NAME

Whatbot - an extensible, sane chat bot for pluggable chat applications

DESCRIPTION

This bot was written purely as an exercise in futility, to try, desperately, to replace the functionality of infobot without driving us insane. Part of that goal has been accomplished, and so we leave it out there for the world to use.

Installing the 'Whatbot' module from CPAN will provide you with a decent set of features, but you may actually want Task::whatbot to provide all of the plugins available from whatbot.org.

This is the primary entry point for the whatbot application, and is called through the whatbot shell script.

INSTALLATION

Once Whatbot is installed, a configuration file must be added to configure the services to connect to, as well as plugin-specific settings. The distribution provides whatbot.conf-example to copy and alter to support an IRC connection and a SQLite database. Additional configuration may be required for other optional plugins. You may place whatbot.conf in /etc/whatbot, or provide the path to the config file using the -c flag when executing whatbot.

To start, execute the 'whatbot' binary.

LINKS

Home page: http://www.whatbot.org/

GitHub: http://github.com/nmelnick/whatbot

LICENSE/COPYRIGHT

Be excellent to each other and party on, dudes.