netcat stuff to IRC.
IRCcat3 does one thing:
- Listen on a specific ip:port and write incoming data to an IRC channel. This is useful for sending various announcements and log messages to irc.
IRCCat3 was inspired by irccat (https://github.com/RJ/irccat). IRCcat removes features I don't care about and requires fewer resources. Also, I just don't have good luck with Java applications running in OpenVZ with venet networking, common to many VPSs.
BTW, googling for irccat2 turned up a python example that isn't really like irccat.
Install (pip install irccat3), then run with the following options:
usage: irccat3 [-h] [--verbosity VERBOSITY] [--irc-server IRC_SERVER]
[--irc-port IRC_PORT] [--irc-channel IRC_CHANNEL]
[--listen-interface LISTEN_INTERFACE]
[--listen-port LISTEN_PORT]
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--verbosity VERBOSITY
increase output verbosity
--irc-server IRC_SERVER
IRC server to connect to.
--irc-port IRC_PORT Port for irc server
--irc-channel IRC_CHANNEL
IRC channel to publish to
--listen-interface LISTEN_INTERFACE
network interface to listen on. Defaults to all of
them.
--listen-port LISTEN_PORT
Port to listen on (default 12345)
Once it is running connected to the IRC server, send messages to IRC by:
echo "Something just happened" | nc -q0 somemachine 12345