irclogger is a simple daemon written in the Python Programming Language utilizing the circuits framework for the sole purpose of logging a set of IRC Channels to disk in the form that something like irclog2html can understand and parse.
From PyPi using pip:
$ pip install irclogger
from source:
$ mkvirtualenv irclogger $ hg clone https://bitbucket.org/prologic/irclogger $ cd irclogger $ pip install -r requirements.txt
To display help:
$ irclogger --help
Usage: irclogger [options] <host> [<port>]
Options:
--version show program's version number and exit
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-d, --daemon Enable daemon mode
-c CHANNELS, --channel=CHANNELS
Channel to join (multiple allowed)
-n NICK, --nick=NICK Nickname to use
-o OUTPUT, --output=OUTPUT
Path to store log files
-p PIDFILE, --pidfile=PIDFILE
Path to store PID file
-v, --verbose Enable verbose debugging mode
To log a single channel:
$ irclogger -c "#mychannel" irc.freenode.net
Note
By default irclogger stores logs in the current working directory.
Use -o/--output to change the location to store log files.
Note
Also note that the default nickname used is your current username
on your system. i.e: $USER. To change this use the -n/--nick
option.