Neko

Neko – Cross-platform Jabber (XMPP) chatbot written on Java

Features

• Cross-platform, depends on java runtime only
• Encrypted connection using TLS/SSL
• Automatic updates, multithreading
• Full control and bot configuration via Jabber,
  no needed to edit configuration files!
• Jabber conferences administartion (privileges, subject, kick, ban)
• Can use any command as greeting for user, when he joins a conferences (greet, setgreet)
• Japanese Romaji to a Japanese Kana convertion or vice versa (kana, romaji)
• Supports information commands (ping, version, time, vcard, discovery)
• Automatic reconnect to the server when lost connection
• Web search, translation, weather forecast using Google (google, translate, weather)
• Web search for images using Google, Konachan (images, konachan)
• Web search using Bing (bing)
• Simple remote shell (sh), RSS reader (rssrandom), aliases, manual pages for commands
• AIML interpreter (using ProgramD-lite library)
• Supports password protected conferences
• Supports changing avatar on the fly (setavatar)
• Supports sending XHTML message with included images (say)
• Supports regular expressions for searching options and manual pages

Software Requirements

• Java SE Runtime Environment (JRE) or compatible

Installing

• Download an installer and run it:
  $ java -jar neko-x.y.z.jar
• Answer some questions in installation program
• Run bot from directory where it has been installed:
  $ java -jar neko.jar
  or
  $ ./neko
• Answer some questions in bot configuration program
• Add a bot account to your roster

Installing AIML support (optional)

• Download AIML base config pack and extract it to directory where bot is installed
• Simple AIML set is included in the package for testing.
  If you need more AIML sets, you can find some here.
• Feel free to edit self-explaining xml configuration files and AIML database.
• Set commands prefix for commands filtering.
  Send this message to bot for example:
  setoption prefixes /!
  Now commands need to be started with “!” or “/” (!ping for example)

Conditions

Neko is a propietary software. Use at your own risk.
Redistribution, disassembling and modification of
the software without author’s permission is prohibited.
Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Lucky.
All rights reserved.

Some parts are licensed under the Apache License:

Smack API 3.1.0
Copyright (C) 2002-2008 Jive Software.
All rights reserved. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0

Some parts are licensed under the GNU General Public License:

ProgramD-lite
Copyright (C) 2006-2007 Noel Bush.
Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Lucky.
All rights reserved. Licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 3

Downloads

• Neko 0.4.1 installer
• AIML base config pack