Eggdrop

Make SURE that you select your +n (owner) users wisely. They have 100% access to your bot and account. ONLY GIVE THIS POWER TO SOMEONE YOU TRUST COMPLETELY! Eggdrop is the world's most popular Internet Relay Chat (IRC) bot; it is freely distributable under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Eggdrop is a feature-rich program designed to be easily used and expanded upon by both novice and advanced IRC users on a variety of hardware and software platforms. An IRC bot is a program that sits on an IRC channel and performs automated tasks while looking just like a normal user on the channel. Some of these functions include protecting the channel from abuse, allowing privileged users to gain op or voice status, logging channel events, providing information, hosting games, etc. One of the features that makes Eggdrop stand out from other bots is module and Tcl and Python scripting support. With scripts and modules you can make the bot perform almost any task you want. They can do anything: from preventing floods to greeting users and banning advertisers from channels. You can also link multiple Eggdrop bots together to form a botnet. This can allow bots to op each other securely, control floods efficiently and even link channels across multiple IRC networks. It also allows the Eggdrops share user lists, ban/exempt/invite lists, and ignore lists with other bots if userfile sharing is enabled. This allows users to have the same access on every bot on your botnet. It also allows the bots to distribute tasks such as opping and banning users. See doc/BOTNET for information on setting up a botnet. This README file contains information about how to get Eggdrop, command line options for Eggdrop, what you may need to do when upgrading from older versions, a list of frequently asked questions, how to set up a crontab, some boring legal stuff, some basics about git usage and some channels where you might get help with Eggdrop. There are two official methods to download Eggdrop source code. Alternately, Eggdrop also comes as a docker image. Eggdrop developers use git to manage the Eggdrop codebase for development. If you are interested in trying out the VERY LATEST updates to Eggdrop, you can use git to obtain most recent code from the Eggheads repository. BE WARNED, the development branch of Eggdrop is not to be considered stable and may (haha) contain significant bugs still being worked on. To obtain Eggdrop via the git repository (hosted by GitHub), you can either clone the repository via git or download a development snapshot. Before you can compile Eggdrop, Tcl must be installed on your system. Many systems have Tcl installed on them by default (you can check by trying the command "tclsh"; if you are given a '%' for a prompt, it is, and you can type 'exit' to exit the Tcl shell. However, Eggdrop also requires the Tcl development header files to be installed. They can often be installed via an OS package manager, usually called something similar to 'tcl-dev' for the package name. You can also download Tcl source from Eggdrop also requires openssl (and its development headers) in order to enable SSL/TLS protection of network data. The header files are often called something similar to 'libssl-dev'. While not advised, this requirement can be removed by compiling using ./configure --disable-tls, but you will not be able to connect to TLS-protected IRC servers nor utilize secure botnet communication. The upgrade process for Eggdrop is very simple, simply download the new source code and repeat the compile process. You will want to read the NEWS for any new configuration file settings you want to add. Please see Upgrading for full details. Eggdrop has some command line options - not many, because most things should be defined through the config file. However, sometimes you may want to start up the bot in a different mode and the command line options let you do that. Basically, the command line for Eggdrop is: interactive partyline s