bt-irc-bridge

This is a utility I (cyzon) wrote to allow IRC clients to connect to BerryTube chat. It runs as a pseudo-IRC daemon and opens websocket connections to BerryTube, translating messages between the two.

Current Features:

• View userlist and people joining/leaving
• View chat and send chat messages
• View current video title (channel topic)
• Log in as a guest or registered user
• View and vote in polls
• Options for configuring certain messages (like drink calls and RCV) to be bold, colored, etc.
• Confirmed to work with HexChat, irssi, Weechat, ZNC, and Pidgin (kinda, Pidgin has some issues)

Installation/Running

Windows

I have a prepackaged version of node + required modules + bridge available:

1. Download bt-irc-portable.zip
2. Extract the downloaded file
3. Run btircbridge.bat

You can also install the Windows release of node and follow the steps for Linux to install the bridge.

Linux

Installing Node:

NOTE: If you are using a cutting-edge distribution like Arch which has node v0.10 in its repos, you can use the repo version. If you are using Ubuntu, Linux Mint, or a similar stable distribution, the version of node in their repos is ancient and won't work.

1. Download the latest source code from nodejs.org
2. Extract the tar.gz file
3. Enter the directory and run ./configure
4. Run make followed by sudo make install
5. Verify that node -v outputs something like v0.10.x or v0.12.x

Installing the bridge:

1. Run git clone https://github.com/berrytube/bt-irc-bridge (or download the zipball from GitHub and extract it)
2. cd bt-irc-bridge
3. npm install socket.io-client@^0.9.17
4. node server.js (Optional: bind a port besides 6667 by running node server.js <port>)

Controls

• Choose a guest name with /nick whatever
• Login as a regular user with /msg control login <user> <pass>
• Change configuration options with /msg control set <key> <value>
• /msg control set lists config keys
• /msg control set <key> shows the current value for
• View the current poll with /msg control poll
• View the previous poll with /msg control poll last
• Vote in a poll with /msg control poll vote <option #>
• Reconnect to berrytube with /msg control reconnect

Config

• yay_color: If enabled, use mIRC colors to turn to be pink
• rcv_color: If enabled, use mIRC colors to make rcv messages red
• rcv_bold: If enabled, set the bold attribute for rcv messages
• drink_bold: If enabled, set the bold attribute for drink calls (makes them more visible)
• request_color: If enabled, use mIRC colors to make requests blue
• poll_bold: If enabled, poll notification messages are bolded
• show_bold: If enabled, set the bold attribute for modmin bold messages
• show_underline: If enabled, set the underline attribute for italicized messages (_message_)
• strip_html: If enabled, strip HTML tags from messages
• echo: If enabled, echo back messages sent to berrytube. By default, when you send a message from IRC, it is displayed plain (unfiltered) in your IRC client. I cannot fix this with anything I do serverside, so by default messages from berrytube from your nickname are ignored because showing them would duplicate messages. You can override this by setting echo to true
• hide_spoilers: If enabled, replace spoiler messages with [SPOILER]. Enabled by default.