Gofer is an notification type of IRC bot which is simple to deploy and super easy to integrate with existing services. It serves two main purposes:
Process messages in IRC channels and execute commands to trigger actions based on pre-defined patterns. A good use case is to look for messages matching #\d+ (for example #1337), look up the title and status in a issue tracker and print the information back in the IRC channel:
user | So I just pushed a fix for #123. bot | #123 [Open]: Server crash when foo (https://issue.tracker/tickets/123) ```
Relay notifications from other services onto IRC via the built in HTTP API. Good use cases for this are to let monitoring systems notify an IRC channel whenever some service status changes, and notify an IRC channel whenever a new ticket is created in the ticket system. Consider the following cURL command:
curl -d “message=CRITICAL: http on somehost.example.com is unavailable - Socket timeout after 10 seconds” https://bot.example.com/channel/ops/privmsg ```
It will produce the following privmsg (regular message) in the IRC channel *#ops*:
``` bash
bot | CRITICAL: http on somehost.example.com is unavailable - Socket timeout after 10 seconds ```
Being written in Go, gofer may be built and distributed as a statically linked binary on most platforms without dependencies.