Tutorials

The key feature of Sopel is its plugin system: everything Sopel does is through a plugin. Combining some basic Python knowledge with reading Sopel’s documentation, you can write a plugin too!

These tutorials will guide and help you to begin your journey as a plugin author, i.e. someone who can write plugins for Sopel. Not every plugin is easy however, and you will probably need to hone your Python skills, learn more about the IRC protocol, and learn more about software programming in general. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves; you are here for the basics.

• Your first plugin
• Playing with commands
• Configuration and plugin setup

Requirements

Before you can dive into these tutorials, you will need the following:

• to install and run Sopel on your development environment

• to have write access to Sopel’s configuration and plugin directory

• a beginner level in Python (e.g. how to write a function, what is a variable, how to perform string formatting, how to access an object’s attributes, how to import a module, etc.)

Since you’ll be running Sopel, we invite you to create a configuration file that connects to a friendly IRC server and joins a private testing channel. That way, when you restart your bot or run your command for the hundredth time, you won’t spam other users.