FAQ

Q: What IRC network should I use?

A: Espernet is bot friendly. See http://esper.net/bots.php for details.

Q: How do I use TLS?

A: Several IRC networks use the STARTTLS command for switching to TLS. PurpleIRC will auto detect this and switch to TLS if tls is set to true. Typically the port is a non-SSL port like 6667.

port: 6667
ssl: false
tls: true

Q: How do I add custom commands?

A: See the commands section of the sample bot yml file. In the example below a user on IRC can run the gamemode command and pass it parameters. You can add virtually any command that would work from the console.

     gamemode:
       modes: 'o'
       private: false
       ctcp: false
       game_command: 'gamemode %ARGS%'
       private_listen: true
       channel_listen: true

Q: How do I set the IRC command prefix?

A: See the "command-prefix:" in the bot yml file

Q: How do I join my bot to multiple channels?

A: In your bot file just add an extra channel like this.

channels:
 '#channel1':
   autojoin: true
   modes: 
   password: 
   ...
 '#channel2':
   autojoin: true
   modes: 
   password: 
   ...

Q: How do I delete my bot?

A: Stop the server and then remove the bot yml file.

Q: How do I put dots in my channel name?

A: Use %2E instead of a dot. This will be decoded automatically.

channels:
 '#channel%2Etest:
   autojoin: true
   modes: 
   password: 
   ...

Q: How do I prevent non-public faction chat messages from appearing in IRC?

A: Remove the game-chat from enabled-messages list. Enable faction-public-chat for general chat.

Q: How do I prevent non-public hero chat messages from appearing in IRC?

A: Remove game-chat from your enabled-messages for that bot. Then only enable hero-CHANNELNAME-chat where CHANNELNAME is the name of the hero channel you want to see messages from.

Q: How do I prevent mcMMO admin chat from appearing in IRC?

A: To disable mcMMO admin chat from appearing in IRC remove mcmmo-admin-chat and game-chat from the enabled-messages section and then do "/irc reloadbotconfigs"

Q: How do I register my bot with the NICKSERV?

A: Use the sendraw command.

irc sendraw NickServ REGISTER [Password] [Email Address]
irc sendraw NickServ VERIFY REGISTER [Bot Nick] 

If the IRC server does not recognize NickServ commands try the PRIVMSG command.

irc sendraw PRIVMSG NickServ :REGISTER [Password] [Email Address]
irc sendraw PRIVMSG NickServ :VERIFY REGISTER [Bot Nick] 

Q: Why won't my bot load?

A: There is a likely YAML syntax error. Test your yml file on a [validator].

Q: Why won't TownyChat messages relay to IRC?

A: You must set "hooked: true" for each channel in your "plugins/Towny/settings/Channels.yml" file. Example:

channels:
   general:
       commands: [g]
       type: GLOBAL
       channeltag: '&r[&4g&r]'
       messagecolour: '&f'
       permission: 'towny.chat.general'
       craftIRCTag: 'admin'
       hooked:  true
       range: '-1'

Q: Why won't PurpleIRC display Korean characters?

A: You must set "charset: UTF-8" in your "bot.yml" file. Example:

charset: UTF-8

Q Why does my config.yml and/or bot yml lose changes after restart?

A: The plugin saves configurations in memory and then dumps them back to disk after stop. Any time you make changes to config.yml use "/irc reloadconfig". If you make changes to the bot use "/irc reloadbotconfigs".

/irc reloadbotconfigs
/irc reloadconfig

Q How do I send a message to the IRC channel on join?

A: Use the raw-message option.

raw-message: 'PRIVMSG #channel :Hi there!'
raw-message-on-join: true

Q Will this plugin allow cross server chatting?

A: Yes.

Q: Is there an API?

A: I have not created any API's yet. However, the IRC messaging methods are public. You should be able to send a message to any channel or user like this.

PurpleIRC pIrc = (PurpleIRC)Bukkit.getPluginManager().getPlugin("PurpleIRC");
for (PurpleBot ircBot : pIrc.ircBots.values()) {
  ircBot.asyncIRCMessage("#channel", "some message");
}