kameloso 1.9.1

IRC bot


To use this package, run the following command in your project's root directory:

Manual usage
Put the following dependency into your project's dependences section:

kameloso Linux/macOS Linux/macOS Windows Commits since last release

kameloso idles in your channels and listens to commands and events, like bots generally do.

Current functionality includes:

  • bedazzling coloured terminal output like it's the 90s
  • automatic mode sets (e.g. auto +o on join)
  • logs
  • fetching and echoing titles of pasted URLs
  • sed-replacement of messages (s/this/that/ substitution)
  • saving notes to offline users that get played back when they come online
  • channel polls
  • works on Twitch with some common Twitch bot features
  • SSL support
  • more random stuff and gimmicks

All of the above are plugins and can be runtime-disabled or compiled out. It is modular and easily extensible. A skeletal Hello World plugin is 20 lines of code.

Testing is primarily done on freenode and on Twitch servers, so support and coverage is best there.

Please report bugs. Unreported bugs can only be fixed by accident.

tl;dr

-n       --nickname Nickname
-s         --server Server address [irc.freenode.net]
-P           --port Server port [6667]
-A        --account Services account name
-p       --password Services account password
           --admins Administrators' services accounts, comma-separated
-H   --homeChannels Home channels to operate in, comma-separated
-C  --guestChannels Non-home channels to idle in, comma-separated
-w           --save Write configuration to file

A dash (-) clears, so -C- translates to no channels, -A- to no account name, etc.
$ dub run kameloso -- --server irc.freenode.net --guestChannels "#d,#freenode"

# alternatively
$ git clone https://github.com/zorael/kameloso.git
$ cd kameloso
$ dub build
$ ./kameloso --server irc.freenode.net --guestChannels "#d,#freenode"

Table of contents

Getting started

Prerequisites

There are three D compilers available; see here for an overview. You need one based on D version 2.084 or later (January 2019).

kameloso can be built using the reference compiler dmd, which compiles very fast; and the LLVM-based ldc, which is slower but produces faster code. The stable release of the GCC-based gdc is currently based on version 2.076 and is thus too old to be used.

The package manager dub is used to facilitate compilation and dependency management. On Windows it comes bundled in the compiler archive, while on Linux it will need to be installed separately. Refer to your repositories.

Downloading

$ git clone https://github.com/zorael/kameloso.git
$ cd kameloso

Compiling

$ dub build

This will compile the bot in the default debug mode, which adds some extra code and debugging symbols. You can automatically skip these and add some optimisations by building it in release mode with dub build -b release. Mind that build times will increase. Refer to the output of dub build --help for more build types.

See the known issues section for compilation caveats.

Build configurations

There are several configurations in which the bot may be built.

  • application, base configuration
  • twitch, additionally includes Twitch chat support and the Twitch streamer plugin
  • dev, all-inclusive development build equalling everything available, including things like more detailed error messages

All configurations come in a -lowmem variant (e.g. application-lowmem, twitch-lowmem, ...} that lowers compilation memory at the cost of raising compilation times, but so far they only work with ldc. (bug #20699)

List configurations with dub build --print-configs. You can specify which to compile with the -c switch. Not supplying one will make it build the default application configuration.

$ dub build -c twitch

If you want to customise your own build to only compile the plugins you want to use, see the larger versions list in dub.sdl. Simply delete the lines that correspond to the plugin(s) you want to omit. Mind that disabling any of the plugins named Service may yield undefined behaviour.

How to use

Configuration

The bot needs the account name of one or more administrators of the bot, and/or one or more home channels to operate in. Without either it's just a read-only log bot, which is also fine. To define these accounts you can either specify them on the command line, or generate a configuration file and input them there.

$ ./kameloso --save

A new kameloso.conf will be created in a directory dependent on your platform.

  • Linux and other Posix: ~/.config/kameloso (alternatively where $XDG_CONFIG_HOME points)
  • macOS: $HOME/Library/Application Support/kameloso
  • Windows: %APPDATA%\kameloso

Open the file in a normal text editor. If you have your system file associations set up to open *.conf files in such, you can do so by passing --edit.

Command-line arguments

You can override some configured settings with arguments on the command line, listed by calling the program with --help. If you specify some and also add --save, it will apply these changes to the configuration file without having to manually edit it.

$ ./kameloso \
    --server irc.freenode.net \
    --nickname "kameloso" \
    --admins "you,friend,thatguy" \
    --homeChannels "#mychannel,#elsewhere" \
    --guestChannels "#d,##networking" \
    --save

Configuration file written to /home/user/.config/kameloso/kameloso.conf

Invocations of --save with an existing configuration file will regenerate it. It will never overwrite custom settings, only complement them with new ones. Mind however that it will delete any lines not corresponding to a currently available plugin, so any orphan sections belonging to plugins that are currently not built in will be silently removed.

