The script doesn't seem to read PRIVMSG

[helpshae]

Some IRC like Ustream send all messages in a channel as PRIVMSG and the script doesn't seem to recognize them. I'm not too familiar with writing plugins for xchat and my python is a little rusty, but I added a few lines and it works for ustream's irc. It seems there must be a more elegant way of doing this, but for now this works. Thanks for releasing a great plugin, it is exactly what I was looking for! If it's not appropriate to post the code in a bug report, then please let me know. I'm very new to launch pad.

I added the following to speak_msg():
nick = work[0]
if ':' in nick:
  nicka = re.match(r":(.*?)!", nick)
  nick = nicka.group(1)
......
msg = msg.rstrip('^')
if 'PRIVMSG' in msg:
  msg = msg.replace ('PRIVMSG', '')
  msga = re.match(r"^.*?:(.*)$", msg)
  msg = msga.group(1)

to the very end of the script:
xchat.hook_print('Channel Message', speak_message)
xchat.hook_server('PRIVMSG', speak_message)

[motters (fuzzgun)]

Do you have any particular Ustream channels as examples. Connecting XChat2 to Ustream as in these instructions

  http://youtu.be/QXm6jWhHx90

I'm unable to reproduce the problem (don't see any PRIVMSG prefix).

[helpshae (helpshae)]

Sorry for the delayed response.

The video that you linked too does accurately demonstrate how I use xchat to connect to ustream. As far as the PRIVMSG, that was found during the development of a chat-bot side project. Early in the development of the bot, I had it dumping the raw data it received from the chat room. Most every chat packet that comes from ustream's IRC is formatted as follows:

:chatnickname!<email address hidden> PRIVMSG #channel Hello everyone I said something in a ustream channel.

This is the same information that the xchat.server command receives and what the regex filters to produce the nick and msg.

To get a clearer picture, you can use wireshark to capture a ustream chat conversation and examine the protocol structure.

I hope this helps!

(also, just for further info)
when sending a message, my chatbot sends either "PRIVMSG #ustreamchannel something to say to channel" or "PRIVMSG chatnickname something private to say to only one person"

[helpshae (helpshae)]

I joined a couple of channels on irc.freenode.net and confirmed that the original plugin works fine for them. However, for #shine1019 or any other ustream irc channel I tried, it didn't appear to work.

The wireshark dump of the freenode chat reveals the same protocol structure I described for ustream. However, I did leave out a colon between the #channel and the message in my previous post. The corrected structures is as follows:

:nick!<email address hidden> PRIVMSG #channel :message posted to everyone

However, after applying the fix I originally described, and relaunching xchat, the freenode channels are repeated. To fix this, I commented out the original hook so they appear as follows:

#xchat.hook_print('Channel Message', speak_message)
xchat.hook_server('PRIVMSG', speak_message)

Now, both freenode and ustream are read only once. As I mentioned earlier, there must be a better way of parsing the data in the speak_message function, but I haven't had a chance to brush up on my python. I'm going to test on geekshed and other irc hosts tomorrow.

Thanks again, and I hope this helps!

[motters (fuzzgun)]

The modified version seems to work on my system. It has been committed in revision 11.