This bot's IRC companion sits in the cvn-wp-en channel and uses this account to edit {{Wdefcon}} on request made in the channel.

Detailed instructions: tools:~misza13/cgi-bin/wdefconbot.py

Archived approval of the bot is available at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approvals/Archive4#User:WdefconBot

Source edit

This is the bot's source code. It assumes that the file lies in the pywikipedia/ directory (an already logged-in pywikipedia framework is required to work) and is executed from there. To adjust the configuration, modify constants specified at the end of file.

#!/usr/bin/env python

import re, socket, time, wikipedia

class WdefconBot:
  def __init__(self):
    self.LASTLEVEL = '0'
    self.LASTEDITED = 0
    self.LOGfile = open('defbotlog.txt', 'a+')
    self.site = wikipedia.getSite()
    self.IRC = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_STREAM)

  def log(self,nick,text):
    TIME = time.gmtime()
    self.LOGfile.write("[%04d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d.%02d] (%s) :%s\n" % (TIME[0:6] + (nick, text)))
    self.LOGfile.flush()

  def irc_conn(self,server,port):
    self.IRC.connect((server,port))

  def login(self,nickname, password, username, realname, hostname='hostname', servername='server'):
    self.IRC.send("PASS %s\n" % password)
    self.IRC.send("USER %s %s %s :%s\n" % (username, hostname, servername, realname))
    self.IRC.send("NICK %s\n" % nickname)
    self.nick = nickname

  def join(self,channel):
    self.IRC.send("JOIN %s\n" % channel)
    self.channel = channel

  def do_say(self,target,text):
    self.IRC.send("PRIVMSG %s :%s\n" % (target, text))

  def do_ctcp(self,target,text):
    self.IRC.send("PRIVMSG %s :\001%s\001\n" % (target, text))

  def user_access(self,hostmask):
    asteriskRE = re.compile('\*')
    for mask in ACCESSLIST.keys():
      maskRE = re.compile(asteriskRE.sub('.*?',mask))
      if maskRE.match(hostmask):
        return ACCESSLIST[mask]
    return 0

  def get_defcon(self):
    wdefcon = wikipedia.Page(self.site,"Template:Wdefcon")
    text = wdefcon.get()
    p = text.find('\n|level=')
    if p  == -1:
      return ("-1","");
    p1 = text.find('\n|info=')
    p2 = text.find('\n|align=')
    if p1 == -1 or p2 == -1:
      return (text[p+8], "Unknown. Template damaged?")
    info = text[p1+7:p2]
    info = re.compile('\n|<!--.*?-->|<.+?>').sub('',info)
    info = re.compile('\[\[[^\|]*\|(.*)\]\]').sub(r'\1',info)
    info = re.compile('\[\[([^\|]*?)\]\]').sub(r'\1',info)
    return (text[p+8],info)

  def do_defcon_check(self,force):
    defcon = self.get_defcon()
    if defcon[0] == self.LASTLEVEL and force == 0:
      return
    self.log("WdefconBot","Wdefcon level is %s and the description is: %s" % defcon)
    self.LASTLEVEL = defcon[0]
    if defcon[0] == -1:
      self.do_say(self.channel,"Error while retrieving level! Template vandalised?")
    else:
      self.do_say(self.channel,"The current WikiDefcon level is %s and the description is: %s" % defcon)

  def main_loop(self):
    try:
      while True:
        buffer = self.IRC.recv(1024)
        if buffer == '':
          break
        msg = buffer.split()

        if msg[0] == "PING":
          self.IRC.send("PONG %s\n" % msg[1])

        if msg[1] == 'PRIVMSG' and msg[2].lower() == NICKNAME.lower() and msg[3].find('VERSION') != -1:
          nick = msg[0][:msg[0].find("!")].lstrip(':')
          print "Replying to VERSION by %s..." % nick
          self.IRC.send('NOTICE %s :\001VERSION Misza\'s WdefconBot 2.0\001\n' % nick)
          if nick == 'freenode-connect':
            self.join(CHANNEL)
          continue

