irc-channels

Channel features for irc-connect.

var channels = require('irc-channels');
var irc = require("irc-connect");

irc.connect('irc.freenode.net')
	.use(irc.pong, channels)
	.on('welcome', function (msg) {
		console.log(msg);

		this.join('#node.js', function(channel){

			channel.on('data', function (event) {
				console.log(JSON.stringify(event));
			});

			console.log(channel.topic);
			channel.msg('I got https://npmjs.org/package/irc-channels working!');
		})
	})
;

The channel object

It is an EventEmitter with some extras.

channel.send(text[,text]...)

A proxy to irc-connect's send() function; It sends the text followed by a \n.

channel.name

Gets the name of the channel.

channel.msg(text)

Sends a PRIVMSG to the channel.

channel.part()

Leave the channel.

channel.topic

Gets current topic of the channel. Returns an object.

console.log(JSON.stringify(channel.topic, null, 2));
//{
//  "message": "Hello irc-connect ppl",
//  "by": "[email protected]",
//  "at": "1379547726"
//}

channel.names

Gets and Array of the current channel members. The list is updated when QUIT | JOIN | PART happen.

Events

The channel will emit the following channel specific events:

Event:'JOIN'

Event:'PART'

Event:'KICK'

Event:'PRIVMSG'

Event:'TOPIC'

Event:'QUIT'

Event:'names'

Emitted anytime the names list has been parsed for this channel.

license

MIT