Send private CB messages through XChat

As a sequal on my previous CUFP, here's a way to reply to private messages... this chunk is ofcourse based on lhoward's node too... (no XML this time, sorry OeufMayo :) )
Update: Tweaked some Monestary related things... Thanks epoptai

#!/usr/bin/perl

use LWP::UserAgent;
use URI::URL;
use HTTP::Cookies;

IRC::register("Monk Messenger", "0.1", "", "");
IRC::print "\0035:: Loading Monk Messenger ::\003\n";
IRC::add_command_handler("msgmonk", "msg_monk");

sub msg_monk {
    my $message = @_[0];
    $message = substr($message,0,255);
    ($user,$message) = split(/ /,$message,2);
    my $pm_user=''; # Monk alias
    my $pm_password=''; # Monk password
    my $WWWAgent = new LWP::UserAgent();
    my $co=new HTTP::Cookies(file=>'./cookies.dat',autosave=>1,ignore_
+discard=>1);
    $WWWAgent->cookie_jar($co);

    my $url=new URI::URL 'http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl';
    $url->query_form(op => "login",node_id => "16046",user => $pm_user
+,passwd => $pm_password,expires=> "+10y");
    my $WWWRequest = new HTTP::Request 'GET', $url->as_string() ;
    my $WWWResult = $WWWAgent->request($WWWRequest);
    die "Error logging in $WWWResult->code $WWWResult->message" if(!$W
+WWResult->is_success);
    $url=new URI::URL 'http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl';
    $url->query_form(op => 'message',node=>"16046", message=>"/msg $us
+er $message");
    $WWWRequest = new HTTP::Request 'GET', $url->as_string() ;
    $WWWResult = $WWWAgent->request($WWWRequest);
    die "Can't load Monk Messanger $WWWResult->code $WWWResult->messag
+e" if(!$WWWResult->is_success);
    IRC::print "you said $message to $user\n";
    1;
}
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You can put this in your .xchat directory to get automatically loaded on startup...
How this works : /msgmonk <monk> <message> ,like in CB... (Something like "/msgmonk Beatnik hey dude your code sucks" will ofcourse work :-|)

Greetz
Beatnik
... Quidquid perl dictum sit, altum viditur.

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Re: Send private CB messages through XChat by epoptai (Curate) on Apr 16, 2001 at 08:49 UTC
Neat idea. A few FYIs: Requests to perlmonks can be made faster by asking for very small nodes. It's not necessary to use node 109 for login or homenode for /msg (or lastnode_id at all). If a node isn't supplied The Monastery Gates comes back (ouch). The smallest nodes at perlmonks are some empty XML nodes but I usually use the tiny XML xp nodelet at node_id=16046 since it'll probably be there in the future. If you have a saved cookie file login can be skipped, but either needs to use ignore_discard on the cookies: `$co=new HTTP::Cookies(file=>'./cookie',autosave=>1,ignore_discard=>1);` [download] or set an expires param in the login query: `$url->query_form( op => "login", node_id => "16046", expires=> "+10y" user => $pm_user, passwd => $pm_password );` [download] Also, the size limit on /msg is 255 bytes, so $message needs to be counted and truncated before the print to reflect overflow.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Send private CB messages through XChat by Beatnik (Parson) on Apr 16, 2001 at 12:50 UTC
Thanks, I tweaked it :) Greetz Beatnik ... Quidquid perl dictum sit, altum viditur.	[reply]


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