Lessons from Supybot

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From personal usage

• config supybot.reply.whenNotCommand False to ignore wrong commands
• for plugins like Poll which are not part of the distribution, check https://github.com/stepnem/supybot-plugins/
  • note that those seem not to be actively maintained anymore
• problem with "..." interpreted as command
  • can change prefix or ignore commands done in a channel, but not satisfying
  • disable "unknown command"
• channel ignore add #wikis *!*@* : ignore message from users in this channel
  • note that it does not ignore commands from an identified admin
  • also note that the syntax from http://ubottu.com/stdin/supydocs/plugins/Channel.html might differ
    • e.g. channel ignore add... instead of just channel ignore...
• identify <name> <password> : identify to the bot
• load plugin : load a specified plugin
• list plugin : list the available command of a plugin
• help plugin command : description of how a command should be used
• more : continue to print the current buffer
• config plugins.plugin.option value : set the value of a variable of a plugin

From discussion in #supybot

• config list plugin : list the variables of a plugin
• config help plugins.plugin.option : description of what a configuration variable does

Potential work

Wiki(s) through IRC

• usage
  • hivemind-sb wikisearch PIM term1 term2
    • URL1 URL2 URL3
  • PIM and other wikis imported from OwnWikisNetwork (PmWiki implied, easier for search compatibility)
• PmWiki with PHP commandline usage at PHP.net
• PHP-CLI.com running PHP Scripts that aren't on a web server
  • if there is no /usr/bin/php on Debian apply apt-get install php5-cli
  • see also Shell#Debian
• testing with wikinumberoffiles

See also

• http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki?action=search&q=supybot
• http://bitbucket.org/aafshar/supybot-external-control/src/
• Writing a Supybot Plugin, packetcloud.net April 2010
• My first Supybot plugin Thinkhole Labs 2006
• Writing supybot plugins not in python? Stack Overflow 2009
• plugin-author-tutorial 2008 archived version
  • done (worked but test ignored)
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/89228/how-to-call-external-command-in-python
• http://supybot-fr.tk

Improvement

• chatbot/NLP for queries
  • http://wiki.opencog.org/w/RelEx
  • http://www.aitools.org/Program_D

KB access

• http://DBpedia.org/sparql?
  • swig-2009-06-09 supybot-plugins/plugins/DBpedia/plugin.py

Animation plugin

Goal is to motivate discussion by randomly picking a topic from a base off topic when nobody has talked for a while.

(crontab or better, check the RSS plugin as it periodically do checks)

#get the time of the last activity in the channel
tail path/channellogfile | grep -v "-!-" | sed -e "s/ <.*//" > time

if (now()-time) < 10min
	# not need to check for flood as msg would appear in the logs anyway
	random quote

Finding keys sources within pool of related interest

• e.g. IRC freenode channels ##ai ##agi ##machinelearning #ai-class #ml-class
• Spear reference implementation in Python

From Supybook

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My notes on Tools gather what I know or want to know. Consequently they are not and will never be complete references. For this, official manuals and online communities provide much better answers.

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