, the line given shows up in the channel. eg: echo ‘hello’ | nc -q 1 bothost [...]
What an awesome awesome thing for people who use IRC in their day to day lives! I’ll post a couple of utility leaves here real quick. Link: http://www.shutupgeorge.com/al-docs/