Display settings

If you have bright terminal background, the colours may be hard to see and the text difficult to read. If so, pass the --bright argument, and/or modify the configuration file; brightTerminal under [Core]. The bot uses the full range of 8-colour ANSI, so if one or more colours are too dark or bright even with the right brightTerminal setting, please refer to your terminal appearance settings.

An alternative is to disable colours entirely with --monochrome.

Other files

More server-specific resource files will be created the first time you connect to a server. These include users.json, in which you whitelist which accounts get to access the bot's features. Where these are stored also depends on platform; in the case of macOS and Windows they will be put in server-split subdirectories of the same directory as the configuration file, listed above. On Linux and other Posix, under ~/.local/share/kameloso (or wherever $XDG_DATA_HOME points).

Example use

      you joined #channel
 kameloso sets mode +o you

      you | I am a fish
      you | s/fish/snek/
 kameloso | you | I am a snek

      you | !quote kameloso I am a snek
 kameloso | Quote saved. (1 on record)
      you | !quote kameloso
 kameloso | kameloso | I am a snek

      you | !seen MrOffline
 kameloso | I last saw MrOffline 1 hour and 34 minutes ago.

      you | !note MrOffline About the thing you mentioned, yeah no
 kameloso | Note added.
MrOffline joined #channel
 kameloso | MrOffline! you left note 28 minutes ago: About the thing you mentioned, yeah no

      you | !operator add bob
 kameloso | Added BOB as an operator in #channel.
      you | !whitelist add alice
 kameloso | Added Alice as a whitelisted user in #channel.
      you | !blacklist del steve
 kameloso | Removed steve as a blacklisted user in #channel.

      you | !automode add ray +o
 kameloso | Automode modified! ray on #channel: +o
      ray joined #channel
 kameloso sets mode +o ray

      you | !poll 60 snek snik
 kameloso | Voting commenced! Please place your vote for one of: snik, snek (60 seconds)
      BOB | snek
    Alice | snek
      ray | snik
 kameloso | Voting complete, results:
 kameloso | snek : 2 (66.6%)
 kameloso | snik : 1 (33.3%)

      you | https://github.com/zorael/kameloso
 kameloso | [github.com] GitHub - zorael/kameloso: IRC bot
      you | https://youtu.be/ykj3Kpm3O0g
 kameloso | [youtube.com] Uti Vår Hage - Kamelåså (HD) (uploaded by Prebstaroni)

<context: playing a video game>
      you | !counter add deaths
 kameloso | Counter deaths added! Access it with !deaths.
      you | !deaths+
 kameloso | deaths +1! Current count: 1
      you | !deaths+
 kameloso | deaths +1! Current count: 2
      you | !deaths
 kameloso | Current deaths count: 2
      you | !deaths=0
 kameloso | deaths count assigned to 0!

      you | !stopwatch start
 kameloso | Stopwatch started!
      you | !stopwatch
 kameloso | Elapsed time: 18 mins 42 secs
      you | !stopwatch stop
 kameloso | Stopwatch stopped after 48 minutes 10 secs.

Online help and commands

Use the !help command for a summary of available bot commands, and !help [plugin] [command] for a brief description of a specific one. The shorthand !help !command also works.

The prefix (here !) is configurable; refer to your generated configuration file. Common alternatives are . and ~, making it .note and ~quote respectively.

[Core]
prefix              "!"

It can technically be any string and not just one character. It may include spaces if enclosed within quotes, like "please " (making it please note, please quote, ...). Additionally, prefixing commands with the bot's nickname also works, as in kameloso: seen MrOffline. Some administrative commands only work when called this way.

Except nothing happens

Before allowing anyone to trigger any restricted functionality, it will query the server for what services account they are logged in with. For full administrative privileges you will need to be logged in with an account listed in the admins field in the configuration file, while other users may be defined in your users.json file. If a user is not logged onto services it is considered as not being uniquely identifiable, and as such will not be able to access features it might normally have enjoyed.

In the case of hostmasks mode, the above still applies but "accounts" are inferred from hostmasks. See the hostmasks.json file for how to map hostmasks to would-be accounts.

Twitch

To connect to Twitch servers you must first build a configuration that includes support for it, which is currently either twitch or dev.

You must also supply an OAuth token pass (not password). These authorisation tokens are unique to your user paired with an application. As such, you need a new one for each and every program you want to access Twitch with.

Run the bot with --set twitchbot.keygen to start the captive process of generating one. It will open a browser window, in which you are asked to log onto Twitch on Twitch's own servers. Verify this by checking the page address; it should end with twitch.tv, with the little lock symbol showing the connection is secure.

