Fix html entities when echoing slack messages to IRC

Change user messages on IRC to have <username> instead of username:

Author: Jaykul

lib/bot.js

@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ var _ = require('underscore');
 var IRC = require('irc');
 var SlackClient = require('slack-client');
 var Log = require('log');
+var Entities = require('html-entities').XmlEntities;
+
 
 /**
  * IRC Bot for syncing messages from IRC to Slack
@@ -23,6 +25,7 @@ var Bot = function (config) {
     });
 
     this.logger = new Log(process.env.SLACK_LOG_LEVEL || 'info');
+    this.entities = new Entities();
     // default node-irc options
     // (@see https://github.com/martynsmith/node-irc/blob/0.3.x/lib/irc.js)
     this.irc = {
@@ -244,6 +247,8 @@ Bot.prototype.ircSpeak = function (channel, message, username) {
     if(!self.config.highlight) {
         username = username.replace(/^(.)/, '$1\u200C')
     }
+    username = "<" + username + "> "
+    message = self.entities.decode(message)
 
     // IRC max length is 512, minus the CR LF and other headers ... 
     //  In practice, it looks like this:
@@ -255,7 +260,7 @@ Bot.prototype.ircSpeak = function (channel, message, username) {
     // 497 = 510 - 13
 
     maxLineLength = 479 - (self.hostmask.length + self.client.nick.length + self.client.hostMask.length)
-    maxLineLength -= (channel.length + username.length + 2)
+    maxLineLength -= (channel.length + username.length + 3)
 
     message.split(/\s*[\r\n]+\s*/).forEach(function(msg) {
         while (msg.length > maxLineLength) {
@@ -264,11 +269,11 @@ Bot.prototype.ircSpeak = function (channel, message, username) {
             line = msg.slice(0, length)
             msg = msg.slice(length).trim()
 
-            self.logger.info('IRC(' + line.length + ')> ' + channel + ": " + username + ': ' + line);
-            self.client.say(channel, username + ": " + line);
+            self.logger.debug('IRC(' + line.length + ')> #' + channel + " " + username + line);
+            self.client.say(channel, username + line);
         }
-            self.logger.info('IRC> ' + channel + ": " + username + ': ' + msg);
-            self.client.say(channel, username + ": " + msg);
+            self.logger.debug('IRC> #' + channel + " " + username + msg);
+            self.client.say(channel, username + msg);
     });
 };
 

package.json

@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@
     "underscore": "^1.7.0",
     "irc": "~0.3.6",
     "slack-client": "~1.3.1",
-    "log": "~1.4.0"
+    "log": "~1.4.0",
+    "html-entities": "~1.1.2"
   },
   "devDependencies": {},
   "bin": {