mwtest

Building a MediaWiki bot in Lua

My environment

• Windows 7 x64
• ZeroBrane + LuaDist
• Lua 5.1.5

As there's no os specific calls or libraries used, I think it could also run well on Linux or Mac. Higher versions of Lua is not tested.

dykupdate

• Set your clock with an internet server (UTC+8)
• Set up your Lua environment and install the dependencies.
• The DYK update code has to run by an admin account (as T:Dyk is cascade protected)

linky

This is a Lua version of linky for QQ using CoolQ Socket API. CoolQ and your client communicates using UDP sockets. Timerwheel is used for sending ClientHello every 5 minutes. Lua-iconv is used for encoding and decoding between GB18030 and UTF-8.

• linky.lua (base QQ bot)
• feed_service.lua (interacts with linky, send feed contents)
• science_data.lua (science articles, no interactions, just write to file)

Patch to copas.lua

As copas only has addthread but no removethread, if some of our requests are irresponsive for a long time, copas will never finish. Then we won't have a clean copas for a second run. The following removeall function could be added to simply removing any threads.

function copas.removeall()
  _reading = newset()
  _writing = newset()
  _sleeping.times = {}
end