IRC Bridge is a simple program that connects two or more IRC channels by resending all messages captured on all channels to each of connected channels (without the one that received original message).

IRC Bridge depends on go-ircevent library so you have to download it by:

$ go get github.com/thoj/go-ircevent

You can build and run IRC Bridge with standard go build command:

$ go build irc_bridge.go
$ ./irc_bridge config.json

Configuration is stored in JSON format. Those are the accepted fields:

• nicks -- List of nicknames to try (if first is used, try second, etc).
• username -- Bot username.
• networks -- List of notwork configurations. Each entry contains name, address and channel.
• forward -- List of names of events to catch and resend to all channels. Those can be any valid eventcode used by go-ircevent library (eg. PRIVMSG, CTCP_ACTION, NICK).
• templates -- Mapping of eventcodes (from forward) to templates describing how to print given message types (it uses template system from golang package text/tempate).

See example.json.

It is possible to use color codes nad font formatting in messages templates, e.g. to show part of CTCP_ACTION message in bold use:

"CTCP_ACTION": "{{.Network}} \u0002*{{.Nick}}\u000F {{.Message}}"