DaZeus

This is DaZeus 2.0, a tiny IRC bot that works with out-of-process plugins. It provides a configuration, database and IRC interface via UNIX or TCP sockets to its plugins.

Installing

This application has the following dependencies:

• libircclient (tested against 1.3 and 1.6)
• libmongo-client (tested against 0.1.4)
• cmake (tested against 2.8.7 and 2.8.9)

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.

When DaZeus is 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, the DaZeus 1 Legacy Daemon is required for now, and can be retrieved at https://github.com/dazeus/dazeus-legacyd.

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.

A list of supported plugins is available at https://github.com/dazeus, for example:

• dazeus-legacyd: A Perl daemon that runs the DaZeus 1 Legacy plugins as DaZeus 2 plugins
• dazeus-plugin-twitter: A plugin for integrating with Twitter users, lists and search queries
• 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-mediawiki: A plugin for integrating MediaWiki edits with IRC
• dazeus-plugin-karma: A plugin for keeping karma scores

Authors

The maintainer of DaZeus is Sjors Gielen [email protected]. Also, Ferdi van der Werf [email protected] provided patches to the core bot.