Open Source IRC Clients

See https://pidgin.im/about/ for more information. Pidgin is an instant messaging program which lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. It runs on Windows, Linux, and other UNIX operating systems. Pidgin is compatible with the following chat networks out of the box: AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, MXit, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MySpaceIM, and Zephyr. It is written in C and makes heavy use of GLib and GTK+. Finch is a command line instant messaging program. It also lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat network simultaneously, and it is compatible with the same chat networks as Pidgin. It is written in C and makes heavy use of GLib and ncurses.

Bot Sentry is a Pidgin (libpurple) plugin to prevent Instant Message (IM) spam. It allows you to ignore IMs unless the sender is in your Buddy List, the sender is in your Allow List, or the sender correctly answers a question you have predefined.

Plugin for Irssi which monitors torrent IRC announce channels, downloads torrent files based on a user-defined filter, and then sends the torrent files to a local or remote torrent client. Supports several different private trackers.

pisg is a smart Perl script which generates nice looking statistics out from IRC logfiles. It's a funny thing for the users of your channel :)

Nested commands, easy configuration, and an incredibly flexible and easy-to-use plugin system distinguish Supybot from other IRC bots. There simply isn't a more flexible or easier to use IRC bot!

IRClib is pure Java 1.2 IRC implementation. The IRClib library is designed very cleanly, supports RFC1459 and supports SSL connections. moepII is a Java IRC client program.

Plugin for ChatZilla which monitors torrent IRC announce channels, downloads torrent files based on a user-defined filter, and then sends the torrent files to a local or remote torrent client. Supports several different private trackers.

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A complete rewrite of the mobile java irc-client WLIrc. (http://wirelessirc.sourceforge.net) Aims to be more responsive and use less memory maintaining the current gui and looks.

DAVIS is an easy and useful language for IRC bots. This project contains our own bots, some bots for demonstration, a parser that creates Java, C, Perl and IRC-Script code out of a DAVIS file, and an interpreter for DAVIS files.

An IRC bot, similar to the Blootbot and Infobot, written in python.

A multiplayer RPG that connects as a psuedo server to an IRCD. Built in the tradition of old BBS Door games such as LORD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_Red_Dragon). Forest fights add experience and gold needed to best your master (gain level

Eggdrop is the most advanced IRC robot available. It has been under development since December 1993, and unlike most other bots, it is still regularly updated.

EIRC is an IRC client program written entirely in Java using only Java API version 1.1, for compliance with once mainstream web browsers. It runs both as an applet and as an application.

This java library implements the IRC protocol. This library can be used in other programs as a means to get onto a IRC server and communicate without the need to understand the IRC protocol. Project source code will be added shortly..

This project includes an event-driven IRC client framework written in Python, as well as an object-oriented wrapper class and some example programs.

PJIRC is a full-featured Java-based IRC client

AOLibrary is a java-based library for writing chat bots that can be used with the game Anarchy Online. (Bots are often used to facilitate communications within an in-game organization or guild.) The library is written in Java 6.

Скрипт управления написанный на TCL для IRC бота Eggdrop v1.6.x. Имеет гибкие настройки и позволяет управлять ботом через канальные сообщения/прива

A fast, sleak, and extensible IRC bot, written in Ruby. Using plugins to provide all functionality wanted.

Flooterbuck Infobot is a redesign and rewrite of Kevin Lenzo's (apparently abandoned) "infobot" IRC bot project. It is a rewrite to make it more developer- and user-friendly. And to, you know, actually fix bugs every now and then.

Goki has grown from an IRC bot that reads RSS feeds and announces news on its channels to a highly customizable, plug-in plugin driven irc bot. It will run on a basic perl installation. No need for those ???::IRC modules.

Eggdrop based trivia-like game written in TCL.

Hollaka Hollala is a chatbot engine and IRC bot. The chatbot engine uses a knowledge base organized in an XML file and WordNet for dictionary lookup. The IRC Bot has some WordNet- and Web-based functionality and is hot-extensible through Ruby programs.

Java library for the creation of IRC-related applications (i.e. bots, clients, etc)