irc_connector.py

import socket, threading
class irc(object):
    def __init__(self, nick):
        super(irc, self).__init__()
        self.s = socket.socket()
        self.nick = nick
        self.channel = '##tinyvoxel'
        self.server = 'irc.freenode.net'
        self.oauth = 'ThisIsAPassIPromise'
        self.main()

    def main(self):
        self.connect()
        self.main_loop_thread = threading.Thread(target=self.main_loop)
        self.main_loop_thread.start()

    def encode(self, message):
        return message.encode('utf-8')

    def decode(self, message):
        return message.decode('utf-8')

    def send_message(self, message, to="server"):
        if (to == 'server'):
            msg = self.encode(message + '\r\n')
        elif(to == 'channel'):
            msg = self.encode('PRIVMSG ' + self.channel + ' ' + message + '\r\n')
        self.s.send(msg)
    def get_message(self, raw):
        decoded = self.decode(raw)
        return decoded[decoded.find(self.channel)+len(self.channel) + 2:len(decoded)-2]


    def get_nick(self, raw):
        decoded = self.decode(raw)
        return decoded[1:decoded.find('!')]

    def connect(self):
        self.s.connect((self.server, 6667))
        self.send_message('PASS ' + self.oauth)
        self.send_message('USER ' + self.nick + ' ' + self.nick + ' ' + self.nick + ' :' + self.nick )
        self.send_message('NICK ' + self.nick)
        self.send_message('JOIN ' + self.channel)

        print('connected')

    def main_loop(self):
        while 1:
            self.raw = self.s.recv(1024)
            self.message = self.get_message(self.raw)
            self.author = self.get_nick(self.raw)
            self.message_length = len(self.message)
            self.tmp_msg = {
                'author': self.author,
                'message': self.message
                }
            self.friendly_msg = self.author + '> ' + self.message
            if(b'PING: ' in self.raw):
                self.send_message('PONG: irc.chat.twitch.tv') #Fix this to make it the proper response