infobot
infobot is an IRC bot written in Perl 5 which implements a sort of artificial intelligence by learning information ("factoids") from channel discussions and then responding intelligently to queries about this accumulated information. It also acts as a gateway to other useful sources of information (e.g. online dictionarys/weather stations, internic WHOIS database, DNS, IMDB, slashdot headlines, search engines, other infobots).
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Recent releases
- 30 Jan 2001 06:13
Release Notes: Support for arbitrary RSS files that can be updated on-the-fly (including one for freshmeat.net), the ability to retrieve currency exchange rates from the net and to connect to the excuse server and generate excuses, a re-enabled search capability, a new 'literal' query which shows an internal representation of factoids, a 'purldoc' module for searching Perl FAQ questions, a Zippy module, 'divine' (a magic 8-ball), the ability to use MD5 passwords, and several bug fixes.
- 30 Jan 2001 06:13
Release Notes: New interfaces for USAir flight info, insult server, METAR, most existing search engines; new security factpack; new "shut up" and "wake up" commands; other miscellaneous changes.
- 30 Jan 2001 06:13
Release Notes: CTCP DoS and other bug fixes, updated docs and factpacks, added a new slashdot headlines module.
- 30 Jan 2001 06:13
Release Notes: Many changes, including a babelfish translator and insult server (both require LWP).
Recent comments
Mozbot
As of August, 2003, there is little development on the Infobot codebase. However, there is active development on Mozbot (www.mozilla.org/projec..., a similar, modular bot, also written in Perl, which has the Infobot's features and many more.
timriker
16 Jul 1999 10:46
Heartbeat
- Popularity Score
- 34.29
- Vitality Score
- 2.02
- Subscriptions
- 5
