scroll/README.md

# scroll

Scroll is full-featured IRC bot that carries a **PENIS PUMP** & will brighten up all the mundane chats in your lame IRC channels with some colorful IRC artwork! Designed to be extremely stable, this bot is sure to stay rock hard & handle itself quite well!

All of the IRC art is loaded directly from the [ircart](https://github.com/ircart/ircart) central repository using the [Github API](https://docs.github.com/en/rest), which means that anytime the repository is updated with new art, you can simply `.ascii sync` & then be able to pump the latest art packs!

Designed to be portable, there is no API key needed, no local art files needed, & no reason to not setup scroll in your channel(s) today!

## Dependencies
* [python](https://www.python.org/)
* [chardet](https://pypi.org/project/chardet/) *(`pip install chardet`)*
* [pillow](https://pypi.org/project/pillow/) *(`pip install pillow`)*

## Commands
| Command                              | Description                                                |
| ------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------- |
| `@scroll`                            | information about scroll                                   |
| `.ascii <name>`                      | play the \<name> art file                                  |
| `.ascii dirs`                        | list of art directories                                    |
| `.ascii img <ur>`                    | convert image \<ur> to art *(experimental, beta status)*   |
| `.ascii list`                        | list of art filenames                                      |
| `.ascii play <url>`                  | play the contents of \<url> *(must be a raw pastebin url)* |
| `.ascii random [dir]`                | play random art, optionally from the [dir] directory only  |
| `.ascii settings`                    | view settings                                              |
| `.ascii settings <setting> <option>` | change \<setting> to \<option>                             |
| `.ascii stop`                        | stop playing art                                           |
| `.ascii sync`                        | sync the ascii database to pump the newest art             |

**NOTE**: You can do `.ascii help` to play the [help.txt](https://github.com/ircart/ircart/blob/master/ircart/doc/help.txt) file in your channel.

**NOTE**: The sync & settings commands are admin only! `admin` is a *nick!user@host* mask defined in [scroll.py](https://github.com/ircart/scroll/blob/master/scroll.py)

## Settings
| Setting          | Type         | Description                                                                                  |
| ---------------- | ------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `flood`          | int or float | delay between each command                                                                   |
| `ignore`         | str          | directories to ignore in `.ascii random` *(comma seperated list, no spaces)*                 |
| `lines`          | int          | max lines outside of #scroll                                                                 |
| `msg`            | int or float | delay between each message sent                                                              |
| `paste`          | boolean      | enable or disable `.ascii play`                                                              |
| `png_brightness` | int or float | increase or decrease brightness for `.ascii img` output                                      |
| `png_contrast`   | int or float | increase or decrease contrast   for `.ascii img` output                                      |
| `png_effect`     | str          | change the effect for `.ascii img` output *(blackwhite, blue, greyscale, invert, or smooth)* |
| `png_palette`    | str          | palette option for `.ascii img` output *(RGB99 or RGB88)*                                    |
| `png_width`      | int          | maximum width for `.ascii img` output                                                        |
| `results`        | int          | max results to return in `.ascii search`                                                     |

**NOTE**: Setting **0** to `png_brightness`, `png_contrast`, or `png_effect` will disable the setting.

## Preview

![](.screens/preview1.png)

![](.screens/preview2.png)

Come pump with us in **#scroll** on [irc.supernets.org](ircs://irc.supernets.org)

## Todo
- git integration to `git clone` the [ircart](https://github.com/ircart/ircart) repository & `git pull` on `.ascii sync` *(Load art files into RAM for faster pumping)*
- `.ascii scroll` command to loop playing random art files *(Stopped with `.ascii stop`)*
- Add arguments to `.ascii img` for contrast, brightness, * effects *(Take them out of self.settings)*
- Setting to auto convert any image link to IRC art *(Emulate link previews like on Discord LOL)*
- `.ascii record` to record lines from the senders nick for uploads *(Stopped with `.ascii stop`)*
- Improve randomness with `.ascii random`
- Fall back to non-utf8 encoding on decoding failure *(Reference: 'bytes' object has no attribute 'encode' on `.ascii putfall`)*
- Convert all art to PNG files for an online gallery & local previews directory
- Possibly add art metadata *(author, tags, etc)* for credits & improved search

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###### Mirrors
[acid.vegas](https://git.acid.vegas/scroll) • [GitHub](https://github.com/ircart/scroll) • [GitLab](https://gitlab.com/ircart/scroll) • [SourceHut](https://git.sr.ht/~acidvegas/scroll) • [SuperNETs](https://git.supernets.org/ircart/scroll)