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author: ~cmccabe
published: true
title: irc bots on tilde.chat
description: information about irc bots on tilde.chat
category: 
    - main
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you might have seen some bots lurking about in chat. this page is intended to be a common place for documentation.

bots should be well-behaved and efficient with system resources. if you see a bot that is not, please remind the botmaster about this and/or notify an admin. naughty bots can make the system less enjoyable for everyone, and we all have to work together to police them.

## rules and etiquette for tilde.chat irc bots

please set usermode +B on your bot on connect to identify it as a bot.
this is also documented in [rfc-2](https://rfc.tildeverse.org/rfcs/2#usermode--b).

your bot must respond to !botlist with the following information:
- your system username (as creator/botmaster) - so we can contact you if the bot misbehaves
- one line description of the bot's functionality
- list of the bots public commands

be conservative about automatically re-connecting to the server or channel.

if your bot's code is not yet stable, keep it in the #bots channel and do testing there.

don't join #chaos or unless you want your bot to be spammed to hell and back.

all bots should also adhere to the following RFC specification: [RFC 2: Standardising IRC Bot Behavior](https://rfc.tildeverse.org/rfcs/2).

## tilde.team bot starter kit

[khuxkm](https://khuxkm.tilde.team) is hard at work developing a starter kit framework in python that you can use to build your own irc bot. find the [source here](https://tildegit.org/team/teambot). it's installed globally on ~team, so get coding!

## add your bot to the list below

follow the example of sedbot when you add your bot in a PR to the wiki

* sedbot
    - botmaster: [~ben](https://ben.tilde.team)
    - short description: sent a typo in chat? fix it up with a sed expression and sedbot will try to correct it
    - list of functions:
        + s/needle/replace/flags
        + most regex character classes match here
        + flags include `g` and `i`
    - [source](https://tildegit.org/ben/sedbot)
* tildebot
    - botmaster: [~ben](https://ben.tilde.team)
    - short description: an instance of BitBot for the tildeverse.
    - list of functions:
        + `sed`-like corrections like `sedbot`
        + weather/time per user (`,weather`/`,w`/`,time`)
        + user pronouns: `,pronouns`
        + wolfram alpha integration: `,wa`
        + translation services: `,translate le pain est sale`
        + some per-user configuration available via `,config`
        + git hooks (including gitea) - notifications on push/etc
        + write your own functionality with a plugin!
        + tilderadio notifications and other tilderadio functionality
        + ducc frens (when a duck appears: `,bef`/`,trap`, see stats with `,friends`/`,enemies`/`,duckstats`)
    - [BitBot source](https://github.com/jesopo/bitbot), [tildebot-specific modules repo](https://tildegit.org/ben/bitbot-modules)
* tracer
    - botmaster: [~ben](https://ben.tilde.team)
    - short description: generate tracery output from grammars in you ~/.tracery (on ~team) -
        forked and ported from [selfsame/tracer](https://notabug.org/selfsame/tracer) for py3 support
    - list of functions:
        + !!list
        + !!<grammar>
        + !!fuse <grammar1> <grammar2>
        + | at the end of commands will echo the output in a new message
            eg: !!drink | !toot
    - [source](https://tildegit.org/ben/tracer)
* tooter
    - botmaster: [~ben](https://ben.tilde.team)
    - short description: toots from @tildeverse@tilde.zone (@tildeteam@tilde.zone in #team)
    - list of functions:
        + !toot <message>
    - [source](https://tildegit.org/ben/tooter)
* Babili
    - botmaster: [~aewens](https://aewens.tilde.team)
    - short description: A data aggregating bot for the IRC server, can as an API for other bots for handling historical data from the network
    - list of functions:
	+ View aggregated data at https://babili.xyz
    - [source](https://tildegit.org/babili)
* circles
    - botmaster: [~lickthecheese](https://lickthecheese.fuckup.club)
    - short description: a nice bot to solve geometry problems
    - list of functions:
    + do ?help to list commands
    - [source](https://tildegit.org/lickthecheese/circles)
* [badger](./badger)
    - botmaster: [~khuxkm](https://khuxkm.tilde.team)
    - short description: the Twitch Plays Pokémon badge system, ported to tildeverse IRC?
    - list of functions:
        - `+listbadges` - List the badges in your possession.
        - `+transmute <badge> <badge> <badge> [badge...]` - Transmute 3 or more badges into one, hopefully rarer badge.
        -  just be active in #meta and you should get badges. you'll get a message when you get your first!
    -  [source](https://tildegit.org/khuxkm/badger)
* pink_dragon
    - botmaster: [~absalom](https://tildegit.org/baruchel)
    - short description: idle hack'n slash game on the `#legend` channel
    - list of functions: see the rules at [Legend of the Pink Dragon](https://pink-dragon.surge.sh)
    - [source](https://gitlab.com/baruchel/pink-dragon)
* k
    - botmaster: [~kiedtl](https://kiedtl.tilde.team)
    - short description: a small bot with a bunch of miscellaneous functions
    - list of functions:
        + `:dc`: `/bin/dc` expression evaluator.
        + `:fortune`: print a random fortune.
        + `:usrstats`: print statistics about users.
        + `:chanstats`: print statistics about channels.
        + `:owo`, `:pig`, `:rot13`, `:rev13`: random text manipulation functions.
        + and many more in the making!
    - [source](https://github.com/kiedtl/ircbot)