node-red-node-irc 0.1.0
A Node-RED node to talk to an IRC server
A Node-RED node to talk to an IRC server.
Note : This is the same node as was in the core of Node-RED. As of v0.10.8 you will need to install it from here if still required.
Install
Run the following command in your Node-RED user directory - typically ~/.node-red
npm install node-red-node-irc
During install there may be multiple messages about libiconv charset support. These may look like failures... as they report as failure to compile errors - but are warnings and the node will continue to install and, assuming nothing else failed, you'll be able to use it, just without the character set features. You may of course manually install the extra dependancies as per the warnings, but they may not be available on all platforms.
Usage
Provides two nodes - one to receive messages, and one to send.
Input
Connects to an IRC server to receive messages.
The IRC Server field needs to be configured to a valid server, and you must select a default channel to join. You may join multiple channels by comma separating a list - #chan1,#chan2,#etc.
Incoming messages will appear as msg.payload
on the first output, while
msg.topic
will contain who it is from. msg.to
contains either the name
of the channel or PRIV in the case of a pm.
The second output provides a msg.payload
that has any status messages such as joins, parts, kicks etc.
The type of the status message is set as msg.payload.type
. The possible status types are:
message
: message is sent into the channelpm
: private message to the botjoin
: a user joined the channel (also triggered when the bot joins a channel)invite
: the bot is being invited to a channelpart
: a user leaves a channelquit
: a user quits a channekick
: a user is kicked from a channel
Output
Sends messages to a channel on an IRC server.
You can send just the msg.payload
, or the complete msg
object to the
selected channel, or you can select to use msg.topic
to send the
msg.payload
to a specific user (private message) or channel.
If multiple output channels are listed (eg. #chan1,#chan2), then the message will be sent to all of them.
Note: you can only send to channels you have previously joined so they MUST be specified in the node - even if you then decide to use a subset of them in msg.topic
You may send RAW commands using msg.raw
- This must contain an array of
parameters - eg.
["privmsg","#nodered","Hello world"]