Package kameloso on DUB

To use this package, run the following command in your project's root directory:

kameloso

kameloso is an IRC bot. It works as a Twitch bot too, see here.

Current functionality includes:

chat monitoring in bedazzling colours or mesmerising monochrome
reporting titles of pasted URLs, YouTube video information fetch
sed-replacement of messages (s/this/that/ substitution)
saving notes to offline users that get played back when they come online
logs
bugs
channel polls, !seen, counters, oneliners, timed announcements, stopwatches, modesets, ...
some common Twitch bot features
more random stuff and gimmicks

All of the above are plugins and can be disabled at runtime or omitted from compilation entirely. It is modular and easy to extend. A skeletal Hello World plugin is 25 lines of code.

Testing is primarily done on Libera.Chat and on Twitch, so support and coverage is best there.

Please report bugs. Unreported bugs can only be fixed by accident.

tl;dr

-n       --nickname Nickname
-s         --server Server address [irc.libera.chat]
-P           --port Server port [6667]
-A        --account Services account name
-p       --password Services account password
           --admins Administrators' services accounts, comma-separated
-H   --homeChannels Home channels to operate in, comma-separated
-C  --guestChannels Non-home channels to idle in, comma-separated
           --bright Adjust colours for bright terminal backgrounds
       --monochrome Use monochrome output
             --save Write configuration to file

Pre-compiled binaries for Windows and Linux can be found under Releases.

To compile it yourself:

$ dub run kameloso -- --server irc.libera.chat --homeChannels "#mychannel" --guestChannels "#d"

## alternatively, guaranteed latest
$ git clone https://github.com/zorael/kameloso.git
$ cd kameloso
$ dub build
$ ./kameloso --server irc.libera.chat --homeChannels "#mychannel" --guestChannels "#d"

If there's anyone talking it should show up on your screen.

Getting started

Grab a pre-compiled binary from under Releases; alternatively, download the source and compile it yourself.

Prerequisites

kameloso is written in D. It can be built using the reference compiler dmd, the LLVM-based ldc, and with the latest release of the GCC-based gdc. dmd compiles very fast, while ldc and gdc are slower at compiling but produce faster code. See here for an overview of the available compiler vendors.

You need one based on D version 2.084 or later (January 2019). For ldc this is version 1.14, and for gdc this is release series 12.

If your repositories (or other software sources) don't have compilers new enough, you can use the official install.sh installation script to download current ones, or any version of choice. (gdc is not available via this script.)

The package manager dub is used to facilitate compilation and dependency management. On Windows it comes bundled in the compiler archive, while on Linux it may need to be installed separately. Refer to your repositories.

SSL libraries on Windows

See the known issues section on Windows for information on libraries needed to connect to SSL servers and to allow plugins to access the web via https:// addresses.

Downloading source

$ git clone https://github.com/zorael/kameloso.git

It can also be downloaded as a .zip archive.

Compiling

$ dub build

This will compile the bot in the default debug mode, which adds some extra code and debugging symbols. You can omit these and perform some optimisations by building it in release mode with dub build -b release. Mind that build times will increase accordingly. Refer to the output of dub build --help for more build types.

Build configurations

There are several configurations in which the bot may be built.

application: base configuration
twitch: additionally includes Twitch chat support and the Twitch plugin
dev: all-inclusive development build equalling everything available, including things like more detailed error messages

All configurations come in -lowmem variants (e.g. application-lowmem, twitch-lowmem, ...) that lower compilation memory required at the cost of increasing compilation time, but so far they do not work with the dmd compiler. (bug #20699)

List configurations with dub build --print-configs. You can specify which to compile with the -c switch. Not supplying one will make it build the default application configuration.

$ dub build -c twitch

If you want to slim down and customise your own build to only compile the plugins you want to use, see the larger versions lists in dub.sdl. Simply add a character to the line corresponding to the plugin(s) you want to omit, thus invalidating the version identifiers and effectively disabling the code it relates to. Mind that disabling any of the "service" plugins may/will break the bot in subtle ways.

How to use

Configuration

The bot ideally wants the account name of one or more administrators of the bot, and/or one or more home channels to operate in. Without either it's just a read-only log bot, which is also fine. To define these you can either specify them on the command line, with flags listed by calling the program with --help, or generate a configuration file with --save and enter them there.

$ kameloso --save

A new kameloso.conf will be created in a directory dependent on your platform.

Configuration file

Linux and other Posix: $HOME/.config/kameloso (alternatively in a kameloso subdirectory of where $XDG_CONFIG_HOME points to; XDG standards are assumed)
Windows: %APPDATA%\kameloso
macOS: $HOME/Library/Application Support/kameloso

Open the file in a normal text editor.

