Steampunk IRC is a simple web-based IRC client with Twitter integration. A user's browser connects to a server which maintains a persistent connection to an IRC server (similar to bouncers like ZNC) and relays messages between the browser and the IRC server. Users can easily see messages they missed while they were offline.
The name Steampunk was chosen because my colleague Pascal Finette once jokingly referred to IRC as steampunk, which I found both humorous and apt.
This project is highly experimental and the UI is quite preliminary.
Only node is required to run the app. If you want to run the test suite
from the command-line via npm test, you'll also need phantomjs.
git clone git://github.com/toolness/steampunk.git
cd steampunk
npm install
npm test
cp config.sample.json storage-data/config.json
Edit config.json to taste. Note that the audience parameter should be
set to the origin of your web server; this will be used for Persona
login, though you can also ignore this field if you only want to authenticate
using username/password authentication.
Now run:
node app.js
Navigate to localhost:3000/test to run the browser-side test suite. Then go to localhost:3000.
Type / to see a list of all available commands.
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/login username password - Logs you into the server with the given username and password, which should be listed in
config.json. Your credentials are stored persistently in your browser; if you want to purge them, use /logout. -
/join #channel - Joins you to #channel.
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/twittername nick twittername - Associates the IRC user nick with the Twitter user twittername. This association is global for all users of the Steampunk server you're connected to.
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#channel message - Broadcasts a message to #channel. You can abbreviate the channel name and the client will automatically send your message to the closest unique channel that you're joined to.
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@username message - Sends a private message to username.
(The MIT License)
Copyright (c) 2012 Atul Varma <atul@mozilla.com>
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