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.

[ 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.

ArielBOT is a simple and compact IRCBOT written in perl, expandable using the PERL language.

A powerful set of IRC Services written in the C programming language, with a centralized multithreaded Proxy scanner (with support for single server scan bots) and statistical services, designed to run as a daemon on BSD systems.

*Unofficial* patch for DALnet's ircd, currently for version 1.4.36. Provides complete IPv6 and IPv4-in-IPv6 support and SSL support.

An original bruteforce-based encryption/decryption system. BBE was originally conceived to chat with encrypted text on IRC. mIRC and X-Chat support BBE via script addon. BBE can also encrypt MIME encoded files. Blowfish encryption is currently supported.

A simple C IRC Bot. This is a small project and the goal isn't the replacement of other main bots like eggdrop. The main goal of the bot: study C and socket library!

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

DDBot is a irc bot written in perl language, that allows to play Dungeons And Dragons on a IRC server.

Denora is a set of Stats Services for IRC networks that allows IRC network admins to get a complete and comprehensive overview of their IRC network. Denora exports this information to MySQL, HTML XML and flatfile databases.

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 Chat writed with QT Library version 4.

ImIRC it's a Client for IRC server written in C# Sharp using native soket, streaming, dcc and scripting engine.

Intelligere SCS is a collaboration system with an integrated web conference system ideal for virtual classroom, e-learning and video conference. In order to view an on-line demo use this address http://tinyurl.com/scsdemo (user and pass 'sfguest').

KPackageMaker (kpkgmk) is the simplest way to package your application for many distributions...

Sux services are the new-generation IRC services, which aim to be robust, flexible and scalable. They are modular, multi-threaded and use an SQL backend (mySQL) to store their databases.

A IRC Managed Bot for windows. Can register account, manage privileges and implements command, Console Simulation whit Listbox a prompt box for send irc command, Very simple to implements new command, multithreading all written in C# WPF

The Node projects is a collection of simple software that can be of use for you as an everyday internet user. We aim to give you a full suite of products suited to your needs. Projects include Node IRC, Node Browser, Node Torrent and Node Player.

PerlIrcBOT is fully modular IRC bot written in perl.

Quirck is a Simple IRC Client with a well-commented code and an object oriented architecture. It was written for didactic purposes in a few weeks. We hope that it can be useful for anyone new to the world of IRC client programming.

Windows TCP Relay. This application is a TCP bouncer from ipv* to ipv* (ipv4/ipv6 - ipv4/ipv4 - ipv6/ipv4 - ipv6/ipv6) for Windows NT/2000 and Windows Xp

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+).

This is a project for implementing a good trivia bot/script for the popular irc client mIRC with a PHP front end to use it via HTTP. Some features: persistent hall of fames, nick registration, recording of questions, locale support.

The IRC quiz game with a difference! This game bot is written in PHP and allows you to host games of "The Weakest Link" in your chat channel. Eliminated players are banned or devoiced - no mercy for losers!