On Wed, 07 May 2014 15:24:05 -0400 Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote:
> I am a complete and total novice to irc. Never used and never wanted > to before. > > Rather than put my vast ignorance on display and annoy the heck out of > others on the channel, I'd like to extract information from the irc > servers and write it to disk. > > My most often used scripting language is perl so I wondered if there > is already a perl module that will allow me to do that. Bot::BasicBot will allow you to write an IRC bot; irssi, XChat and others support Perl scripting for "plugins" to add features to the client. However, I think there are better tools at your disposal... > Here is an example of the kind of mess you can get into: > > Connecting to irc.freenode.net and foolishly but at least not > malignantly using the 'list' command. > > /list > > It spewed out so many lines that just kept coming until I finally > ^ c'ed over and over to get it to stop. Yeah, /list is a useless command on big networks. On Freenode, try "/q alis help" - alis is a channel listing service which allows you to search for channels by pattern. There's also irc.netsplit.de's IRC server/channel search engine: http://irc.netsplit.de/channels/?net=freenode -- David Precious ("bigpresh") <dav...@preshweb.co.uk> http://www.preshweb.co.uk/ www.preshweb.co.uk/twitter www.preshweb.co.uk/linkedin www.preshweb.co.uk/facebook www.preshweb.co.uk/cpan www.preshweb.co.uk/github -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
