Integrating Weechat IRC client with Facebook via Bitlbee, Freenode and Gitter using a VPS and Tmux.

004-snippets.sh

# Integrating Weechat IRC client with Facebook via Bitlbee, Freenode and Gitter using a VPS and Tmux.

# Installing Weechat and Bitlbee.
$ sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://p80.pool.sks-keyservers.net:80 --recv-keys 11E9DE8848F2B65222AA75B8D1820DB22A11534E
$ sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https
$ echo "deb https://weechat.org/ubuntu bionic main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/weechat.list
$ echo "deb-src https://weechat.org/ubuntu bionic main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/weechat.list
$ echo "deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/jgeboski/xUbuntu_18.04 ./" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/weechat.list
$ echo "deb http://code.bitlbee.org/debian/master/bionic/amd64/ ./" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/weechat.list

$ wget -O- https://code.bitlbee.org/debian/release.key | sudo apt-key add -
$ wget -O- https://jgeboski.github.io/obs.key | sudo apt-key add -

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install weechat-curses weechat-plugins weechat-python weechat-perl bitlbee-facebook

# Setting up Bitlbee
$ tmux
$ weechat


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## on weechat
/server add im localhost/6667 -autoconnect
/server add freenode chat.freenode.net/6697 -autoconnect
/server add gitter irc.gitter.im/6697 -autoconnect
### add SSL on freenode and gitter, add token password on gitter
/set irc.server.freenode.ssl on
/set irc.server.gitter.ssl on
/set irc.server.gitter.password ******************************************
/connect im
/connect freenode
/connect gitter


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## on 2. &bitlbee
register <password>
account add facebook <email> <password>
account facebook on

### auto login to facebook
account facebook set auto_connect on
/set irc.server.im.command "/msg &bitlbee identify <password>"

### join fb group chats using the id on the facebook chat link (open facebook chat in browser and fetch the number after the last slash)
chat add facebook <123456789> #some-channel
/join #some-channel

### auto-join chats
channel <channel> set auto_join true

### rename contacts
rename oldnick newnick

### remove away devoices (less clutter)
channel set show_users online,away

###! save bitlbeeconfigs
save

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# register nick on freenode 
# (Ctrl+x until your on the freenode server inside the buffer 1.)
/msg nickserv register your_password your_email_address
### get the command that arrived at your email address and issue it.
### setup auto login on freenode
/set irc.server.freenode.command "/msg nickserv identify Your-Nick Your-Password"


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# setup gitter (Ctrl+x until your on the gitter server inside the buffer 1.)
/nick <your-gitter-user>

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#filter join,part and quit annoying messages
/filter add joinquit * irc_join,irc_part,irc_quit *

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# save general weechat configs and layout
/save
/layout store <layout> #leave <layout> empty for default

# open layout
/layout apply <layout>

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# leave Tmux session open while returning to VPS ssh session
# Ctrl+b , d

# reopen Tmux session after ssh session opened in VPS
$ tmux attach