Tell Me More...

2016-09-21 06:09

Tell Me More is a piece of software that relays messages between a certain streaming site’s proprietary web chat system and a given IRC channel. I wrote it for myself so I can chat easily on my phone with a native interface during my IIDX / SDVX streams. Maybe you will find it useful too.

Android phone open to IRC on the control deck of a beatmania IIDX machine

Tell Me More is based on the Python asyncio IRC bot library irc3, not to be confused with IRCv3.

Screenshot of Tell Me More in action relaying messages to IRC

Features:

Automatic two-way chat relay between web and IRC
Multiple stream/channel pair support
Web nickname colorization on the IRC side
Transparently forwards your own messages if you let it log in as yourself
Automatically splits long lines from web chat to fit IRC limits
IRC-side notification of viewer arrivals and departures
Converts web-side emoticons to their textual equivalent for IRC

Where:

Here: https://phabricator.cooltrainer.org/diffusion/TMM/repository/master/
Anonymous clone works via HTTP only.
License: GPLv3

How:

Requires Python 3.5+
Dependency list for pip in requirements.txt
Run tellmemore/tellmemore.py

Future:

Support for relaying game screenshots from trusted user privmsg from something like ShareX
Command support for sending a full viewer list
Windows binary via PyInstaller? I don’t really use Windows

A first run will install a sample configuration and tell you where to find it. I use a dedicated streaming site user because I want to enable others to chat in my channel with clear differentiation, but it will work fine as yourself.