javascriptnode.jsirc

When person joins with nickname IRC

I am making an IRC bot I want to make a thing that whenever someone joins the IRC channel with a specific nickname, it will welcome them and say they're a confirmed channel host user and give them ops. But I have no idea what I could do to do this.

I'm using node.js with the irc library.

I have tried:

bot.addListener("join", function(channel, who) {
    if((who|user|client).(nick|nickname) = "SlimeDiamond", "JS", "Super" { // The things in the brackets separated by the | are what I have tried there.
bot.say("Welcome, " + who + "!"
} else {
return;
});
Solution

  • 1. Compare with == or === not with =

    Your conditions needs to be something like if (who.nickname === "Something")

    2. Use indexOf if you want to check multiple values

    You can't do if (someVariable == "value1", "value2", "value3") : you need to do if (["value1", "value2", "value3"].indexOf(someVariable) !== -1)

    Documentation for indexOf here

    so, so far we have if (["SlimeDiamond", "JS", "Super"].indexOf(who.nickname) !== -1) for the condition

    3. Read the docs

    From the documentation here, the join event can be listened to with a callback that takes these three arguments :

    I didn't test but it seems that your second argument (who) here IS the nickname not an object that contains the nickname. So this should work :

    bot.addListener("join", function(channel, who) {
    if(["SlimeDiamond", "JS", "Super"].indexOf(who) !== -1) {
        bot.say("Welcome, " + who + "!");
    } else {
        return;
    }
});