Auto. log IRC chat to website?

[Squintz]

Does anyone know of software to automatically archive IRC Chat logs to a webserver each night? It would be really cool if I could log it to a MediaWiki site but just uploading a plain text log automatically would be good enough for now.

 

[electron]

I hope you aren't wanting this for the #cocoon chat room, as there are plenty of off-topic things discussed that don't belong anywhere on the CT site. If it's for your own project, I still think it is a bad idea, unless you let every member know in advance that everything is being recorded and posted.

 

[Squintz]

It's not for cocoontech. It's for this new www.harfordhackerspace.com club that I am trying to get started. (Another one of my crazy ideas). The problem is that I can not use IRC at work and I want to be able to stay up to date with the discussions. I can use IRC from my blackberry but the connection is spotty when I am at work. So I want to somehow see what is in the chat room with out actually connecting to the IRC server. I understand your point about privacy and I would probably be better off uploading the files in a protected folder.

Do you have a better solution? I don't want to find a way around the IRC rules by using a PHP chat client. I simply want to read what everyone else has said so I can stay up to date.

 

[electron]

Leave your IRC client logged in at home, and use LogMeIn to connect to home (or Remote Desktop, or Team Viewer, etc.).

 

[Squintz]

Same problem... We are not allowed to remote into our home computers from work for security reasons. I have mIRC on at home all the time so I can look at the logs each night. I just thought it would be cool to be able to have them available real time so that if someone asks a question I can log onto my blackberry and respond. The connection on my blackberry is too spotty to rely on it for getting messages though. I'll have to dig around for some php scripts. I'd like to have a read only script so I am never tempted to just respond via a webpage and so that only the webserver has to connect to the chat and my local PC does not have to.

 

[WayneW]

Do they block http://www.mibbit.com/

 

[Squintz]

Yup, it says blocked due to "Web Chat"

 

[Chakara]

While I'd prefer to not see IRC chats publicly posted on the web - you have to assume that it will be as a participant....

-Chak

 

[astro]

I hope you aren't wanting this for the #cocoon chat room, as there are plenty of off-topic things discussed that don't belong anywhere on the CT site. If it's for your own project, I still think it is a bad idea, unless you let every member know in advance that everything is being recorded and posted.

just setup a 'bot' eggdrop or energy mech i think they were called. havent used a bot in like 10 years

 

[twilo123]

cocoontech would have to switch but if php based chat is what is required then maybe they will consider this

http://www.phpfreechat.net/

they may actually have a plugin for irc. not sure on that one. you'd have to check.

 

[electron]

Could always install cgi::irc, that's something I have configured for CT as well (the HTML version linked above the JAVA chat applet). Should work with most proxies/firewalls since it's just a regular HTTP connection.

 

[Squintz]

Thanks for all the suggestions. After reconsideration I have decided not to log the chats. I realised that it would really be a privacy issue because sometimes people accidentally type their passwords into the chat room or type something they don't want someone else to see when it was intended for someone elses eyes.

 

[Steve]

If you are concerned about missing questions or something why don't you just have a mIRC script or something text or email you stuff if IRC is blocked. Just have people put your name or something int he line so the script can key on it or something. And if its critical to reply I imagine you could also send an email and have a script to pop it back into mIRC?