Would anybody here be interested in working on a project with me to build an IRC bot for people who play the game America's Army?
http://www.americasarmy.com I'd like to build a bot to sit on the #americasarmy channel on irc.homelan.com and provide the following services: - return the status of a given player - return the "honor" of a given player - return the current server of a given active player If possible, I would also like to to server as an AA knowlege base, much like purl does on #perl. (Or it used to, I haven't been on #perl in years.) I built a similar tool years ago when I did more frequent Perl hacking. Back then I used purl as my building block and built up from there. My bot was named "tux" and he served as a toy and an interactive FAQ for the group I was working with. (We did tech support and before searching the knowlege base we would sometimes ask "tux" questions and occasionally get good answers.) There are serveral websites that publish the information needed for the player queries. What I plan to do is use LWP to grab the data and tie it all together with a good bot tool. So far I'm using Bot::BasicBot and I've got it to connect to the IRC server, join the test channel, and to acknolwledge communications. http://search.cpan.org/src/HITHERTO/Bot-BasicBot-0.02/ I've also started fooling around with Perlbot. It seems a bit more powerful than Bot::BasicBot. http://sourceforge.net/projects/perlbot/ Well, if you're interested, give me a shout. -- Shawn Porter http://rit.net/sporter [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For information on unsubscribing from this list, please visit http://rochester.pm.org