rbot is a ruby IRC bot. Think of him as a ruby bot framework with a highly modular design based around plugins.

• Runtime configuration via irc chat

• User authentication and access levels for using different bot features

• Built in infobot-style keywords.

• Support for underlying fact database (infobot fact files), which can be overridden or supplemented by runtime keyword controls

• Multi-language support - comes with english, dutch, german, french, italian japanese, chinese, russian and finnish definitions so far - more translations welcome

• Powerful plugin architecture, comes with plugins for:

  • RSS feed updates

  • IMDb queries

  • Translator with multitude of services, it’s easy as !translate Ein Automobil

  • Last.fm

  • Google searching

  • URL information

  • Seen nick?

    • rbot: seen tango? <rbot> tango_ was last seen 20 minutes and 7 seconds ago, joining #rbot

  • Reminders

    • Example: remind me about pizza in the oven in 15 minutes

  • Checking the weather

  • Doing math

  • GeoIP lookup

  • Lots of games, including uno, hangman, azgame and roshambo

  • Karma

  • Per-channel quote storage, searching and retrieval

  • Check the spelling of a word

  • RPG dice rolling

  • larting people

  • Conversation stats — also, rbot log format is supported by pisg

  • more…

Thanks are owed to the infobot developers - several of rbot’s features are inspired by infobot and so are some of the default plugins. Thanks are also owed to RADKade1, as rbot’s quote plugin is a direct reimplementation of his “quotesaq” - simply because it’s a great quote interface.

Mainly, rbot’s fun to play with, although the plugin architecture can be used to write very useful modules