Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: pmxbot
Version: 1101.7.4
Summary: IRC bot - full featured, yet extensible and customizable
Home-page: http://bitbucket.org/yougov/pmxbot
Author: Jason R. Coombs
Author-email: Jason.Coombs@YouGov.com
License: MIT
Description: ======
        pmxbot
        ======
        
        pmxbot is an IRC bot written in python. Originally built for internal use,
        it's been sanitized and set free upon the world. You can find out  more details
        on the website, http://bitbucket.org/yougov/pmxbot, and especially the wiki
        https://bitbucket.org/yougov/pmxbot/wiki/Home
        
        
        Commands
        ========
        pmxbot listens to commands prefixed by a '!'
        If it's a command it knows it will reply, take an action, etc.
        It can search the web, quote you, track karma, make decisions,
        and do just about anything else you could want. It stores logs and quotes
        and karma in a sqlite or MongoDB
        database, and there's a web interface for reviewing the logs and karma.
        
        Contains
        ========
        pmxbot will respond to things you say if it detects words and phrases it's
        been told to recognize. For example, mention sql on rails.
        
        Requirements
        ============
        
        `pmxbot` requires Python 2.6 or 2.7. It also requires a few python
        packages as defined in setup.py.
        
        If using the MongoDB backend, it requires pymongo (otherwise, sqlite will
        be used).
        
        Testing
        =======
        
        `pmxbot` includes a basic nose test suite that does some functional tests
        with an
        included TCL IRC daemon, and some basic unit tests as well. Just run them
        from
        the pmxbot root directory with "nosetests" (requires nose) or "py.test"
        (requires pytest) and it should do it all for you.
        
        You'll need TCL for the functional tests not to be skipped.
        
        Configuration
        =============
        Configuration is based on very easy YAML files. Check out config.yaml in the
        source tree for an example.
        
        Usage
        =====
        Once you've setup a config file, you just need to call ``pmxbot config.yaml``
        and it will join and connect. We recommend running pmxbot under
        daemontools, upstart, supervisord, or your favorite supervisor to make it
        automatically restart if it crashes (or terminates due to a planned
        restart).
        
        
        Custom Features
        ===============
        
        Setuptools Entry Points Plugin
        ------------------------------
        
        To create a setuptools (or distribute or compatible packaging tool)
        entry point plugin, package your modules using
        the setuptools tradition and install it alongside pmxbot. Your package
        should define an entry point in the group `pmxbot_handlers` by including
        something similar to the following in the package's setup.py::
        
            entry_points = {
                'pmxbot_handlers': [
                    'plugin name = mylib.mymodule',
                ],
            },
        
        During startup (and after loading the traditional script-based plugins),
        pmxbot will load `mylib.mymodule`. `plugin name` can be anything, but should
        be a name suitable to identify the plugin (and it will be displayed during
        pmxbot startup).
        
        If your plugin requires any initialization, specify an initialization function
        (or class method) in the entry point. For example::
        
            'plugin name = mylib.mymodule:initialize_func'
        
        On startup, pmxbot will call `initialize_func` with no parameters.
        
        Within the script you'll want to import the decorates you need to use with:
        `from pmxbot.botbase import command, contains, execdelay, execat`. You'll then
        decorate each function with the appropriate line so pmxbot registers it.
        
        A command (!g) gets the @command decorator::
        
          @command("tinytear", aliases=('tt', 'tear', 'cry'), doc="I cry a tiny tear for you.")
          def tinytear(client, event, channel, nick, rest):
          	if rest:
          		return "/me sheds a single tear for %s" % rest
          	else:
          		return "/me sits and cries as a single tear slowly trickles down its cheek"
        
        A response (when someone says something) uses the @contains decorator::
        
          @contains("sqlonrails")
          def yay_sor(client, event, channel, nick, rest):
          	karmaChange(botbase.logger.db, 'sql on rails', 1)
          	return "Only 76,417 lines..."
        
        For an example of how to implement a setuptools-based plugin, see
        the `wolframalpha plugin
        <http://bitbucket.org/yougov/pmxbot-wolframalpha>`_.
        
        Web Interface
        =============
        pmxbot includes a web server for allowing users to view the logs, read the
        help, and check karma. You specify the host, port, base path, logo, title,
        etc with the same YAML config file. Just run like ``pmxbotweb config.yaml``
        and it will start up. Like pmxbot, use of a supervisor is recommended to
        restart the process following termination.
        
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Operating System :: POSIX
Classifier: Operating System :: Microsoft :: Windows
Classifier: Operating System :: MacOS :: MacOS X
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7
Classifier: Topic :: Communications :: Chat :: Internet Relay Chat
Classifier: Topic :: Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: WSGI :: Application
