A reimplementation of irccat, the original ChatOps tool, in Go.
irccat lets you easily send events to IRC channels from scripts and other applications.
Download the latest
release from Github, put
the example config
in /etc/irccat.json
or the local directory and customise it, and run!
## TCP → IRC Just cat a string to the TCP port - it'll be sent to the first channel defined in your channel list:
echo "Hello world" | nc irccat-host 12345
Or specify a channel or nickname to send to:
echo "#channel Hello world" | nc irccat-host 12345
echo "@nick Hello world" | nc irccat-host 12345
You can also send to multiple recipients at once:
echo "#channel,@nick Hello world | nc irccat-host 12345
And set a channel topic:
echo "%TOPIC #channel Channel topic" | nc irccat-host 12345
IRC formatting is supported (see a full list of codes):
echo "Status is%GREEN OK %NORMAL" | nc irccat-host 12345
There's a similar HTTP endpoint for sending messages. You can use curl in lieu of netcat, with "-d @-" to read POST data from stdin, like so:
echo "Hello world" | curl -d @- http://irccat-host/send
Everything that works via netcat also works by POST to /send.
There are also endpoints which support app-specific webhooks, currently:
- Grafana alerts can be sent to
/grafana
. They will be sent to the channel defined inhttp.listeners.grafana
.
More HTTP listeners welcome!
Note that there is (currently) no authentication on the HTTP endpoints, so you should make sure you firewall them from the world.
You can use irccat to execute commands from IRC:
?commandname string of arguments
This will call your commands.handler
script, with the following
environment variables:
IRCCAT_COMMAND
: The name of the command, without the preceding?
("commandname" in this example)IRCCAT_ARGS
: The arguments provided ("string of arguments" in this example)IRCCAT_NICK
: Nickname of the calling userIRCCAT_USER
: Username of the calling userIRCCAT_HOST
: Hostname of the calling userIRCCAT_CHANNEL
: Channel the command was issued in (may be blank if issued in PM)IRCCAT_RESPOND_TO
: The nick or channel that the STDOUT of the command will be sent toIRCCAT_RAW
: The raw IRC line received
The command handler's STDOUT will be sent back to the nick or channel where the command was issued.
An example python command handler, which dispatches commands to individual shell scripts, can be found in examples/command_handler.py.
irccat will only recognise commands from users in private message if
the user is joined to commands.auth_channel
defined in the config.
- Supports TLS connections to IRC servers.
- HTTP endpoint handlers.
- Doesn't support !join, !part commands, but does automatically reload the config and join new channels.
- Arguments are passed as environment variables to the command handler script, rather than as a single argument.