gossip

The fourth installment in my lineage of IRC bots with varying intelligence.

1. Swiggityspeare: a Java bot with exec wrappers around Karpathy's char-rnn LSTM neural network. It was incredibly fragile.
2. Stupidspeare: a Python reimplementation with none of the neural network intelligence.
3. Sequelspeare: Stupidspeare, but with a Tensorflow implementation of char-rnn.
4. gossip: a Golang reimplementation. No neural networks again, this incarnation focuses on implementing an IRC bot without an IRC framework library. sorcix/irc.v2 is used for protocol parsing.

Features

The usual array of IRC bot features

• karma, maintained through the generated gossip.db sqlite database
• !ping for liveness checks
• !part and !die support for leaving, and !toggle support to enable/disable features. authorized via configuration file
• HTML title text extraction
• a handful of other minor features, listed in the gossip package

Environment

• golang, the code was written with 1.15, but probably works back to 1.13
• relevant network details filled out in config.yaml
• [optional] a splunk server with an HTTP Event Collector configured to receive logs