irc - Send a message to an IRC channel

Author:Jan-Piet Mens, Matt Martz

Synopsis

New in version 1.2.

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

Options

parameter	required	default	choices	comments
channel	yes			Channel name
color	no	none	none yellow red green blue black	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").
key	no			Channel key (added in Ansible 1.7)
msg	yes			The message body.
nick	no	ansible		Nickname. May be shortened, depending on server's NICKLEN setting.
passwd	no			Server password
port	no	6667		IRC server port number
server	no	localhost		IRC server name/address
timeout	no	30		Timeout to use while waiting for successful registration and join messages, this is to prevent an endless loop (added in Ansible 1.5)

Note

Requires socket

Examples

- irc: server=irc.example.net channel="#t1" msg="Hello world"

- local_action: irc port=6669
                channel="#t1"
                msg="All finished at {{ ansible_date_time.iso8601 }}"
                color=red
                nick=ansibleIRC