This is a simple way to get pyscholar running as an IRC bot. 1. Get phenny sources: git clone http://github.com/sbp/phenny.git 2. Customize and put this config file into $HOME/.phenny/default.py: nick = 'bot nick' host = 'chat.freenode.net' channels = ['#botchannel'] owner = 'your nick' # password = 'yourserverpassword' admins = [ owner ] # add more nicks if needed # Load pyscholar modules extra = [ 'path to pyscholar/phenny_doi.py', 'path to pyscholar/phenny_paper.py' ] # EOF 3. Run phenny! You probably need to do it this way: PYTHONPATH=path_to_pyscholar phenny