Free infobot software for linux

Ofnibot is a reincarnation of Kevin Lenzos Infobot in minimalist form. Kevin Lenzos Infobot program (http://www.infobot.org/) is an awesome IRC bot that is used on many IRC channels around the world.

Unfortunately, Infobot has become somewhat large in its old age. Since I maintain a number of IRC channels that require an information bot, my goal was to create an Infobot-compatible bot from the ground up. This bot is fast, secure, and modern.

The core function of the Infobot is to store a knowledge base of "factoids" or facts about things. The knowledge base can then be accessed and updated using common English phrases.

Ofnibot (Ofni = Info spelled backwards) is meant to provide that same core functionality without the bloat of the Infobot code. Ofnibot uses the modern POE::Component::IRC module to interface with IRC and, more importantly, it uses commands and files that are fully compatible with the original Infobot. The entire program comes in at just over 300 lines of Perl.

Because Ofnibot was programmed from the ground up and does not use any of the Infobot code, I cannot guarantee it behaves exactly the same when responding to users. It does, however, provide an exact subset of Infobot commands and can use the exact same database files as the Infobot. It can easily work as a drop-in replacement.

e-Bot is an IRC bot written in Perl. Its main functioning is based on the Socket.pm Perl module, which makes possible its use on most servers that support Perl.

This software will require Perl 5.

You should be able to start up just by running infobot. If you are using macperl, you will
(currently) have to make one minor change (because $^O didnt work for me under os8).

The infobot uses parameter files, typically in the params directory, to set up with. It treats anything on the command line as a parameter file and tries to load it.

If you are using macperl, you will want to set the value of the macperl parameter to 1 in the
two given param files (in the files dir).

By default, the infobot uses the IRC setup. This may change. NOTE that the irc version has no output by default; youll have to turn up the debug level to get more.

to start up the infobot, just invoke it from the command line.

rbot is a ruby IRC bot. Think of him as a ruby bot framework with a highly modular design based around plugins. It is somekind of a infobot. See more RbotFeatures, or perhaps an ExampleSession.
Main features:
- Runtime configuration via irc chat
- User authentication and access levels for using different bot features
- Built in infobot-style keywords. See example session below.
- Support for underlying fact database (infobot fact files), which can be overridden or supplemented by runtime keyword controls
- Multi-language support - comes with english, dutch and german definitions so far - more translations welcome
- Powerful plugin architecture, comes with plugins for:
- DNS queries
- Babelfish translation
- Google searching
- Excuse generation
- Insult generation
- Karma
- Checking the weather
- Querying slashdot
- Doing Math
- Per-channel quote storage, searching and retrieval
- Reminders
- rot13 translation
- Check the spelling of a word
- Webserver Server: header examination
- RPG dice rolling
- larting people
- conversation stats
- more...
Enhancements:
- Many new and updated plugins, including one to poll RSS feeds.
- A first step towards a better auth system (total revamp due in 0.9.11).
- Improvements to network and server code, which should provide greater stability.
- A new message queueing mechanism with bit rate throttling.
- A new logging framework for debugging and tracing the activities of the bot.
- A new split-db registry system for better performance and transactional usage of bdb for resilience.
- More integration with Nickserv where available, including optional automatic ghost-killing.

napMan is an infobot that provides you with a real time glimpse into the current state of the worldwide network of nap servers that are based on either the closed source napster protocol or the open source opennap protocol.
napMan is written in perl using the GTK-perl module and the GTK+ GUI toolkit. The list of servers is grokked from the excellent php3 script at napigator. napMan is copylefted under a GPL license.
Main features:
- display a list of all the nap servers.
- display current statistics for each server (users, number of mp3 files, gigabytes).
- ability to ping individual servers and check the network lag time.
- facility to save the list of servers and statistics to a file.
- refresh statistics for individual servers or all the servers.