Feature parity comparison

[gdude2002]

This is a checklist ticket for things that need to be done so that we can reach feature parity with other bots. Note that we won't necessarily be doing all these things; this is more of a list of things those bots do that we may consider doing ourselves.

Please note that no code copying from the source of other bots will be permitted - Not only may this break licenses, the code will likely not fit into our asynchronous setup or plugin mechanics. Please also be courteous to the developers of other bots - and remember that this ticket is born out of necessity and requests by our userbase, not out of spite or malice.

Things left to consider

CloudBot (IRC, asyncio-based so no Python 2 support)

• Amazon URL handler - CloudBot scrapes the page but we can surely do better than that
• Attacks - LARTs, flirts, slaps, kills, etc - Probably part of a roulette rewrite?
• Bing search - Both normal and image
• Channel management - Modes, bans, etc
• Chat history feature - Can do much better than CloudBot's little DB
• Cleverbot/Cloudbot/etc support (I've done this before, shouldn't be hard)
• Coin flips and random choices (Add to dice plugin?)
• Encyclopaedia Dramatica lookup
• Etymology lookup via Wordnik (A possible addition to the Wordnik plugin)
• Fishbans support
• Foods generator (Unlikely, this one)
• Fortunes (Planned for some time now)
• Google search - get suggested phrases
• Google Books search
• Google Image search
• Google long URL fixing (EG, when someone links to a search result)
• Google Maps search and time lookups
• Google Safe Browsing List lookup
• Help system (Been in planning for a while now)
• Horoscope retrieval
• Ignore system - They wrote an all-in-one sieve, but we have no need for that
• IMDB URL handler and lookup
• Imgur search
• Karma (Karma plugin #6)
• Metacritic lookup
• Minecraft user and UUID lookup
• Minecraft Wiki search
• Name generator (For fun)
• Newegg URL handler and lookup
• Notes system (Personal, not memos)
• Octopart Search
• Permissions management (On hold, needs discussion)
• Pig-latin translator - Cloudbot uses NLTK, but is this necessary?
• Ping command - akin to the windows/unix utility
• Polls
• Propper chat logging to PISG-compatible files (Already planned)
• Python evals (I do have a PoC REPL plugin but it's not safe) - Cloudbot does this using eval.appspot.com, which is basically Google's AppEngine playground
• Quotes system (Planned for some time now)
• Random stories from FML and MLIA
• Recipe search and dinner suggestions - Cloudbot uses cookstr and some obscene funnies
• Reddit URL handler and lookup, incl. random posts from subreddit
• Reminders system
• Retrieve GitHub issue info via command (Seems unnecessary but could be handy)
• RottenTomatoes lookup
• Sed
• Snopes lookup
• Soundcloud URL handler and lookup
• Speedtest.net result URL handler
• Spell checker
• Spotify URL handler and lookup
• Steam store URL handler and game search
• Steam community URL handler and steamID retrieval
• SteamDB account worth calculator
• Text flipper - To upside-down text
• TVDB lookups - Latest episode, next episode
• Twitch URL handler and channel lookup
• Twitter URL handler, latest/nth tweet and user lookup
• Vimeo URL handler
• Voat URL handler and lookup, incl. random posts from subvoat
• Weather lookups via Wunderground
• WHOIS tools
• Wikipedia lookup
• Wordnik - more API exposure
• "Would you rather" questions from RRRather.com
• Yahoo stocks lookup

Things that are done

CloudBot (IRC, asyncio-based so no Python 2 support)

• 8ball (Already handled by the 8ball plugin)
• Brainfuck (Already handled by the brainfuck plugin)
• Crypto-currency conversions (Already handled by the money plugin)
• CTCP (Already handled in the IRC protocol and events)
• Factoids (Already handled in the factoids plugin)
• GeoIP (Already handled by the geoip plugin, needs a rewrite though)
• Google Translate (Already handled by the translate plugin, but flaky)
• Last.FM support (Already handled by the lastfm plugin)
  • Could expand to top tracks, top artists, and comparisons, once the API docs are back online
• Memos
• Minecraft server ping and Mojang status (Already handled in minecraft plugin)
• Page checker - online/offline (Just use the URL parser, lol)
• UrbanDictionary lookup (Already handled in urbandictionary plugin, could do with specifying definition ID though)
• URL shorteners (Already handled in URLs plugin, and extendable)
• User tracking (Already handled in all protocols)
• W3C markup validation (Already handled in w3c plugin)
• Wolfram|Alpha lookup (Already handled in wolfram plugin, needs a rewrite though)
• XKCD (Already handled in xkcd plugin)
• YouTube URL handler (Already handled in URL-tools plugin)

Things I'm not really interested in

CloudBot (IRC, asyncio-based so no Python 2 support)

• Base64-based "cyphers"
• Command to pastebin the contents of a plugin's code file
• Linux kernel version listings
• LMGTFY link creation (Not useful at all)
• ORLYDB lookup (It's been down for a hell of a long time)
• Profiler using pympler, objgraph, thread dumps, etc (For now)
• "Random" password generator (Cloudbot's is very insecure and should not be used for serious passwords)