As a shortcut you can pass --gedit to attempt to open it in a graphical editor, or --edit to open it in your default terminal one, as defined in the $EDITOR environment variable.

Command-line arguments

You can make changes to your configuration file in-place by specyfing some at the command line and adding --save.

$ kameloso \
    --server irc.libera.chat \
    --nickname "kameloso" \
    --admins "you" \
    --homeChannels "#mychannel" \
    --guestChannels "#d,##networking" \
    --monochrome
    --save

[12:34:56] Configuration written to /home/user/.config/kameloso/kameloso.conf

Settings not touched will keep their values.

Display settings

kameloso's text colours are by default set to go well with dark terminal backgrounds. If you have a bright background, text may be difficult to read (white on white), depending on your terminal emulator. If so, pass the --bright argument, and/or modify the configuration file; brightTerminal under [Core]. The bot uses 7 colours out of 8-colour ANSI, so if one or more colours are too dark or bright even with the right brightTerminal setting, please refer to your terminal appearance settings.

An alternative is to disable colours entirely with --monochrome.

Other files

More server-specific resource files will be created the first time you connect to a server. These include users.json, in which you whitelist which accounts are allowed to access the bot's features on a per-channel basis. Where these are stored also depends on platform; in the case of macOS and Windows they will be put in server-split subdirectories of the same directory as the configuration file, listed above. On Linux and other Posix, under $HOME/.local/share/kameloso (or a kameloso subdirectory of wherever $XDG_DATA_HOME points to; XDG standards remain assumed).

Example use

See the wiki for more information on available plugins and their commands.

Additionally, see this section about permissions if nothing happens when you try to invoke commands.

      you joined #channel
 kameloso sets mode +o you

      you | I am a fish
      you | s/fish/snek/
 kameloso | you | I am a snek

    blarf | I am a snek too
      you | !quote blarf I am a snek too
 kameloso | Quote saved. (5 on record)
      you | !quote blarf
 kameloso | #4 [2022-04-04 23:15] blarf | I am a snek too

      you | !seen
 kameloso | Usage: !seen [nickname]
      you | !seen MrOffline
 kameloso | I last saw MrOffline 1 hour and 34 minutes ago.

 MrOnline | !note
 kameloso | Usage: !note [nickname] [note text]
 MrOnline | !note MrOffline About the thing you mentioned, yeah no
 kameloso | Note added.
 MrOnline left #channel
MrOffline joined #channel
 kameloso | MrOffline! MrOnline left note 4 hours and 28 minutes ago: About the thing you mentioned, yeah no

      you | !operator add bob
 kameloso | Added BOB as an operator in #channel.
      you | !whitelist add alice
 kameloso | Added Alice as a whitelisted user in #channel.
      you | !blacklist del steve
 kameloso | Removed steve as a blacklisted user in #channel.

      you | !automode
 kameloso | Usage: !automode [add|clear|list] [nickname/account] [mode]
      you | !automode add ray +o
 kameloso | Automode modified! ray on #channel: +o
      ray joined #channel
 kameloso sets mode +o ray

      you | !oneliner new
 kameloso | Usage: !oneliner new [trigger] [type]
      you | !oneliner new info random
 kameloso | Oneliner !info created! Use !oneliner add to add lines.
      you | !oneliner add info @$nickname: for more information just use Google
 kameloso | Oneliner line added.
      you | !oneliner add info @$nickname: for more information just use Bing
 kameloso | Oneliner line added.
      you | !oneliner new vods ordered
 kameloso | Oneliner !vods created! Use !oneliner add to add lines.
      you | !oneliner add vods See https://twitch.tv/zorael/videos for $streamer's on-demand videos (stored temporarily)
 kameloso | Oneliner line added.
      you | !oneliner new source ordered
 kameloso | Oneliner !source created! Use !oneliner add to add lines.
      you | !oneliner add source I am $bot. Peruse my source at https://github.com/zorael/kameloso
 kameloso | Oneliner line added.
      you | !info
 kameloso | @you: for more information just use Google
      you | !info
 kameloso | @you: for more information just use Bing
      you | !vods
 kameloso | See https://twitch.tv/zorael/videos for Channel's on-demand videos (stored temporarily)
      you | !commands
 kameloso | Available commands: !info, !vods, !source
      you | !oneliner del vods
 kameloso | Oneliner !vods removed.