Note: At no point is the bot privy to your login credentials! The logging-in is wholly done on Twitch's own servers, and no information is sent to any third parties. The code that deals with this is open for audit; generateKey in twitchbot/api.d.

After entering your login and password and clicking Authorize, you will be redirected to an empty "this site can't be reached" page. Copy the URL address of it and paste it into the terminal, when asked. It will parse the address, extract your authorisation token, and offer to save it to your configuration file.

If you prefer to generate the token manually, here is the URL you need to follow. The only thing the generation process does is open it for you, and help with saving the end key to disk.

https://id.twitch.tv/oauth2/authorize?response_type=token&client_id=tjyryd2ojnqr8a51ml19kn1yi2n0v1&redirect_uri=http://localhost&scope=bits:read+channel:edit:commercial+channel:read:subscriptions+user:edit+user:edit:broadcast+channel_editor+user_blocks_edit+user_blocks_read+user_follows_edit+channel:moderate+chat:edit+chat:read+whispers:edit+whispers:read

Caveats

Most of the bot's features will work on Twitch. The Automode plugin is an exception (as modes are not really applicable on Twitch), and it will auto-disable itself appropriately.

That said, in many ways Twitch chat does not behave as a full IRC server. Most common IRC commands go unrecognised. Joins and parts are not always advertised, and when they are they come in delayed batches. You can also only join channels for which a corresponding Twitch user account exists.

Example configuration

[IRCClient]
nickname            botaccount
user                ignored
realName            likewise

[IRCBot]
#account
#password
pass                personaloauthauthorisationtoken
admins              mainaccount
homeChannels        #mainaccount,#botaccount
guestChannels       #streamer1,#streamer2,#streamer3

[IRCServer]
address             irc.chat.twitch.tv
port                6667

The Twitch SSL port is 443.

See the wiki page on Twitch for more information.

Streamer assistant bot

The streamer bot plugin is opt-in during compilation; build the twitch configuration to compile it. Even if built it can be disabled in the configuration file under the [TwitchBot] section. If the section doesn't exist, regenerate the file with --save.

$ dub build -c twitch
$ ./kameloso --set twitchbot.enabled=false --save

Assuming a prefix of !, commands to test are:

  • !enable, !disable
  • !start, !uptime, !stop
  • !phrase
  • !timer
  • !permit
  • !followage

...alongside !operator, !whitelist, !blacklist, !oneliner, !poll, !counter, !stopwatch, and other non-Twitch-specific commands.

Note: dot . and slash / prefixes will not work on Twitch, as they conflict with Twitch's own commands.

Please make the bot a moderator to prevent its messages from being as aggressively rate-limited.

Further help

For more information and help see the wiki, or file an issue.

Known issues

Compiling in a non-debug build mode might fail (bug #18026). Try --build-mode=singleFile, which compiles one file at a time and as such lowers memory requirements, but drastically increases build times.

Windows

On Windows with dmd 2.089 and above builds may fail, either silently with no output, or with an OutOfMemoryError being thrown. See issue #83. The workarounds are to either use the ldc compiler with --compiler=ldc2, or to build with the --build-mode=singleFile flag.

While ldc is slower to compile than the default dmd, it's not singleFile-level slow. In addition it also produces faster binaries, so if you hit this bug ldc might be the better alternative, over singleFile.

If SSL flat doesn't work at all, you may simply be missing the necessary libraries. Download and install OpenSSL from here, and opt to install to system directories when asked.

Even with SSL working, you may see errors of "Peer certificates cannot be authenticated with given CA certificates". If this happens, download this cacert.pem file, place it somewhere reasonable, and edit your configuration file to point to it; caBundleFile under [Connection].

Cygwin/mintty terminals may work erratically. There may be garbage "[39m" characters randomly at the beginning of lines, lines may arbitrarily break at certain lengths, text effects may spiral out of control, and more general wonkiness. It's really unreliable, and unsure how to solve it. The current workaround is to just use the plain cmd.exe, the Powershell console or a Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) terminal instead.

macOS/Linux/Other Posix

If the Pipeline plugin's FIFO file is removed while the program is running, it will hang upon exiting, requiring manual interruption with Ctrl+C. This is a tricky problem to solve as it requires figuring out how to do non-blocking reads. Help wanted.

Roadmap

  • pipedream zero: no compiler segfaults (#18026, #20562)
  • pipedream: DCC
  • non-blocking FIFO
  • more pairs of eyes

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License

This project is licensed under the MIT license - see the LICENSE file for details.

Acknowledgements

Authors:
  • JR
Dependencies:
dialect, arsd-official:dom, lu
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