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BurgieBot is a project that was started early 2008 by Nicolas Trangez and had some short bursts of development since. Its purpose since has been to run inside a small IRC-channel, logging, and more importantly hosting trivia games.

The trivia plugin is the most important feature of BurgieBot, and the one I enjoyed most over the last months. I didn’t announce it back then because it had some small bugs that needed fixing. Those are fixed now, and the bot runs quite nicely. There’s a lot that I wanted to fix/change before releasing it, but following the release early, release often philosophy, I’m releasing it now.

BurgieBot pros

• Easy to extend with plugins
• Trivia plugin
• Automatic reloading of plugins without restarting the bot

BurgieBot cons

• No i18n, most strings are in Dutch
• No docs…
• Automatic reloading of plugins sometimes fails

Download it
Tarball, Zip

Dependencies

• Python 2.5 or higher
• SQLAlchemy 0.4.4 or higher
• twisted
• pyinotify (used for reloading modules on the fly)

How to run it
Create a settings.py file in the folder containing the burgiebot.py file containing:


channels = ['#demochannel',]
host = 'irc.demoserver.org'
port = 6667
nick = 'BurgieBot'
dsn = 'sqlite:///file.db' # Use an sqlite db
colors = True # Display messages in color


And run the bot using python burgiebot.py

You can browse the code here (yes, that’s a Django-based gitweb-like interface, which is WIP and unreleased ), or clone the git repository from http://realnitro.be/git/burgiebot.git/