Use sockets to attempt to join an IRC channel and talk with a bot

1. Press the Clone or download button in the top right
2. Copy the URL (link)
3. Open the command line and change directory to where you wish to clone to
4. Type 'git clone' followed by URL in step 2

$ git clone https://github.com/[user-name]/[repository]

More information can be found at https://help.github.com/en/articles/cloning-a-repository

1. Press the Clone or download button in the top right
2. Click open in desktop
3. Choose the path for where you want and click Clone

More information can be found at https://help.github.com/en/desktop/contributing-to-projects/cloning-a-repository-from-github-to-github-desktop

1. Download this GitHub repository
2. Extract the zip archive
3. Copy/ move to the desired location

This program has been written for Python 3 and has been tested with Python version 3.7.0 https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-370/ on a Windows 10 PC.

To install Python, go to https://www.python.org/ and download the latest version.

1. Open the .py file in IDLE
2. Run by pressing F5 or by selecting Run> Run Module

• Read configuration data from a json file ('data.json'). In the form:

{
"host_url": "irc.hostname.org",
"protocol": "IRC",
"port": 6667,
"irc_channel": "#channel",
"bot_name": "bot_name",
"user_name": "user_name",
"user_password": "user_password"
}

• Gets a message in its raw from

getRawMessage()

• Takes a raw message and refines it (name, message)

getRefinedMessage(messageData)

• Starts an IRC connection, signs in and goes to the desired channel
• Ignore the welcome messages

You can add code to talk to the target bot deal with any responses and deal with them appropriately. For instance you may want to implement a 'chatbot' or answer challenge questions (in the case of root-me)

Send a private message to our target bot

irc.send(bytes("PRIVMSG "+ bot_name +" :"+ "my message here" +"\n", "UTF-8"))

Get a message from the bot

messageData = getRawMessage()
if (DEBUG):
    print(messageData)
name, message = getRefinedMessage(messageData)
print(name, message)

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