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(Changed "You can ask him" to "You can ask it" to make grammar consistent, b/c bots do not posess personhood, and above all b/c "he" as a gender-neutral is annoying as all get-out.)
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Noisebot is our irc bot. It occasionally does useful and/or annoying things.
Noisebot is our irc bot. It occasionally does useful and/or annoying things.


It hangs out in #noisebridge and #nycresistor.  You can ask him to tell people things across the two channels.
It hangs out in #noisebridge and #nycresistor.  You can ask it to tell people things across the two channels.


We're currently in an uptime contest with #nycresistor's bot.
We're currently in an uptime contest with #nycresistor's bot.

Revision as of 22:09, 8 March 2011

Noisebot is our irc bot. It occasionally does useful and/or annoying things.

It hangs out in #noisebridge and #nycresistor. You can ask it to tell people things across the two channels.

We're currently in an uptime contest with #nycresistor's bot.

Useful Commands

02:40 < radii> noisebot, note ioerror this is a test.
02:40 < noisebot> radii: I'll pass that on when ioerror is around.
13:33 < radii> .twitter crackhead theater, now playing on wiese st
13:33 < noisebot> radii: http://twitter.com/noisebridge/984347090
16:03 < arcanology> .title http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/XEMcKeXXHzQ/lasers-the-only-way-to-carve-a-pumpkin
16:03 < noisebot> arcanology: Lasers: The Only Way to Carve a Pumpkin
.wp <term>
returns the first sentance of the Wikipedia page for <term>, plus a link to that page.

Hacking the bot

It's a stock rbot instance, submit patches against rbot.