Andre's Irssi Scripts

Irssi is a GPL licensed, proven Internet Relay Chat (IRC) textmode client with support for Perl scripting.

Script	Brief Description
jalso.pl	"Join also" is a channel recommender, based on aggregated whois-data of users in the current channel
osd.pl	"On Screen Display" displays chat lines at the bottom of a X11 desktop when the Irssi is invisible

 

Script 1: Collaborative Filtering of IRC Channels – jalso.pl

Difficult to oversee 39 thousand channels on IRCnet, 63 thousand on QuakeNet, 20 thousand on EFnet

• channel search usually limited to list or ALIS (Advanced List Service) or web-search (~500 networks)
• sometimes you don't know what you can get — so you don't look for it
• similar channels may be more visited — names?
• more specific or more general channels may be better (#javascript <-> #webdesign)
• helpful behavior / knowledge of other users: they visit related channels
  • the relation is, e.g., professional, geographical, organizational, ideological
  • Heuristic: relatedness correlates positively with the cardinality of the intersection of their participants

Installation on *nix or Windows:

1. Irssi comes pre-installed on Linux
2. copy jalso.pl to ~/.irssi/scripts/autorun/ or %USERPROFILE%\.irssi\scripts\autorun\ (Windows)
3. type /jalso in the channel
4. unfortunately, irc.freenode.net is no longer supported, see comments in the source code

 

Script 2: Follow Chats Without Visible Irssi Window – osd.pl

Anyone who works and chats in parallel, regularly checks for new text in the chat window. He also interrupts his work, if there's no text, because he only knows it afterwards. But if he is told when it is worthwhile, then he can keep an eye on the work:

New answers appear directly on the desktop and disappear again:

Since text overlays distract too, they are more useful in quieter chats — IRC users idle most of the time, though. Individual channels can be muted with the /osdmute command in Irssi. In addition, automatic coloring makes it easier to distinguish between important and less important channels without having to read the answers. Overlays only appear when Irssi is invisible.

Installation on GNU/Linux:

1. Irssi comes pre-installed on Linux
2. install libXosd (system/xosd package on Slackware)
3. $ sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install X::Osd'
4. copy osd.pl to ~/.irssi/scripts/autorun/

 

Other Scripts That I Use

• TODO

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