A bridge between Slack and IRC

Inspiration

This project was inspired by node-slack-irc.

Description

The bridge will listen to messages on the specified Slack channel and all the IRC channels in the configuration file and relay them from one to the other.

Setting up

Run npm install.

Configuration

Slack

In config.json, edit the following values:

• token: the Slack token, from the Bot configuration page
• channel: the Slack channel id

IRC

In config.json, edit the following values:

• server: the IRC server to connect to
• userName: the name that will appear in IRC
• realName: the real name for the bridge
• channels: and array of channels the bridge will connect to
• debug: setting this to true will log messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
• autoConnect: whether the bridge should connect automatically
• autoRejoin: whether the bridge should join the channels automatically
• secure: true or false, depending on the connection type
• port: the port number

Running

node main.js

Commands

General

• !status will print out the current status of the bridge

Usable from IRC

Usable from Slack

• !names will list the online users in the connected IRC channel