Yeah, I know, I promised that it would release only when reached the version 1.0, but a lot of people sent me mail about the bot, and I had a lot of visits on the project page from people searching for an IRC translation bot.

And you can get it now here! Download!!! Read the README file to know how to put transbot working. And after transbot join the channel that you want it to work, type !help to get a list of supported commands of the bot.

Remember: it's open source and still on development, i.e., there are a lot of things to do on it yet. Enjoy!

transbot-0.3.tar.bz2

Hey guys, I'm here again, now with some code on how I do to connect to some IRC server using Python, on the Translation Bot (trully I found another bot with the same name, but I'll not change it ;p ):

import sys
import socket

With it, we can define some constants:

NETWORK = 'some.irc.server' # server to connect
PORT = 6667
NICK = 'transbot' # the nick used for the bot
PASSWORD = 'bot_password' # used if you register the bot nick
IDENT = 'transbot'
REALNAME = ':MDK\'s Translation Bot'
OWNER = 'xMDKx' # yeah, it's me on anonnet and on freenode
CHANNEL = '#some_channel' # the initial channel to join

Cool! Right now we can connect to IRC simply doing:

irc = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
irc.connect((NETWORK, PORT))

And now, just to enter on some channel (and identify):

send('NICK %s' % NICK)
send('USER %s %s %s %s' % (IDENT, NICK, NICK, REALNAME))
send('NICKSERV IDENTIFY %s ' % PASSWORD)
send('JOIN %s' % CHANNEL)

Now your bot is connected to the NETWOR (server) and joined on the CHANNEL that you specify.

For just grab the messages on the channel, do it:

while True:
 data = irc.recv(SOME_SIZE) # with size like 512 bytes, for ex.

 print data # just print server messages

And it's all for today, folks! Soon I'll post some tips on how to parse the messages grabbed from the channel. See ya!

Yeah, more one new poject, now using Python Programming Language. The main goal of this project is: create a translation IRC bot, that translates some English text (or the text of some user that are on the same channel).

And for it I used this Google Translate interface (to effectively translate some text to some language, that uses the Google Translate service) and the BeautifulSoup class, that parses XML or HTML (thank you guys!). As I never had made an IRC bot before, I get on the internet some base for do it; you can see them here and here.

I had the idea to made it in a funny chat on #embassyofpiracy, on irc.anonnet.org. The original idea was: A bot that can translate the last (or the N latest) message(s) from some user on the channel. There are a lot of people from all around the world, but the main language used on the channel is English. And as we want to have more and more people on the channel, some guys doesn't understand English very well.. So..."what about a translation bot"?

And here we are. The transbot is already on version 0.1, with these functions (the character ! with some text means that it is a command):

• !help: a basic help with all supported commands;
• !listsupported: list all supported languages;
• !whatis LANG_CODE: returns the language associated with the language code LANG_CODE;
• !langcode LANGUAGE: returns the language code associated with the language LANGUAGE;
• !translate LANG_CODE TEXT: do the translation of the English text TEXT to the language associated with LANG_CODE.

The bot will be released on GPL, but only at version 1.0. Until there, I'll put here some code snipplets, to all interested on create your own IRC bot, or to anyone that wants to learn something about Python. Also I'll write about transbot's features...

Finishing, a simple TODO list that I must to develop for the next versions:

- Generate some data structure to handle all the users of the channel, saving the last (and soon, the N latest) message of them;

- Create a function to auto translate from all languages, not only from English;

- Option to return some translated web address (URL);

- Must handle config files;

- Think about more useful functions;

- Make the bot funny (why not?? :D).

You can contact me on irc.freenode.net. I'm the user rodrigo_golive ;)