IRC Chat Bot Made Using the Pircbot Java Framework
- Download code
- Install Gradle if not installed
- From command line:
- navigate to directory with the gradlew file (this is the Gradle wrapper)
- Run ./gradlew build (this will build/compile the code)
- Run ./gradlew run (this will start the bot)
- Download an IRC client
- I used mIRC, which gives you a free 30 day trial
- Within the PU_BotMain.java file:
- Change line 15 (bot.connect) to your desired IRC server
- change line 24 (bot.joinChannel) to your desired channel
- You can change the bot's nickname at line 44 of PU_Bot.java
- Rebuild and rerun the code if you make any changes
- From the IRC client, join the channel that you set your bot to join to use/test it
- |help -- Displays help message
- |time -- Displays current time
- |translate [desired language]: [string] -- Translates string into designated desired language
- |detect [string] -- Detects the language of the input string
- |wiki: [topic] -- Gives a summary of the topic from Wikipedia, along with a link to the full article
- |news -- Lists the current top 5 news story headlines along with links to full articles from Reuter's website
