Introduction

SocPuppet is a general purpose IRC bot, written in Python, with a very plugin-based approach to functionality. Originally designed to be for the ##socialites community of Freenode.

Dependancies

• Core

  • Python 2.6-2.7
  • Twisted 11+ - Internet engine behind the bot (will need python-dev if installing from setuptools)
  • Zope.Interface - Required for Twisted.
  • ConfigObj (and it's validate.py as well) - Provide an easy API for configs.
  • PyWin32 - If running on windows.
  • Argparse - Helpful for parsing commandline stuff.
  • SQLAlchemy - Database management.

• Website (Optional)

  • CherryPy - Website functionality.

• Plugins

  • BeautifulSoup4 - HTML parsing lib

Credits

• #python on Freenode - constant help
• #botters on Freenode - support
• #twisted on Freenode - general help
• ##socialites on Freenode - witty idiosyncrasies

Licence

Released under the MIT license. See LICENSE or this page.