Arcbot is an extensible chatbot written entirely in Python, inspired by Err and Hubot projects. The goal of Arcbot is to provide a simple to extend bot that can be used with many different chat services like Slack, Hipchat, Discord, IRC, Campire, etc.

Arcbot is open source software and released under the GPL v3 license. See LICENSE.txt for more info.

This is Euklyd's custom bot to do more or less whatever he wants.

Everything about Arcbot is self contained, meaning that the entire bot is shipped and you run it from there.

1. Clone this repo
2. Fill out the conf/settings.conf file with your config settings
3. You must install the packages found in REQUIREMENTS.txt. Try doing pip -r REQUIREMENTS.txt
4. Run the entry point bot.py with Python 3
5. You're good to go!

Connectors are what allow Arcbot to talk to the chat server. Every connector is subclassed from core/connector.py, which is the interface that the bot uses for the connector.

Since each chat provider has a different API, the internals of the connector will likely vary greatly; but must implement the abstract methods found in core/connector.py in order to function with the bot.

Currently, Arcbot only supports the discord.py library connector (for Discord, obviously). Slack support may be implemented in the future.

Using the power of Python, Arcbot gets all of it's functionality from plugins. The plugin system takes care of all the annoying code behind the scenes, so the code in for plugin is minimal. A sample plugin can be found at plugins/Sample.py, a plugin can be either a single python file or a folder with many files (in this case the main class should be in init.py file).

Arcbot also ships with a few plugins to get you started.

Access control lists are a way to enforce security policies for users of the bot. You may not want everyone in the channel to be able to disable plugins, or have the bot start Jenkins builds, so this is a way to assign user access and restrict what commands they can use.

Arcbot formerly used a threadpool, but since switching to the discord.py library this has been phased out in favor of asyncio design.

I'm actively extending and/or rebuilding PenguinBot all the time. Additional commands and modules are developed both as I think of fun things, and as I get requests.

Credit must be given to the developers behind Hubot and Err projects; a lot of this bot was inspired by those projects. Arcbot itself was developed by ns-phennessy, and you can find the original build on the Arcbot github page.