Read and send news from within mIRC
/whatis ?
ircNews is a small irc script designed for mIRC that retrieves headlines from some Quake news sites, and prints them back in your mIRC window. No need to launch your internet browser to check if there is something new !
At version 1.2, news are grabbed from :
· French Frag Factory, news and columns (french)
· Quake FR (french)
· No Frag (french)
· Quad Denied (french)
· Bunkland (french, or something similar)
· Quakenation (english)
· Challenge FR (english)
· Challenge UK (english)
· Challenge DE (english)
· Challenge EU (english)
· Gunpower (english)
/whatmore ?
Another cool feature of this script gives you the ability to send email to one of those websites. Got a scoop to share ? No news posters online ? Too lazy to launch Outlook ? Fine :)
Just fill in a small dialog box, click ok, that's it : an email has been sent to news posters from the site you wish to inform.
/install
· Download the script
· Unzip its file ircNews.mrc in your mIRC directory
· In mIRC, type : /load -rs ircNews.mrc
· Clic in the channel window, and try the "ircNews" menu :)
/misc
Another nice feature is the online checking for a new version of this script. If I ever enhance it, or add more news sites, you will see it clicking on "Check for new versions".
/faq
· It doesn't work !! I did what you did and it says <!--#insert error name --> ?!
Yeah right. Sure. My fault. Sorry.
· Why does it connect to *your* site to get *this* site headlines ?
I'm new at irc scripting (hey, this is my first try :) so the script itself is rather poor. Plus, from what I've understood, mIRC scripting sucks. However, it connects to a cgi Perl script on my site, that does all the job :)
· Can you add this and that feature ?
Maybe not, I'm lazy. Give a try anyway, suggest me :)
· Can you add more quake sites ?
Maybe not, I'm awfully lazy. If you are a webmaster and wishes to have your site read by this script, give a try, contact me, give me our news page URL and the location of a generated headlines file.
· Can you add Counter Strike sites ?
I'd rather cut my hands.
· Can I rip your script to do something better ?
d0n't j00 b1tch !! I mean... well, sure. If it's cool, send it to me, I'd appreciate having a look at it
· Quoi la baise homme, cette page est en poken ?
Yes, for ze estrangers zat savent pas causer français. Garde frais, homme.
What are you waiting for ?? Download it !
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