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stage: Create
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group: Ecosystem
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info: To determine the technical writer assigned to the Stage/Group associated with this page, see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/ux/technical-writing/#assignments
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# Irker IRC Gateway **(FREE)**
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GitLab provides a way to push update messages to an Irker server. When
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configured, pushes to a project trigger the service to send data directly
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to the Irker server.
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See the [project homepage](https://gitlab.com/esr/irker) for further information.
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## Needed setup
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You first need an Irker daemon. You can download the Irker code
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[from its repository](https://gitlab.com/esr/irker):
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```shell
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git clone https://gitlab.com/esr/irker.git
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```
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Once you have downloaded the code, you can run the Python script named `irkerd`.
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This script is the gateway script, it acts both as an IRC client, for sending
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messages to an IRC server, and as a TCP server, for receiving messages
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from the GitLab service.
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If the Irker server runs on the same machine, you are done. If not, you
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need to follow the first steps of the next section.
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## Complete these steps in GitLab
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1. Navigate to the project you want to configure for notifications.
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1. Navigate to the [Integrations page](overview.md#accessing-integrations)
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1. Click "Irker".
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1. Ensure that the **Active** toggle is enabled.
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1. Enter the server host address where `irkerd` runs (defaults to `localhost`)
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in the `Server host` field on the Web page
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1. Enter the server port of `irkerd` (e.g. defaults to 6659) in the
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`Server port` field on the Web page.
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1. Optional: if `Default IRC URI` is set, it has to be in the format
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`irc[s]://domain.name` and is prepended to each and every channel provided
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by the user which is not a full URI.
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1. Specify the recipients (e.g. #channel1, user1, etc.)
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1. Save or optionally click "Test Settings".
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## Note on Irker recipients
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Irker accepts channel names of the form `chan` and `#chan`, both for the
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`#chan` channel. If you want to send messages in query, you need to add
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`,isnick` after the channel name, in this form: `Aorimn,isnick`. In this latter
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case, `Aorimn` is treated as a nick and no more as a channel name.
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Irker can also join password-protected channels. Users need to append
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`?key=thesecretpassword` to the channel name. When using this feature remember to
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**not** put the `#` sign in front of the channel name; failing to do so
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results in Irker joining a channel literally named `#chan?key=password` henceforth
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leaking the channel key through the `/whois` IRC command (depending on IRC server
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configuration). This is due to a long standing Irker bug.
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