      you | !timer new
 kameloso | Usage: !timer new [name] [type] [condition] [message threshold] [time threshold] [stagger message count] [stagger time]
      you | !timer new mytimer ordered both 100 600 0 0
 kameloso | New timer added! Use !timer add to add lines.
      you | !timer add mytimer This is an announcement on a timer
 kameloso | Line added to timer mytimer.
      you | !timer add mytimer It is sent after 100 messages have been seen and 600 seconds have passed
 kameloso | Line added to timer mytimer.
(...time passes, messages get sent...)
 kameloso | This is an announcement on a timer
(...time passes, messages get sent...)
 kameloso | It is sent after 100 messages have been seen and 600 seconds have passed

      you | !poll
 kameloso | Usage: !poll [seconds] [choice1] [choice2] ...
      you | !poll 2m snek snik
 kameloso | Voting commenced! Please place your vote for one of: snik, snek (2 minutes)
      BOB | snek
    Alice | snek
      ray | snik
 kameloso | Voting complete, results:
 kameloso | snek : 2 (66.6%)
 kameloso | snik : 1 (33.3%)

      you | https://github.com/zorael/kameloso
 kameloso | [github.com] GitHub - zorael/kameloso: IRC bot
      you | https://youtu.be/ykj3Kpm3O0g
 kameloso | [youtube.com] Uti Vår Hage - Kamelåså (HD) (uploaded by Prebstaroni)

(context: playing a video game)
      you | !counter
 kameloso | Usage: !counter [add|del|list] [counter word]
      you | !counter add deaths
 kameloso | Counter deaths added! Access it with !deaths.
      you | !deaths+
 kameloso | deaths +1! Current count: 1
      you | !deaths+3
 kameloso | deaths +3! Current count: 4
      you | !deaths
 kameloso | Current deaths count: 4
      you | !deaths=0
 kameloso | deaths count assigned to 0!

      you | !stopwatch start
 kameloso | Stopwatch started!
      you | !stopwatch
 kameloso | Elapsed time: 18 minutes and 42 seconds
      you | !stopwatch stop
 kameloso | Stopwatch stopped after 1 hour, 48 minutes and 10 seconds.

Online help and commands

Use the !help command for a summary of available bot commands, and !help [plugin] [command] for a brief description of a specific one. The shorthand !help !command also works.

The command prefix (here "!") is configurable; refer to your configuration file. Common alternatives are . (dot), ~ (tilde) and ?, making it .note, ~quote and ?counter respectively.

[Core]
prefix                      "!"

It can technically be any string and not just one character. It may include spaces if enclosed within quotes, like "please " (making it please note, please quote, ...). Additionally, prefixing commands with the bot's nickname also always works, as in kameloso: seen MrOffline. This is to be able to disambiguate between several bots in the same channel. Moreover, some administrative commands only work when called this way.

Except nothing happens

Before allowing anyone to trigger any restricted functionality, the bot will try to identify that user by querying the server for what services account the accessing user is logged onto, if not already known. For full administrative privileges you will need to be logged in with an account listed in the admins field in the configuration file, while other users may be defined with other permissions in your users.json file. If a user is not logged onto services it is considered as not being uniquely identifiable and cannot be resolved to an account.

In the case of hostmasks mode, the above still applies but "accounts" are derived from hostmasks. See the Admin plugin !hostmask command (and the hostmasks.json file) for how to map hostmasks to would-be accounts. Hostmasks are a weaker solution to user identification but not all servers may offer services. See the wiki entry on hostmasks.

Twitch

Refer to the wiki page on Twitch for more in-depth information.

Copy paste-friendly concrete setup from scratch

Pre-compiled binaries for Windows and Linux can be found under Releases.

If you're on Windows, you must first install the OpenSSL library. Run this command to download and launch the installer for it, then opt to install to Windows system directories when asked.

kameloso --get-openssl

The rest is common for all platforms.

kameloso --setup-twitch

The --setup-twitch command creates a configuration file with the server address and port already set to connect to Twitch, then opens it up in a text editor.

A line with a leading `#` is disabled, so remove any `#`s from the heads of entries you want to enable.

Add your channel to homeChannels. Channel names are account names (which are always lowercase) with a # in front, so the Twitch user Streamer123 would have the channel #streamer123.
Optionally add an account name to admins to give them global low-level control of the bot. Owners of channels (broadcasters) automatically have high privileges in the scope of their own channels, so it's not strictly needed.
You can ignore nickname, user, realName, account and password, as they're not applicable on Twitch. Do not enter your Twitch password anywhere.
Peruse the file for other settings if you want; you can always get back to it by passing --gedit (short for graphical editor).

The program can then be run normally.

kameloso

It will connect to Twitch, and upon detecting it's missing the authorisation token needed to authenticate with the server it will start the guide to requesting a new one in your terminal. See the "long story" section below for details.

Note that it will request a token for the user you are currently logged in as in your browser. If you want one for a different "bot user" instead, open up a private/incognito window, log in normally to Twitch with the bot account there, and copy/paste this link and follow it in that browser window instead. (Then follow the terminal instructions again.)

After obtaining a token it will save it to your configuration file and reconnect to the server. Provided there were no errors, the bot should now enter your channel. Say something in chat in your browser's chat and it should show in your terminal. If there were errors or snags, please report them.

