#!/usr/bin/env python """ irker - a simple IRC multiplexer daemon Takes JSON objects of the form {'channel':<channel-url>, 'privmsg':<text>} and relays messages to IRC channels. Run this as a daemon in order to maintain stateful connections to IRC servers; this will allow it to respond to server pings and minimize join/leave traffic. Requires Python 2.6. TO-DO: some servers have a limit of 20 channels per server connection. TO-DO: Register the port? TO-DO: Multiple irkers could try to use the same nick """ # These things might need tuning HOST = "localhost" PORT = 4747 TTL = (3 * 60 * 60) # Connection time to live in seconds # No user-serviceable parts below this line import os, sys, json, irclib, exceptions, getopt, urlparse, time import threading, Queue, SocketServer class SessionException(exceptions.Exception): def __init__(self, message): exceptions.Exception.__init__(self) self.message = message class Session(): "IRC session and message queue processing." count = 0 def __init__(self, irker, url): self.irker = irker self.url = url self.server = None # Server connection setup parsed = urlparse.urlparse(url) host, sep, port = parsed.netloc.partition(':') if not port: port = 6667 self.servername = host self.channel = parsed.path.lstrip('/') self.port = int(port) Session.count += 1 # The consumer thread self.queue = Queue.Queue() self.thread = threading.Thread(target=self.dequeue) self.thread.daemon = True self.thread.start() def enqueue(self, message): "Enque a message for transmission." self.queue.put(message) def dequeue(self): "Try to ship pending messages from the queue." while True: # We want to be kind to the IRC servers and not hold unused # sockets open forever, so they have a time-to-live. The # loop is coded this particular way so that we can drop # the actual server connection when its time-to-live # expires, then reconnect and resume transmission if the # queue fills up again. if not self.server: self.server = self.irker.irc.server() self.irker.debug(1, "TTL bump (connection) at %s" % time.asctime()) self.last_active = time.time() self.server.connect(self.servername, self.port, self.name()) elif self.queue.empty(): if time.time() > self.last_active + TTL: self.irker.debug(1, "timing out inactive connection at %s" % time.asctime()) self.server.part("#" + self.channel) self.server = None break else: message = self.queue.get() self.server.join("#" + self.channel) self.server.privmsg("#" + self.channel, message) self.last_active = time.time() self.irker.debug(1, "TTL bump (transmission) at %s" % time.asctime()) self.queue.task_done() def name(self): "Generate a unique name for this session." return "irker%03d" % Session.count def await(self): "Block until processing of all queued messages is done." self.queue.join() class Irker: "Persistent IRC multiplexer." def __init__(self, debuglevel=0): self.debuglevel = debuglevel self.irc = irclib.IRC(debuglevel=self.debuglevel-1) thread = threading.Thread(target=self.irc.process_forever) self.irc._thread = thread thread.daemon = True thread.start() self.sessions = {} def logerr(self, errmsg): "Log a processing error." sys.stderr.write("irker: " + errmsg + "\n") def debug(self, level, errmsg): "Debugging information." if self.debuglevel >= level: sys.stderr.write("irker[%d]: %s\n" % (self.debuglevel, errmsg)) def handle(self, line): "Perform a JSON relay request." try: request = json.loads(line.strip()) if "channel" not in request or "privmsg" not in request: self.logerr("ill-formed reqest") else: channel = request['channel'] message = request['privmsg'] if channel not in self.sessions: self.sessions[channel] = Session(self, channel) self.sessions[channel].enqueue(message) except ValueError: self.logerr("can't recognize JSON on input.") def terminate(self): "Ship all pending messages before terminating." for session in self.sessions.values(): session.await() class MyTCPHandler(SocketServer.StreamRequestHandler): def handle(self): while True: irker.handle(self.rfile.readline().strip()) if __name__ == '__main__': host = HOST port = PORT debuglevel = 0 (options, arguments) = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], "d:p:") for (opt, val) in options: if opt == '-d': debuglevel = int(val) elif opt == '-p': port = int(val) irker = Irker(debuglevel=debuglevel) server = SocketServer.TCPServer((host, port), MyTCPHandler) try: server.serve_forever() except KeyboardInterrupt: pass # end