MaruBlog is a worthless supybot (http://supybot.com) plugin that dumps blog posts from the blog I am Maru into an IRC channel.

Currently, it's set to strip out any lines that contain non-ASCII characters, mainly because many IRC servers aren't Unicode-aware, and this plugin was developed for English-speaking users. It's simple enough to hack to make it dump the Japanese back out.

It also works better when most of the users are using IRC clients that are capable of inlining images, like alice (http://github.com/leedo/alice).

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Installation

Dependencies

Use

maru : Returns a blog post at random. Issuing an integer as a parameter (e.g., maru 451 ) will return that particular blog post.

: Returns a blog post at random. Issuing an integer as a parameter (e.g., ) will return that particular blog post. hugs : Huuuugs!

Fun things to do

Add " Hey " and " , " to strings your bot will respond to. Add an alias for " maru! " to " maru "

Hey Maru!

Hey, Maru!

Installation is simple, simply drop the plugin into your Supybot plugin directory, and issue "load MaruBlog".You will need BeautifulSoup 3.0.x. ( http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ ). 3.10.x does not work properly.A summary of commands:Now, you can issueorto get a blog post.