I'm currently working on a large scale project part of which requires the use of irc and mailserv search engines or bots...
What I am trying to develop is an irc bot which I can place on a channel and will log until it runs across 2 particular lines of text. It will begin logging at the first flagged line and end logging at the 2nd line. (It will capture everything inbetween) It will then take this captured data and save it to a .txt file in a local directory.
That is the basic feature. If possible I would, atleast in the future advancement, add features that would allow the bot to also grab links (such as telnet and ftp links) and search through the files on the server for the text it is looking for. To do this I would imagine it would first look for all the files with the .c, .cpp, .txt, etc... file extension. Then we would create rules to limit the search by for example if you found a .c file in a gcc directory that is not what it is looking for. Once the search was complete it would then automatically download all the files it flagged and search through the text file for the text it is looking for. Just like before it would find 1st line, 2nd line, copy everything inbetween and save it to a txt file in a local directory. It would then delete all the files it downloaded once it completed searching.
Ideas... Suggestions... development help is what I'm looking for now.
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