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 HTTPClient
• Commons Logging
• Commons Net
• fetchrss
• Google Tag Library
• JWeather
• MathEvaluator
• RSSLibJ

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
• Performing Google spelling queries
• Retrieving stock quotes
• Displaying the time in various time zones
• Listing the users on the channel
• Displaying weather information

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

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.