        if msg[1] == 'PRIVMSG':
          self.log(msg[0].lstrip(':'),' '.join(msg[3:]).lstrip(':'))
          command = msg[3].lower().lstrip(':')
          if command == 'force':
            if self.user_access(msg[0]) >= 80:
              self.IRC.send(' '.join(msg[4:])+'\n')
              continue
          if command == 'say':
            if bot.user_access(msg[0]) >= 50:
              self.do_say(self.channel,' '.join(msg[4:]))
              continue
          if command == 'act':
            if bot.user_access(msg[0]) >= 50:
              self.do_ctcp(self.channel,'ACTION ' + ' '.join(msg[4:]))
              continue
          if command == 'msg':
            if bot.user_access(msg[0]) >= 60:
              self.do_say(msg[4],' '.join(msg[5:]))
              continue
          if command == 'ctcp':
            if bot.user_access(msg[0]) >= 60:
              self.do_ctcp(msg[4],' '.join(msg[5:]))
              continue
          if command == 'quit':
            if self.user_access(msg[0]) >= 0:
              self.IRC.send("PART %s :Bye!\n" % CHANNEL)
              self.IRC.send("QUIT\n")
              continue

        if msg[1] == 'PRIVMSG' and msg[2] == CHANNEL:
          nick_name = msg[0][:msg[0].find("!")]
          nick = nick_name.lstrip(':')
          command = msg[3].lower().lstrip(':')
          params = ' '.join(msg[4:])
          if command == '!wdefcon' and self.user_access(msg[0]) >= 0:
            self.log(msg[0].lstrip(':'),'!wdefcon '+params)
            if params == '':
              self.do_defcon_check(1)
              continue
            edit = re.match('edit level=([0-5]) info=(.*)',params)
            if edit:
              TIME = time.time()
              if TIME - self.LASTEDITED < EDITINTERVAL*60:
                self.do_say(self.channel,nick +
                    ': I have edited %0.1f minutes ago. I\'m disallowed to edit faster than once every %d minutes.' %
                    ((TIME-self.LASTEDITED)/60, EDITINTERVAL))
                continue
              self.LASTEDITED = TIME
              wdefcon = wikipedia.Page(self.site,TEMPLATEPAGE)
              wikipedia.setAction('Changing level to '+
                  edit.group(1)+' on behalf of IRC user '+nick)
              wdefcon.put('{{subst:User:MiszaBot/Wdefcon template|level=' + 
                  edit.group(1)+'|info='+edit.group(2)+' &mdash;IRC user \'\''+nick+
                  '\'\' ~~~~~|noinclude1=<noinclude>|noinclude2=</noinclude>}}')
              self.do_ctcp(self.channel,
                  'ACTION has set the WikiDefcon level to %s and description to "%s"' % edit.groups())
              continue
            self.do_say(self.channel,nick+
                ': Syntax for editing is: !wdefcon edit level=[0-5] info=<situation description>')
            continue

          if re.match('\[\[User:.*?\]\].*?\[\[Template:Wdefcon\]\].*?".*"',' '.join(msg[3:])):
            self.do_defcon_check(0)
            continue

    finally:
      self.LOGfile.close()
      wikipedia.stopme()


if __name__ == '__main__':
  SERVER       = 'irc.freenode.net'
  PORT         = 6667
  NICKNAME     = 'WdefconBot2'              #Put your bot's nickname
  PASSWORD     = 'XXXXX'                    #Put your NickServ password here
  USERNAME     = 'defcon'
  REALNAME     = 'Misza\'s WdefconBot 2.0'
  CHANNEL      = '#vcn-tech'                #Channel to work in (needs a pgkbot clone to report changes)
  TEMPLATEPAGE = 'Template:Wdefcon'

  ACCESSLIST = {                            #Add users' hostmasks and their access levels (100 being owner)
      '*!*@wikimedia/Misza13': 100
      }                                     #Set a user's access negative to make the bot ignore him

  EDITINTERVAL = 5                          #Minimal timespan (in minutes) between edits

  bot = WdefconBot()
  bot.irc_conn(SERVER,PORT)
  bot.login(NICKNAME,PASSWORD,USERNAME,REALNAME)
  bot.join(CHANNEL)
  bot.main_loop()