guyzmo / sochat

Stack Overflow Chat exposed as an IRC server

Stack Overflow Chat to IRC Server

this tool exposes an IRC server on port 6667 for localhost. Connect to it using your favorite IRC client and you'll be able to access all Stack Overflow channels.

Disclaimer

This tool is really early stage, so it is still ugly and buggy, and may not work well. So be warned that you may get banned from SO, get pwned by the russian mafia or attacked by a swarm of hungry trolls. I won't take any responsibility!

Build

to build the tool for development:

% pip install zc.buildout
% buildout

Use

once you've built it, it's easy:

% bin/soirc_server

then open your favorite IRC client and connect to it:

% irssi -c 127.0.0.1 -p 6667 -w PASSWORD -n LOGIN

where PASSWORD is your stackoverflow password and LOGIN your stackoverflow login (which usually is your email). It's only supporting StackExchange openid service at the time being, though it's easy to switch to google openid.

Implemented

• login to SO using openid
• join one channel
• talk and lurk that channel
• commands:
• /whois
• /whowas
• /who
• /names
• /join
• /list (which gives only the list of chans from chat.stackoverflow.com mainpage)
• translates html from SO Chat server to markdown
• breaks multiline messages in several messages

Known bugs (or bugs-alike)

• no command line argument parsing (hint: add docopt), which could solve:
• can only login through Stack Overflow OpenID (Google is supported as well but not available)
• cannot change port
• cannot change host
• cannot change cookiejar
• only one user can use the service
• if two users connect → undefined/unknown behaviour (it may kill pandas)
• there's a lot of exceptions in the log to be found
• there's a lot of code that I'm not sure it's really useful
• it's all in one file, it needs more modularity, dude!
• only one chan can be joined at a time, that sucks, uh?
• only one chat server can be connected to at a time
• it could be possible to join channels on other servers as well... or have one server-proxy per SO chat server?
• (with Ballmer's voice) bugs, bugs, bugs!

License

WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE 
Version 2, December 2004 

Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar <[email protected]> 

Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified 
copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long 
as the name is changed. 

DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE 
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION 

0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.

though I'm using a very permissive license, know that:

1. if you do fork and make this work better and do not tell me, you're just a moron
2. if you really like this software and want to thank me, well just fucking thank me!
3. and if you fuckingly love that software, then please buy me a damn good beer!