pianobar event script to make rbot send currently playing song to an IRC channel

pianobar_event.rb

#!/usr/bin/ruby

# pianobar event script to make rbot send currently playing song to an IRC
# channel

# Copyright (c) 2010
# Matthew M. Boedicker <matthewm@boedicker.org>

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# for setting up rbot-remote see rbot/bin/rbot-remote

# add this script to ~/.config/pianobar/config by adding
# event_command = /home/mmb/.config/pianobar/pianobar_event.rb

# make sure these are quoted correctly for popen
rbot_remote = '/home/mmb/src/rbot/bin/rbot-remote'
rbot_user = 'remote'
rbot_password = 'secret'
channel = '#current'

event = ARGV.first

if event == 'songstart'
  d = {}

  STDIN.each_line { |line| d.store(*line.chomp.split('=', 2)) }

  IO.popen("#{rbot_remote} -u #{rbot_user} -p #{rbot_password} -d '#{channel}'",
    'w') do |p|
    p.write("now playing \"#{d['title']}\" by \"#{d['artist']}\"")
  end

end