[IRC Bot] A Definitive Answer?

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Tau_Zero

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I have carefully read the ToS and searched for variations to try and get around the search term letter minimum, and only came across one thread that discussed it a little bit:
http://forums.x10hosting.com/free-hosting/38408-problem-running-script.html
In the thread, a fellow was being helped by an admin during a server changeover when his bot script kept dying. However, someone also had said that they thought hosting of bots was not allowed.

The reason I ask is that I'm building a website for my alliance/clan in the MMO, Hyperiums. It's going to have various tools and maps and such for members. We also have two IRC channels on the game's irc server. Currently, one of our members is running an IRC bot for our channels that gives out different game information on request (ex: !status ->returns whether the game server is online, !r Player -> returns the player's rankings in the game, !ticks ->returns how long until things like cash update or fleet movement). The problem is, it's only online when he's online. I found a way of running a PHP IRC Bot here that doesn't need command line access or anything. I want to know if I can go ahead and develop a PHP version and run it off here.

A definitive answer either way would be greatly appreciated. I don't want to breaking any rules here.
 
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Nope, you may not run 'bots' off x10 servers. What you can do is use XML-RPC and use that to communicate with a mIRC bot if you really have to.
 

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Well, I'm glad I asked then before rolling it out.

Nope, you may not run 'bots' off x10 servers. What you can do is use XML-RPC and use that to communicate with a mIRC bot if you really have to.

Do you know of any good examples of such a situation that I could look into? Googling "XML-RPC irc bot" doesn't really come up with much and the XML-RPC site neither has anything i can find on the matter nor has their discussion board up and properly running.
 

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Haven't scripted in mIRC for years so don't know any quick Guides. Altenatively you could make a script they could query for data and parse it ( a quick and dirty version of XMLRPC ).

I.e

somesite.com/mirc.php?action=getplayers&param=1

Should return you some data which you can parse.

http://www.mircscripts.org/comments.php?cid=2746 may be of assistance.
 
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