[Mod] Internet Relay Chat [irc]

[kaeza]

Internet Relay Chat Mod

This mod provides a two-way communication between the in-game chat, and an arbitrary IRC channel.
This is done by connecting a bot to the channel, that acts as a "proxy" for messages.

The code of the actual mod is released under the BSD 2 Clause License (see LICENSE.txt).
Licenses for modules/libraries used are on their respective LICENSE files.

Dependencies: default

Check out our official IRC channel ##mt-irc-mod on Freenode!

Note: Should work fine under *nix, but for Windows it needs some special setup.

Important Note: If you intend to run this on a server where non-ASCII characters may be used (e.g. non-english-speaking servers), be sure your environment's language encoding is set to UTF-8. Otherwise, you may see errors about "character conversion failed" or "invalid wstring". Thanks to fireglow for helping sort this out.

By the way, if you want to see a demo of this mod, join #minetest at irc.inchra.net.

Please read the SETTINGS section in the README file for info about how to configure.

Downloads

• Source code (zip)
• browse the code on Github.

Add-ons:

• irc_commands by ShadowNinja - Enables running chat commands via IRC.

Thanks for taking your time to read this :)

I'd like to thank the users who allowed to test this in #minetest, and all of those who suggested improvements, and helped me by providing tips (in no particular order):

0gb.us, Shadow/ShadowNinja, Shaun/kizeren, RAPHAEL, DARGON, Calinou, Exio, vortexlabs/mrtux, marveidemanis, marktraceur, jmf/john_minetest, sdzen/Muadtralk, VanessaE, PilzAdam, sfan5, celeron55, KikaRz, OldCoder, RealBadAngel, and all the people who commented in here. Thanks to you all!

(If I forgot to mention someone, I apologize in advance. Please catch me on #minetest and notice me.)

[PilzAdam]

I give you my 1000th post!
Congrantulation!
This mod is awesome!

[kaeza]

Very much appreciated, noble sir!

[tonyka]

100% agree with Adam, great job

[Mito551]

cool. is it lua?

[kaeza]

100% agree with Adam, great job

gracias tonyka!

cool. is it lua?

Thanks Mito551.

It's part in Lua and part in C.
The low-level sockets interface is in C.
The IRC encapsulation, and the mod itself are in Lua.

I will provide a link to source soon.

[jordan4ibanez]

Oh wow, super nice

[rubenwardy]

Amazing!

[sfan5]

This Mo is purely awesome

[Mito551]

it's amazing! we'll see how well it goes :D

[InfinityProject]

Will there be support for Windows in the future?

[kaeza]

Will there be support for Windows in the future?

Whenever someone with a Windows environment can compile it.

Added link to GitHub (see first post)

[Josh]

Cool :) is this used to talk to people on IRC while playing?

[kaeza]

Cool :) is this used to talk to people on IRC while playing?

Yeah. Both to talk to IRC from within game and to read from IRC channel too.

[Josh]

Cool :) is this used to talk to people on IRC while playing?

Yeah. Both to talk to IRC from within game and to read from IRC channel too.

Cool!

[yohoho]

This may seem a little noobish but how to use this mod? I downloaded the master zip from github and I see no "irc" directory to copy over. Do I extract the master zip file and rename that folder irc and copy it? Or must this be compiled somehow first? The "outdated" link looks a lot different than the github master zip.

[sfan5]

This may seem a little noobish but how to use this mod? I downloaded the master zip from github and I see no "irc" directory to copy over. Do I extract the master zip file and rename that folder irc and copy it? Or must this be compiled somehow first? The "outdated" link looks a lot different than the github master zip.

Do you have Windows?

[Ragnar]

OMFG!!!
With this PilzAdam can help me with bugs while im playing :D

[GJH105775]

Great, I am a 12.04 user in ubuntu.

[kaeza]

This may seem a little noobish but how to use this mod? I downloaded the master zip from github and I see no "irc" directory to copy over. Do I extract the master zip file and rename that folder irc and copy it? Or must this be compiled somehow first? The "outdated" link looks a lot different than the github master zip.

