mobibot

The #mobitopia bot

The latest version of mobibot is always available via GitHub.

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
• jsoup

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:

• Displaying the latest entries on Mobitopia
• Performing calculations
  mobibot: calc (floor(sqrt(3)) + 3.14) * 3^2
• Converting between currencies
  mobibot: currency 17.54 USD to EUR
• Performing Google searches
  mobibot: google mobitopia on irc
• Displaying weather information
  mobibot: weather KSFO
• Performing DNS lookups
  mobibot: lookup www.apple.com
• Retrieving stock quotes
  mobibot: stock GOOG
• Displaying the time in various time zones
  mobibot: time UK
• Sending messages to people on join/activity:
  mobibot: tell nickname Give me a call when you see this.
• Recapping public channel messages
• Listing the users on the channel
• Random jokes from The Internet Chuck Norris Database
• Rolling dice and playing war
• 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 source tree for more details.