IRCCD(1) - General Commands Manual
irccd - IRC Client Daemon
irccd [-v]
[-c file]
irccd info
irccd paths
irccd version
The irccd program is an IRC bot which connects to one or more severs and dispatches events to plugins and connected clients.
The following options are available:
-c file
specify the configuration file.
-v
be verbose.
When ran without arguments, irccd will read your configuration file and dispatch IRC events to the plugins and connected clients indefinitely.
Otherwise, the following commands are available:
info
Show in a scriptable manner the options that were selected during irccd’s build.
version
Get the irccd version. if Mercurial was available when building irccd then the current revision is bundled in the output.
paths
Shows where irccd will load plugins, configuration files and such.
The irccd program can run plugins once IRC events are received. For example, if someone sends you a private message plugins will be invoked with that event. Both native plugins written in C or C++ and Javascript are supported (if enabled at compile time).
The following IRC events are supported:
onCommand
This is a special event that does not exist in IRC context. It calls the plugin special invocation command using !name arguments… syntax. The exclamation mark is configured by default to be the command character prefix, then if the adjacent name is known to be a loaded plugin it is invoked with the additional arguments.
Example: to call the hangman plugin, one may use !hangman to start a game.
See also irccd.conf(5) on how to change the command character prefix under a server section block.
onConnect
When a server successfully connects to an IRC server.
onDisconnect
When a server disconnected from an IRC server both in case of failures or explicit user disconnection.
onInvite
Event called when the bot itself has been invited to a channel.
onJoin
When someone joins a channel.
onKick
When someone has been kicked from a channel, irccd may be included.
onLoad
This is a special event that does not exist in IRC context. It is invoked when the plugin is initialized.
onMessage
Upon private message.
onMe
On action emote, also most known as /me command.
onMode
When a user or channel mode change.
onNames
When a list of nicknames has been received.
onNick
On nick change, irccd may be included.
onNotice
On private notice.
onPart
When someone leaves a channel.
onReload
This is a special event that does not exist in IRC context. It is invoked when the user asks to reload a plugin.
onTopic
When a channel topic has been changed.
onUnload
This is a special event that does not exist in IRC context. It is invoked when the user asks to unload a plugin and before exiting.
onWhois
When a whois information has been received.
The following plugins are provided with irccd:
See additional documentation in their own manual page in the form irccd-plugin-name(7) where name is the actual plugin name.
Hooks are a different and more lightweight approach to plugins, they are executed upon incoming events and spawned each time a new event arrives.
In contrast to plugins, differences are:
Each hook will receive as positional argument the event name (similar to plugin events) and the event arguments.
See also the section hooks in irccd.conf(5) manual page to enable hooks.
The daemon can be controlled at runtime using the dedicated irccdctl tool or using raw TCP messages on a UNIX domain socket file.
See also the transport section in the irccd.conf(5) manual page.
irccd supports a feature called rules which allows you to define a fine-grained set of rules allowed for specific plugins. For instance, you may want to disable some IRC events for some plugins depending on your set of parameters. This is useful for plugins that generates huge traffic.
Rule events are matched using the same name as plugin events described in the section above. For example, to disable a private message event you must use the onMessage value.
See also the rule section in the irccd.conf(5) manual page.
irccd-api(7), irccd-cmake(7), irccd-ipc(7), irccd-plugin-ask(7), irccd-plugin-auth(7), irccd-plugin-hangman(7), irccd-plugin-history(7), irccd-plugin-joke(7), irccd-plugin-links(7), irccd-plugin-logger(7), irccd-plugin-plugin(7), irccd-plugin-roulette(7), irccd-plugin-tictactoe(7), irccd-templates(7), irccd.conf(5), irccdctl(1), irccdctl.conf(5)
The irccd daemon was written by David Demelier <markand@malikania.fr>.
The irccd daemon was written by David Demelier <markand@malikania.fr>.
macOS 13.5 - February 3, 2022