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.

PJIRC is a full-featured Java-based IRC client

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.

Traditionally, IRC clients on the Mac have been anything but glamorous. Colloquy is an advanced IRC client which aims to fill this void. By adhering to Mac OS X interface conventions, Colloquy has the look and feel of a quality Mac application.

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

This Darkbot page is a fork of the original Darkbot. The original page was taken by new ownership and the original group of contributors have had no luck in retaining control over the project as was originally the case. Darkbot is an artificially intelligent IRC robot originally created by Jason Hamilton for use in help rooms on the Undernet IRC network, and others. It is capable of being taught responses to questions, and can help simulate the feeling of having a real person around to answer questions when nobody else is available. The aim of this page is not to take control over the project again as much as to begin making updates and making things fresh for the few who are still dedicated users.

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.

Irc web client (PHP, xhtml, css, ECMAScript) in real time (without "refresh"). Groucha doesn't need anything else than php and is "safe mode" compatible.

Hattbot is an IRC bot project for the hattrick online game. It permits to view severals infos about teams, players, players evolution, live match..

IRC JAVA BOT is a bot for IRC written in JAVA. It can manage connection to database, identification and so on ...

IRC JdR is a permanent game playable via IRC

JAVA / PHP / MYSQL IRC Stats Bot based on IRC JAVA BOT. Makes statistics for one or more channels on irc. Make many php page with the stats of channels and the stats of nicks.

A tcl to generate webpages statistiques of IRC channels directly from eggdrops.

IRC Java client with support of smileys, skins, jython scripting and plugins.

JChatIM is an instant messaging (IM) system written in Java with support of smileys and skins

IRC Client wrote in Java/Swing. It allows you to join several IRC servers and channels at the same time and provides private conversations support between two IRC users. Supports standards IRC colors for reading and writing.

Palin is a Python IRC library used to develop either IRC clients, or IRC bots or anything other related to IRC. Its name comes from Michael Palin, one of the famous Monty Python.

Samantah est un service IRC écrit en Tcl. Son atout est qu'il extensible via des scripts Tcl, vous pouvez développer vos applications/services directement avec un système de scripts facilement maitrisable et intuitif.

Project created to entertain on the IRC channel. This bot is the successor of a version written in C which is less modular than this version in Perl. It is designed to be entertained during exchanges on IRC. It allows to display macros on an IRC channel. These macros are recorded by users in the form of actions, messages or IRC commands. It is possible to create a macro with several macros in a row. It also keeps a history of those deleted. Features It can also perform other small tasks: Statistics of chan activity with Pisg Statistics of the words used, number of times... Anagram using René Cougnenc's Dictionary Dico still present in Debian-based distributions Management of rights to activate, of users Permission to interact Blocking a user Protection of defined users against Kick, MODE -o, ban...

Tcldrop is basically a clone of the Eggdrop IRC bot, but is being written purely in Tcl. The intention is to write a much more scriptable bot than Eggdrop is. It will run stand-alone or from any Tcl-enabled application (Tcl v8.5+).

Egalite supports direct 1-1 chat with SSL over IPv4 or IPv6, as well as server based chat with IRC or XMPP (Jabber).

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.

zIrc is an irc client written in pure java. It supports multi-server connections, dcc file sharing, mirc-compatible text coloration, smilies, a simple, intuitive interface... It has everything you may need to make your irc experience easy and enjoyable