Technomancy

Sometimes you want to monitor a low activity channel while doing something else. This plugin uses GNOME’s notifications to show you a notification of each message in the channel.

Save this as watch.py and put it in ~/.xchat2/

# Copyright 2007 Rory McCann
# Released under the GNU GPL v3 or later

# Configuration options go here

notification_title = "Message in %(channel)s"
notification_text = "<%(nick)s> %(message)s"

# End of configuration options.

__module_name__ = "WatchChannel"
__module_version__ = "1.0"
__module_description__ = "Watches a channel for new messages"

import xchat, pynotify

# This is empty at the start obviously, but it will contain network name and
# then channel name tuples.
channels_to_watch = set()

def watch_channel(word, word_eol, userdata):
	global channels_to_watch
	channels_to_watch.add((xchat.get_info("network"), xchat.get_info("channel")))
	xchat.prnt("You are now watching %s. You are now watching a total of %d channels" % (xchat.get_info("channel"), len(channels_to_watch)) )
	return xchat.EAT_ALL

def unwatch_channel(word, word_eol, userdata):
	global channels_to_watch
	tuple = (xchat.get_info("network"), xchat.get_info("channel"))
	if tuple in channels_to_watch:
		channels_to_watch.remove(tuple)
		xchat.prnt("You are no longer watching %s" % (xchat.get_info("channel")))
	return xchat.EAT_ALL

def message_recieved(word, word_eol, userdata):
	global channels_to_watch, notification_title, notification_text
	#print "channels to watch:", str(channels_to_watch)
	network, channel = xchat.get_info("network"), xchat.get_info("channel")
	nick, message = word[0], word[1]
	if nick[0:2] == 'x032':
		# Occasionally there are 3 characters at the front, this will remove them. I don't know why they are there.
		nick = nick[3:]
	details = {'channel':channel, 'message':message, 'nick':nick}
	if (network,channel) in channels_to_watch:
		n = pynotify.Notification(notification_title % details, notification_text % details, "file:///usr/share/pixmaps/xchat.png")
		n.show()

	return xchat.EAT_NONE

pynotify.init("Channel watcher")

xchat.hook_command("watch", watch_channel)
xchat.hook_command("unwatch", unwatch_channel)

xchat.hook_print("Your Message", message_recieved)
xchat.hook_print("Channel Message", message_recieved)

print __module_name__ + " version " + __module_version__ + " loaded"

This entry was posted on Thursday, August 23rd, 2007 at 12:16 am and is filed under python, gnome, IRC, libnotify, xchat. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.