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 3 8f7f2f4a 2021-12-17 jrmu                                Creating a News Bot
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 5 8f7f2f4a 2021-12-17 jrmu   In our third lesson, we'll create an IRC bot that reads the news.
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 7 8f7f2f4a 2021-12-17 jrmu   Copy the code for rssbot.pl to your home folder:
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 9 8f7f2f4a 2021-12-17 jrmu   $ cp rssbot.pl ~/rssbot.pl
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11 8f7f2f4a 2021-12-17 jrmu   Next, open up rssbot.pl using a text editor and make a few changes.
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13 8f7f2f4a 2021-12-17 jrmu   1. Edit the server in line 32. Replace irc.example.com with the server's
14 8f7f2f4a 2021-12-17 jrmu      real address. NOTE: Only IPv4 is supported.
15 8f7f2f4a 2021-12-17 jrmu   2. Edit line 35 to replace nickname with the nickname you want for the bot.
16 8f7f2f4a 2021-12-17 jrmu      WARNING: The nickname must not already be taken, or else the bot will
17 8f7f2f4a 2021-12-17 jrmu      fail to connect.
18 8f7f2f4a 2021-12-17 jrmu   3. Edit line 36 to replace username with the username you want for the bot.
19 8f7f2f4a 2021-12-17 jrmu      The username is what appears in a /whois on IRC; it can be different
20 8f7f2f4a 2021-12-17 jrmu      from the nickname.
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22 8f7f2f4a 2021-12-17 jrmu   Next, you'll want to make the perl script executable:
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24 8f7f2f4a 2021-12-17 jrmu   $ chmod u+x ~/rssbot.pl
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26 8f7f2f4a 2021-12-17 jrmu   Then run the script:
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28 8f7f2f4a 2021-12-17 jrmu   $ perl ~/rssbot.pl
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30 8f7f2f4a 2021-12-17 jrmu   On IRC, /join #perl103
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32 8f7f2f4a 2021-12-17 jrmu   Type !rss and the bot will show you the latest updates to the
33 8f7f2f4a 2021-12-17 jrmu   IRCNow Almanack.
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37 8f7f2f4a 2021-12-17 jrmu                              Understanding RSSBot
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39 8f7f2f4a 2021-12-17 jrmu   Next, take a look at the file called ~/comments to see an explanation of
40 8f7f2f4a 2021-12-17 jrmu   key lines in the program RSSBot.
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