This is a library providing a framework for implementing an IRC bot in C.

So far, it is only suitable for pure "fun" bots. It doesn't offer managing channel or user modes, authenticating with services and any of that. It does offer reacting on typical bot commands, other PRIVMSGs, channel joins etc.

TLS is available by adding WITH_TLS=1 for building. This requires OpenSSL (or a compatible library). You can do for example:

make WITH_TLS=1
make WITH_TLS=1 install

Any value other than 0, no, off or false will enable TLS support.

Quick start

For a minimal bot to do something, you need:

an IrcServer object, created with IrcServer_create() and added to the bot with IrcBot_addServer()
If the bot should be on a channel, also call IrcServer_join()
at least one handler added to the bot with IrcBot_addHandler()
running the configured bot with IrcBot_run()

The headers in $(prefix)/include/ircbot are documented, best start with ircbot.h. You can also generate html reference documentation using doxygen.

Pregenerated html docs can currently be found on https://home.palmen-it.de/~felix/docs/libircbot/

A real usage example can be found on https://github.com/Zirias/wumsbot