purple/answerscripts.sh

   1 #!/bin/sh
   2
   3 #       This file is called for every message received by libpurple clients (pidgin,finch,...)
   4         #       Env variables PURPLE_MSG and PURPLE_FROM are passed to this script
   5                 #       Which means you should mind security (don't let attackers to execute their messages)
   6         #       Each line of output is sent as reply to that message
   7         #       You can try to rewrite this script in PERL or C for better performance
   8         #       This script have .exe suffix as i hope it can be eventualy replaced by some binary on windows
   9
  10 #       Basic example can look like this:
  11         #       echo "<$PURPLE_FROM> $PURPLE_MSG";
  12
  13 #       There are lot of hacks that you can do with this simple framework if you know some scripting. eg.:
  14         #       Forward your instant messages to email, SMS gateway, text-to-speach (eg. espeak) or something...
  15         #       Smart auto-replying messages based on regular expressions
  16         #       Remote control your music player (or anything else on your computer) using instant messages
  17         #       Simple IRC/Jabber/ICQ bot (accepts PM only)
  18         #       Providing some service (Searching web, Weather info, System status, RPG game...)
  19         #       BackDoor (even unintentional one - you've been warned)
  20         #       Loging and analyzing messages
  21         #       Connect IM with Arduino
  22         #       Annoy everyone with spam (and probably get banned everywhere)
  23         #       Anything else that you can imagine...
  24
  25 #       Maybe you will want to add more hooks for receiving messages, so i've made following script
  26         #       It just executes all +x files in answerscripts.d directory so you should do your magic there
  27         #       To disable some of those scripts just use chmod -x script
  28
  29 dir="$(dirname "$0")"/answerscripts.d
  30 if test -d "$dir"; then
  31         for script in "$dir"/*; do
  32                 test -x "$script" && "$script"
  33         done
  34 fi
  35