A "modular" IRC bot hacked together in Python. It has acreted over the years, and now offers a wide variety of plugins. This is the bot's only redeeming quality.

1. Run pyBot.py. It will prompt for first-time setup information.

• If you're configuring the bot, you're the owner.
  • The owner can potentially receive debug messages from plugins, but is otherwise not important.
  • There's no mechanism to change the owner, but it's trivial.

2. Configure privileges and default plugins through the IRC interface.

• ONLY the owner configured in Step 1 can do this!
• Use !elevate to grant privileges to other users.
  • You must !load this command as well before you can use it.

3. Configure commands

• Use !load to install a command by its name.
• Use !alias to provide convenience calls for given parameters.
  • You must !load alias.
• Some plugins require daemons. For instance, !later requires laterd.
• Use !autoload to make a command load by default.
  • Yes, you must !load autoload before you can use it.
  • Yes, you may then !autoload autoload.
• Use !set to make an alias persist between runs.
  • Guess what you must first do in order to use !set.

4. When in doubt, try !pluginfo, then bother sirxemic. If he's dead, you can try JoshDreamland.

• No one is qualified to maintain this bot.