mobibot

The #mobitopia bot

The latest version of mobibot is always available via CVS.

About mobibot

mobibot is the #mobitopia IRC channel bot. It is built on Paul Mutton's PircBot Java-based Framework.

mobibot is making extensive use of various open source libraries, including:

• Commons CLI
• Commons HTTPClient
• Commons Logging
• Commons Net
• delicious-java
• JWeather
• exp4j
• OstermillerUtils
• Rome
• Twitter4J

mobibot was written by Erik C. Thauvin as a replacement for the channel's original ChumpBot.

Features

mobibot's main functionality is to capture URLs posted on the channel. The URLs are automatically gathered into a publishable RSS feed.

Other features include:

• Performing calculations
• Converting between currencies
• Rolling dice
• Performing Google searches
• Displaying the latest entries on Mobitopia
• Performing DNS lookups
• Recapping public channel messages
• Retrieving stock quotes
• Displaying the time in various time zones
• Listing the users on the channel
• Displaying weather information
• Posting to Twitter

Some of the internal features include RSS feed backlogs, rolling logs, debugging toggle and much more.

If you have any feature suggestions, please post them to the mobibot wiki.

Using mobibot

To use mobibot, simply join #mobitopia on irc.freenode.net and type:

mobibot: help

mobibot will reply with a listing of the commands currently supported.

Licenses

There are various open source licenses attached to mobibot. Please refer to the licenses directory in the CVS tree for more details.