KwBot

KwBot is my IRC bot. It was originally registered on 2010-01-12 on Freenode, but it has left the network following the events in May 2021, and is now exclusively on Libera.Chat.

It is currently in its third iteration. The current iteration is a very basic bot, written in Twisted.

It lives on Libera.Chat. You can /invite it to your channel temporarily, or contact me to get it permanently. Demo in #kwbot on Libera.

KwBot can act as a GitHub bot, currently working in co-operation with the official GitHub IRC bot (KwBot handles issues — missing from the GitHub bot and very useful)

The channels are logged; see logs from #nikola (Libera, previously Freenode) generated by KwBot.

Commands must be prepended with !, KwBot: or KwBot, — as demonstrated below.

<ChrisWarrick> !ping
<KwBot> ChrisWarrick: pong
<ChrisWarrick> KwBot: ping
<KwBot> ChrisWarrick: pong
<ChrisWarrick> KwBot, ping
<KwBot> ChrisWarrick: pong

  • ping — respond with pong

  • hi — respond with Hi!

  • hello — respond with Hello!

  • help — respond with a message linking to this page

  • logs — respond with the URL to KwBot’s logs for this channel on the Internet (if available)

  • tell target message — add the message to a queue and show it when target joins the channel next time

  • factoids — list factoids for this channel (messages that can be used for eg. common links or information)