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# CloudBot/DEV
## About
CloudBot is a Python IRC bot based on [Skybot](http://git.io/skybot) by [rmmh](http://git.io/rmmh).
### Goals
* Easy to use wrapper
* Intuitive configuration
* Fully controlled from IRC
* Fully compatable with existing skybot plugins
* Easily extendable
* Thorough documentation
* Cross-platform
* Muti-threaded, efficient
* Automatic reloading
* Little boilerplate
## Getting and using CloudBot
### Download
Get CloudBot at [https://github.com/ClouDev/CloudBot/zipball/develop](https://github.com/ClouDev/CloudBot/zipball/develop "Get CloudBot from Github!").
Unzip the resulting file, and continue to read this document.
### Install
Install required Linux packages (check bottom)
Before you can run the bot, you need to install a few Python dependencies. These can be installed with `pip` (The Python package manager):
[sudo] pip install -r requirements.txt
#### How to install `pip`
curl -O http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py # or download with your browser on windows
python distribute_setup.py
easy_install pip
### Run
Once you have installed the required dependencies, you can run the bot!
`python bot.py`
On Windows you can usually just double-click the `bot.py` file to start the bot, as long as you have Python installed correctly.
## Getting help with CloudBot
### Documentation
To configure your CloudBot, visit the [Config Wiki Page](http://git.io/cloudbotircconfig).
To write your own plugins, visit the [Plugin Wiki Page](http://git.io/cloudbotircplugins).
More at the [Wiki Main Page](http://git.io/cloudbotircwiki).
### Support
The developers reside in [#CloudBot](irc://irc.esper.net/cloudbot) on [EsperNet](http://esper.net) and would be glad to help you.
If you think you have found a bug/have a idea/suggestion, please **open a issue** here on Github.
### Requirements
Linux packages needed for install: python, python-dev, libenchant-dev, libenchant1c2a, libxslt-dev, libxml2-dev.
CloudBot runs on **Python** *2.7.x*. It is developed on **Ubuntu** *12.04* with **Python** *2.7.3*.
It **requires the Python module** `lXML`, and `Enchant` is needed for the spellcheck plugin.
It also **requires** `pydns` and `beautifulsoup4` and is needed for SRV record lookup for the mctools plugin.
**Windows** users: Windows compatibility some plugins is **broken** (such as ping), but we do intend to add it.³
## Example CloudBots
The developers of CloudBot run two CloudBots on [Espernet](http://esper.net).
They can both be found in [#CloudBot](irc://irc.esper.net/cloudbot "Connect via IRC to #CloudBot on irc.esper.net").
**mau5bot** is the semi-stable bot, and runs on the latest stable development version of CloudBot. (mau5bot is running on **Ubuntu Server** *12.04* with **Python** *2.7.3*)
## License
CloudBot is **licensed** under the **GPL v3** license. The terms are as follows.
CloudBot/DEV
Copyright © 2011-2013 Luke Rogers / ClouDev - <[cloudev.github.com](http://cloudev.github.com)>
CloudBot is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
CloudBot is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with CloudBot. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
## Notes
³ eventually