Sopel is a simple, lightweight, open source, easy-to-use IRC Utility bot, written in Python. It's designed to be easy to use, run and extend.

If you're on Arch, the easiest way to install is through your package manager. The package is named sopel in [community] repository. On other distros, and pretty much any operating system you can run Python on, you can install pip, and do pip install sopel. Failing all that, you can download the latest tarball from http://sopel.chat and follow the steps for installing from the latest source below.

First, either clone the repository with git clone git://github.com/sopel-irc/sopel.git or download a tarball from GitHub.

Note: sopel requires Python 2.7.x or Python 3.3+ to run. On Python 2.7, sopel requires backports.ssl_match_hostname to be installed. Use pip install backports.ssl_match_hostname or yum install python-backports.ssl_match_hostname to install it, or download and install it manually from PyPi <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/backports.ssl_match_hostname>.

In the source directory (whether cloned or from the tarball) run setup.py install. You can then run sopel to configure and start the bot. Alternately, you can just run the sopel.py file in the source directory.

The easiest place to put new modules is in ~/.sopel/modules.

Some extra modules are available in the sopel-extras repository, but of course you can also write new modules. A tutorial for creating new modules is available on the wiki. API documentation can be found online at http://sopel.chat/docs, or you can create a local version by running make html in the doc directory.

In addition to the official website, there is also a wiki which includes valuable information including a full listing of commands.

Join us in #sopel on Freenode.