Open Source Mac 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.

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.

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.

[ Please read https://sourceforge.net/p/darkbot/news/2014/01/darkbots-revitalization/ ] Darkbot is a portable IRC chat robot written in the C language that can be taught responses to user inquiries, and even have conversations with them. Darkbot was originally created by Jason Hamilton as an aid for help channels on Intenet Relay Chat.

MsTasty is a free, PHP-based and modular IRC bot

The Foobot is yet another IRC bot, written in perl and easily extendable through an event based plugin system. It offers parser and wrapper functions for the complete RFC 1459 and more in separate modules.

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AdmIRC is a webmin module for irc server administration. It provides a config interface and advanced security and linking automatism support. Currently UnrealIRCD 3.2 and the services Anope and Epona are supported. Subprojects: irc newsbot and java tools

BNCwi is a Open-Source webinterface for psyBNC. With it you easily can manage your Bouncer via a graphical interface.

This is an ircbot written in php. The bot run from any server with php support.

Client/Server-splitted IRC-Client, Designed to run the Server on a remote machine staying connected to the IRC-Servers and having the client connected when chatting. Server can log all conversations. Dont miss any important message anymore!

The goal is to develop a bot that sits on irc and manages clanwars in the internal channel of a clan. the bot should also be able to broadcast clanwars to irc-channels. DEVELOPERS AND TESTERS NEEDED!!!

Friendly Java IRC client, runnable either as web applet or desktop application. It is based on Eteria IRC client, with many improvements.

EVI will be a Java module framework. Modules will focus to internet communication and entertainment. We plan to support IRC, DCC, ICQ, write a number of small games and tools.

A fork of pidgin which aims to provide minor features that have not been addressed by the pidgin development team (including manual textbox resizing). See funpidgin.sf.net for details.

HattrickIRC is a bot for IRC channels. You can watch matches from the popular online game Hattrick.org live in a channel.

An IRC Bot which only needs PHP to run.

A bot written in perl with IRC roleplaying gamers as intended audience. This bot can simulate various RPG systems in the aspect of throwing dice for certain systems. It focuses on Shadowrun and the World of Darkness, but can be used for about any RPG

IRCmasher is a IRC bot written in PHP

IRCscraper is an attempt to create an IRC client written in Java, making it possible to run the client from an USB stick on most operating systems. Furthermore its GUI is meant to be user friendly and logically structured.

waynebot is a Chanelmanagement-Bot for the IRC. It comes with it's own plugin interface, plugins are written in JAVA. Some basic plugins as well as a template-plugin are included. A JavaDOC is available, other Docs will follow.

Inox is an irc bot written from scratch in java. Modules can be loaded and unloaded in runtime and provide a framework for other modules. Multiple channels are supported as well as a powerfull config file.

MoxQuizz is a multilingual IRC quiz/trivia bot for eggdrops, which acts as a game master. A question is posted to the channel and all chatter is searched for the answer.