this is an irc bot that previews tweets whenever a link to a tweet is posted in a channel

if you have img2irc installed, or use the included docker container, it can optionally show the profile picture of the user

edit config.json.example, the irc and twitter sections are self-explanatory

note: you must do this first before proceding!

docker-compose up -d

git clone https://github.com/anatolybazarov/img2irc

cd img2irc && cargo build --release

sudo cp target/release/img2irc /usr/local/bin

sudo npm install -g npx

sudo npm install -g tsx

npx tsx index.ts

the bot.ansi section controls the arguments which will be sent to img2irc, and correspond to the command-line arguments which img2irc takes

for information about those arguments, see the usage details here

the default settings are

        "ansi": {
            "width": 10,
            "contrast": 30
        },

where width is the width of the profile picture, and contrast increases the contrast by 30 (max: 255)

for flags which do not take any arguments, simply set the value to true, e.g.,

        "ansi": {
            "width": 10,
            "contrast": 30,
            "sharpen": true
        },

you can change the colour of the display name, username, date, tweet text, retweets and likes

        "colors": {
            "name": "",
            "user": "",
            "date": "14",
            "text": "",
            "retweets": "09",
            "likes": "04"
        },

leaving the field blank means no explicit colour. here are the mirc colour codes

if the colour code is a single digit, you should pad it with a leading zero (e.g., 09 instead of 9)

you can modify which symbols to use for the retweets and likes as well

        "symbols": {
            "retweets": "↻",
            "likes": "❤"
        }