Online Status

Cheater · Senior Member Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 236

Sure there are different image online status things for aim/msn that use HTML. But since (at least on aim not sure about msn) you can't send images they don't do any good. An idea I had was to change it so that instead of an online offline image, it uses text. The command would work like this:
User: !onlinestatus person22
Bot: person22 is offline

User: !onlinestatus guy33
Bot: guy33 is online

Once again, juggernaut is great, but other bots would do.

malefactor · Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 1:23 am Post subject:

there is a topic on this board about that. My AIM bot uses code from that topic (with slight modifaction) to check if people are online.

Cheater · Senior Member Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 236

I went through a ton of threads. I couldn't find it. Could you post a link?

malefactor · Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 1:32 am Post subject:

i don't know what the url is for the topic on the new forum...
but did a search on the old forum and here it is

http://www.bot-depot.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=581&hl=status

Cheater · Senior Member Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 236

That seems as if it is for people on your buddy list only. My bot already shows when people sign on and off for my buddy list. I need a way to get the online status of anyone through a command

darkmonkey · Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 9:42 am Post subject:

Find the data for image1.gif in text format (open in notepad), and the same for image2.gif. Then, do a simple GET to the onlinestatus.org servers to get the image, and if the image *includes* the same data as the online image, output that they're online. ETC.

Cheater · Senior Member Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 236

ok, you completly lost me there dm.

darkmonkey · Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 2:36 pm Post subject:

Cheater · Senior Member Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 236

Would that work for aim as well?

darkmonkey · Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 8:31 pm Post subject:

Yes. Obviously you'll have to edit the URLs, and do a more complicated IF statement, as the image data won't work well in a string, unless it's BINMODE'd.

Cer · Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 11:34 pm Post subject:

Probably a more efficient way of doing this would be to use the buddylist...

Add the screenname of the one you're checking in a hashref (maybe put other info as far as who called the command, etc.)...

$chaos->{system}->{online_checker}->{$sn} = $client;

And then add it to your buddylist, and in your buddy_in handler, see if that big long hashref exists ($sn being the target's screenname), and so if that guy signs on, you know he's online, you can delete him from the bot's buddylist and send a message back to $client (which is the value of that hashref).

darkmonkey · Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 11:52 am Post subject:

Cheater · Senior Member Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 236

DM, in Cer's you are adding the name of the person to check to the buddy list. So it would work for anyone. In that quote, I meant that I didn't want to have to add everyone by hand to the buddy list. I think cer's is what I need.

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