If you don't like the terminal colouring, --monochrome disables it.

Example configuration

[IRCClient]
nickname                    doesntmatter
user                        ignored
realName                    likewise

[IRCBot]
#account
#password
pass                        <twitch.keygen authorisation token for bot account>
admins                      mainaccount
homeChannels                #mainaccount,#botaccount
#guestChannels

[IRCServer]
address                     irc.chat.twitch.tv
port                        6697

[Twitch]
enabled                     true
ecount                      true
watchtime                   true
songrequestMode             youtube
songrequestPermsNeeded      whitelist
promoteBroadcasters         true
promoteModerators           true
promoteVIPs                 true

The Twitch SSL port is 6697 (or 443). For non-encrypted traffic, use the default port 6667.

Long story

To connect to Twitch servers you must first build a configuration that includes support for it, which is currently either twitch or dev. All pre-compiled binaries available from under [Releases](https://github.com/zorael/kameloso/releases) already have this built-in.

You will also require an authorisation token. Assuming you have a configuration file set up to connect to Twitch, it will automatically start the guide to requesting one upon connecting, if none is present. Run the bot with --set twitch.keygen to force it if it doesn't, or if your token expired. (They last for about 60 days.)

It will open a browser window, in which you are asked to log onto Twitch on Twitch's own servers. Verify this by checking the page address; it should end with .twitch.tv, with the little lock symbol showing the connection is secure.

Note: At no point is the bot privy to your Twitch login credentials! The logging-in is wholly done on Twitch's own servers, and no information is sent to any third parties. The code that deals with this is open for audit; requestTwitchKey in plugins/twitch/keygen.d.

After entering your login and password and clicking Authorize, you will be redirected to an empty "this site can't be reached" or "unable to connect" page. Copy the URL address of it and paste it into the terminal, when asked. It will parse the address, extract your authorisation token, and save it to your configuration file.

If you prefer to generate the token manually, here is the URL you need to follow. The only thing the generation process does is open it for you, and automate saving the end token to your configuration file (as pass under [IRCBot]).

Twitch bot

Please make the bot a moderator to prevent its messages from being as aggressively rate-limited.

Assuming a prefix of !, commands to test are:

!start, !uptime, !stop
!followage
!shoutout
!vanish
!repeat
!ecount
!watchtime
!nuke
!songrequest
!settitle
!setgame
!commercial
!startpoll/!endpoll (highly experimental, need help from affiliate)

...alongside !oneliner, !counter, !timer, !poll (chat poll), !stopwatch, and other non-Twitch-specific commands. Try !help or the wiki.

Note: . (dot) and / (slash) prefixes will not work on Twitch.

Song requests

To get song requests to work, you need to register an application to interface with Google (YouTube) and/or Spotify servers individually. To initiate the guides for this, pass --set twitch.googleKeygen for YouTube and --set twitch.spotifyKeygen for Spotify, then simply follow the on-screen instructions. (They behave much like --set twitch.keygen.)

Certain commands require higher permissions

Some functionality, such as setting the channel title or currently played game, require elevated credentials with the permissions of the channel owner (broadcaster). As such, if you want to use such commands, you will need to generate an OAuth authorisation token for your main account separately, much as you generated one for the bot account. This will request a token from Twitch with more permissions, and the authorisation browser page should reflect this.

$ kameloso --set twitch.superKeygen

Mind that you need to be logged into Twitch (in your browser) with your main account while doing this, or the token obtained will be with permissions for the wrong channel.

Further help

For more information and help, first refer to the wiki.

If you still can't find what you're looking for, or if you have suggestions on how to improve the bot, you can...

...start a thread under Discussions
...file a GitHub issue

Known issues

Windows

kameloso uses OpenSSL to establish secure connections. It is the de facto standard library for making secure connections in the Posix sphere (Linux, macOS, ...), but not so on Windows. If you run into errors about missing SSL libraries when attempting to connect on Windows, pass the --get-openssl flag to download and launch the installer for OpenSSL for Windows v1.1.\*. Make sure to opt to install to Windows system directories when asked.

Roadmap

pipedream zero: no compiler segfaults (#18026, #20562)
please send help: Windows Secure Channel SSL
more pairs of eyes

Built with

License

This project is licensed under the Boost Software License 1.0 - see the LICENSE10.txt file for details.

Acknowledgements

Kamelåså
ikod for dlang-requests
Adam D. Ruppe for arsd
#d on libera.chat
IRC Definition Files and #ircdocs on libera.chat

3.14.159	2024-Jan-27
3.13.0	2023-Sep-26
3.12.1	2023-Sep-06
3.12.0	2023-Aug-25
3.11.1	2023-Jul-21

kameloso 3.4.1