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Welcome to the CloudBot wiki!

CloudBot is a IRC bot written in python.

Cloudbot was originally a clone of Skybot by rmmh, but has now become it's own project.

To get skybot, please download a zipball of the master branch (or clone it if you have git handy). Before you can run the bot, you need to install a few Python modules. These are LXML and BeautifulSoup. On Ubuntu these can be installed using the following commands:

sudo apt-get install python-lxml

sudo apt-get install python-beautifulsoup

For the spell.py plugin to work you need Enchant. This can be installed with: sudo apt-get install python-enchant

The whois.py plugin will work by default, but not very well. To make it work properly you will need to install the native whois package. This can be installed with: sudo apt-get install whois

If you use another OS or distro you can find source packages on the module(s) web site, or you can try to find suitable packages in your package manager.

Once installing these packages run the bot once with python bot.py to generate the config file. Stop the bot, edit the config, and run the bot again with python bot.py to start it up :)

Requirements

CloudBot runs on Python 2.7. Many of the plugins require lxml and BeautifulSoup. It is devloped on Ubuntu 11.10 with Python 2.7.2.