community.general.irc – Send a message to an IRC channel or a nick

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 2.5.1).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.irc.

Synopsis

• Send a message to an IRC channel or a nick. This is a very simplistic implementation.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

• socket

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
channel string		Channel name. One of nick_to or channel needs to be set. When both are set, the message will be sent to both of them.
color string	Choices: none ← white black blue green red brown purple orange yellow light_green teal light_cyan light_blue pink gray light_gray	Text color for the message. ("none" is a valid option in 1.6 or later, in 1.6 and prior, the default color is black, not "none"). Added 11 more colors in version 2.0. aliases: colour
key string		Channel key
msg string / required		The message body.
nick string	Default: "ansible"	Nickname to send the message from. May be shortened, depending on server's NICKLEN setting.
nick_to list / elements=string		A list of nicknames to send the message to. One of nick_to or channel needs to be set. When both are defined, the message will be sent to both of them.
part boolean	Choices: no yes ←	Designates whether user should part from channel after sending message or not. Useful for when using a faux bot and not wanting join/parts between messages.
passwd string		Server password
port integer	Default: 6667	IRC server port number
server string	Default: "localhost"	IRC server name/address
style string	Choices: bold underline reverse italic none ←	Text style for the message. Note italic does not work on some clients
timeout integer	Default: 30	Timeout to use while waiting for successful registration and join messages, this is to prevent an endless loop
topic string		Set the channel topic
use_ssl boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Designates whether TLS/SSL should be used when connecting to the IRC server

Examples

- name: Send a message to an IRC channel from nick ansible
  community.general.irc:
    server: irc.example.net
    channel: #t1
    msg: Hello world

- name: Send a message to an IRC channel
  local_action:
    module: irc
    port: 6669
    server: irc.example.net
    channel: #t1
    msg: 'All finished at {{ ansible_date_time.iso8601 }}'
    color: red
    nick: ansibleIRC

- name: Send a message to an IRC channel
  local_action:
    module: irc
    port: 6669
    server: irc.example.net
    channel: #t1
    nick_to:
      - nick1
      - nick2
    msg: 'All finished at {{ ansible_date_time.iso8601 }}'
    color: red
    nick: ansibleIRC

Authors

• Jan-Piet Mens (@jpmens)

• Matt Martz (@sivel)