Taking a look at Omegle

[odomobo]

Hi All,

First, the code: http://joshodom.net/misc/omegle_hal.pl

I am running it on perl v5.8.8.

It's about as kludgy as any of my code, as of late. If you notice any obvious errors or inefficiencies, they were probably accidental on my part, since I'm not all that proficient with perl or any of the modules I was using.

The way it works is as follows: there's a main thread and an event-polling thread. I have a separate polling thread because requesting the events page blocks until it has an event. The main thread opens a new chat, and waits for the events thread to get a message (which gets placed in the shared scalar $pending_messages). Once it receives a message, the main thread waits a couple seconds (as if it were reading), generates a response, toggles "typing", "types" for several seconds, and sends it. If the person waited too long to respond initially, then hal disconnects. If the person waited too long to respond after sending a message, hal gives them another chance (by sending another message), and if it times out again, hal disconnects.

Perhaps I should port all of my omegle-specific code to an omegle module. That would make omegle hacking a lot easier...

As for a man-in-the-middle attack, I was actually thinking about doing that, again, for the purpose of logging chats. That's my next project, I think.

Finally, megahal is sort of a confused parrot -- he will respond back with things he had already heard (or mutations thereof). The fact that he turned from an insane encyclopedia into a rude, obscene, horny sexbot says a lot about the internet (or, at least about omegle). The fact that a lot of people seem to consider him human also says a lot about the internet... (or, at least about the turing test).

[faazshift]

Too bad I don't have perl compiled with ithreads support. Recompiling everything depending on perl would be a pain. Anyway, good job!

-- Tue Feb 02, 2010 12:39 pm --

I just made a pure python version of that program (using someone elses hal class). The first time after I got it working, it quickly turned gay. Now it seems to have an obsession with "How are you?". Its quite entertaining though.

[jeffory]

I've quickly made a class in python for connecting to omegle if anyone wants to take a peek:

http://snipplr.com/view/27621/omegle-class/

It seems like a "hackish" or poor method to loop a function like that, but I don't know any other way yet.

[faazshift]

Likewise, if you care to look at my, in some ways hackish, bot for this: http://python.pastebin.com/f36b47dfa

[jeffory]

There's a response not mentioned here:

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recaptchaRequired

Took me all night mucking around to get it and it looks like one of those generic recaptcha.net ones.

EDIT: It's asking for a captcha everytime I connect, I've been blacklisted
http://i47.tinypic.com/2iw2iav.jpg

[odomobo]

There's a response not mentioned here:

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recaptchaRequired

Took me all night mucking around to get it and it looks like one of those generic recaptcha.net ones.

EDIT: It's asking for a captcha everytime I connect, I've been blacklisted
http://i47.tinypic.com/2iw2iav.jpg

*shudders* that's terrible. I really wonder why I haven't been blacklisted yet... Maybe I should increase my timeout between chats.

I just made a zorkbot: http://joshodom.net/omegle/omegle_zork/

Not as entertaining as megahal, but it seems like a worthwhile service to me.

Finally, it looks like someone beat me to making an omegle perl module:

http://search.cpan.org/dist/WWW-Omegle/ ... /Omegle.pm

I haven't tried it, but it seems limited. It doesn't look like it supports "typing".

My next goal: to make a "fully-functioning" sexbot. That would definitely be a worthwhile service for omegle.

[DamegedSpy]

OMG, you are my hero
Can you make the Zork bot to send Twitter updates with all messages or at least the ones that get at least 1 point in the game score

[odomobo]

OMG, you are my hero
Can you make the Zork bot to send Twitter updates with all messages or at least the ones that get at least 1 point in the game score

I don't know why I'd want to do twitter updates, other than to be obnoxious.

I had a friend who said I should make an rss for this; I think I'll do that... eventually -- set up a cron job that scans through my files and builds an rss file from it.

A lot of people seem to think that zork is just a guy sending the messages, and other people don't have the intelligence/patience to figure out how to play the game. However, this guy actually impressed me... until he reset the game and quit:

http://joshodom.net/omegle/omegle_zork/ ... _33_38.log

I have another friend who read through all my hal logs... I think that means I need to fire him up again, with a clean brain.

[faazshift]

I have another friend who read through all my hal logs... I think that means I need to fire him up again, with a clean brain.

I haven't yet gotten the persistent brain stuff working yet (mostly because I haven't really put much effort into it), mine starts with only a simple training file every time I run it. For kicks, here are some of my logs: http://66.93.224.121/pub/MyOmegler%20logs/.

[odomobo]

I have another friend who read through all my hal logs... I think that means I need to fire him up again, with a clean brain.

I haven't yet gotten the persistent brain stuff working yet (mostly because I haven't really put much effort into it), mine starts with only a simple training file every time I run it. For kicks, here are some of my logs: http://66.93.224.121/pub/MyOmegler%20logs/.

I don't know how to make a persistent brain, but you can get a nice initial brain, full of science factoids and poetry and songs here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/megahal/files/

You'll want to extract the file megahal.dic, I believe.


And WOW, reading through your logs, people will suffer through a lot of abuse on omegle. I could probably make a bot that only says "20/f looking for sex " and get a lot of positive response.

This is all really cool, though. I feel like I have created a monster, or at least perpetuated one.