Well, first things first. The "outdated" link is a precompiled version I used for testing, and it came in a ready to use mod directory. The github "master.zip" contains the source code which you need to compile. I updated both the Linux package and committed some changes to github (see first post).
Windows users will have to compile and test themselves or wait until someone posts a precompiled version, sorry.

Great, I am a 12.04 user in ubuntu.

Just download the updated Linux version then :)

EDIT: 100TH POST!!!!1!!!one!!!eleven!!!!

[yohoho]

"Do you have Windows?" No on Linux Mint 13.

"0.1.1 - Linux <-- Latest" 404ed

Still don't know how to "prepare" the github master zip to get it working (not overly familiar with compiling of source code without some instructions).

May I suggest adding to github a file on what is needed to compile the mod?

[kaeza]

"0.1.1 - Linux <-- Latest" 404ed

Sorry, was a typo. It's fixed now.

Still don't know how to "prepare" the github master zip to get it working (not overly familiar with compiling of source code without some instructions).

Catch me in IRC if you can, and I may be able to help you. Thanks.

[MirceaKitsune]

Very nice mod! I completely approve :D

[fgr]

no real instruction included ... i compiled it, made the irc folder with the package.sh and placed it into the minetest mod folder, edited my irc server settings and channel, but no more instructions are available. Restartet the server and nothing happened.

after placed some ambigious command like /irc the server crashed.

Your phone or window isn't wide enough to display the code box. If it's a phone, try rotating it to landscape mode.

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ERROR[main]: ERROR: An unhandled exception occurred: ServerError: LuaError: error: ../mods/irc/init.lua:107: attempt to index global 'player' (a nil value)
ERROR[main]: stack traceback:

In thread 7f1b23cec740:
/build/buildd/minetestc55-0.4.3/src/main.cpp:1741: int main(int, char**): Assertion '0' failed.
Debug stacks:
DEBUG STACK FOR THREAD 7f1b23cec740:
#0  int main(int, char**)


how about servers and password? If the server reuquests userpassword, does this mod then currently work? I mean MT server password

[guilleelcapoextra]

but only good for the Linux version tanvien ubuntu or windows used for community

[kaeza]

no real instruction included ... i compiled it, made the irc folder with the package.sh and placed it into the minetest mod folder, edited my irc server settings and channel, but no more instructions are available. Restartet the server and nothing happened.

after placed some ambigious command like /irc the server crashed.

Your phone or window isn't wide enough to display the code box. If it's a phone, try rotating it to landscape mode.

Code: Select all

ERROR[main]: ERROR: An unhandled exception occurred: ServerError: LuaError: error: ../mods/irc/init.lua:107: attempt to index global 'player' (a nil value)
ERROR[main]: stack traceback:

In thread 7f1b23cec740:
/build/buildd/minetestc55-0.4.3/src/main.cpp:1741: int main(int, char**): Assertion '0' failed.
Debug stacks:
DEBUG STACK FOR THREAD 7f1b23cec740:
#0  int main(int, char**)


Fixed. Thanks for reporting.

but only good for the Linux version tanvien ubuntu or windows used for community

Let me clean this up for you. Maybe this is what you meant to say:

It's for Linux only. There are Ubuntu and Windows users in the community too.

First of all, Ubuntu IS a DISTRIBUTION of Linux. And maybe you didn't take the time to read the first post, but until someone can compile it on Windows, and post a link to a precompiled package, you'll have to compile it manually. Sorry.

[leo_rockway]

Great mod, 1K internets for you, my friend.

[kaeza]

Great mod, 1K internets for you, my friend.

Thanks! I will try to make it even better, and maybe someday this will get into master.

[RAPHAEL]

I am curious why this mod has FTP and HTTP related lua? How is it useful? I would suggest releasing a "trimmed down to barebones" mod of this. A simple mod that allows the sending/receiving of messages to/from an IRC channel. No special "features". (sorry but I'm a paranoid type)

[guilleelcapoextra]

nice