Stargate IRC bot

A small IRC bot, written in Perl, that dials random Stargate addresses and draws the gate. It exists in two versions with the same commands. The copy running in ##aussies on Rizon is the ZNC-module version, fartbot (see the Solar and fartbot guide for what it does there).

Command	Does
`!dial`	Dials a random seven-glyph gate address
`!gate`	Posts the gate picture from `gate.txt`, at most once a minute per channel
`!help`	Lists the commands

1. Standalone bot (Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable)

sudo apt install libbot-basicbot-pluggable-perl libpoe-component-sslify-perl
cp sgbot.conf.example sgbot.conf     # then edit it
perl sgbot.pl

It can connect straight to the IRC server or go through ZNC (see the example config). When connecting directly with invite = 1, it identifies to NickServ, asks ChanServ for an invite and then joins. Its nick needs ChanServ access on the channel.

2. ZNC module (modperl)

sudo apt install znc znc-perl
cp znc/stargate.pm ~/.znc/modules/

Then, from your IRC client connected to ZNC:

/msg *status loadmod --type=global modperl     (once, as a ZNC admin)
/msg *status loadmod stargate /full/path/to/gate.txt

The module answers as the ZNC user it's loaded on. To make it a separate bot, create a dedicated ZNC user, for example sgbot, and load it there.

Notes

The gate picture is plain text in gate.txt (about 35 lines); replace it with any ASCII art you like.
Cooldown: !gate is limited so the bot cannot flood a channel.
Perl strings that go through ZNC's modperl are encoded to UTF-8 on output, so read any text file with :encoding(UTF-8).