Gary

Goals

• simplicity
  • little boilerplate
  • minimal magic
• power
  • multithreading
  • automatic reloading
  • extensibility
• modularity
  • minimal dependancies
  • easy plugin management

Features

• Multithreaded dispatch and the ability to connect to multiple networks at a time.
• Easy plugin development with automatic reloading and a simple hooking API.
• NickServ-based user authentication and per-function permissions with the ability to manage access to functions/plugins/the bot from in channel.

Requirements

• Python 2.7.x
• BeautifulSoup4
• lxml

Documentation

• Installation
• Configuration
• Plugin Development

License

Gary is licensed under the GPL v3 license. The terms are as follows:

 Gary - A Python IRC Bot
Copyright (C) 2013 Mike Rix Wolfe
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.