Internet Relay Chat
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Servers
As free software, anyone can download and run IRC server. In addition, there are many public IRC servers where you can create your own channels.
Public IRC: http://quakenet.org, http://freenode.net
Clients
IRC Clients
- Pidgin
Browser Plugins
Web IRC Interfaces
- [Kiwi IRC] a free javascript/web based IRC client
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== Using in python ==
* [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/irc irc] library for python
=== Creating a bot in python ===
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Programming an IRC bot in Python
Download this http://pypi.python.org/pypi/irc
#! /usr/bin/env python
"""
HelloBot
"""
import irc.bot
from time import sleep
class Bot (irc.bot.SingleServerIRCBot):
def __init__(self, server, channel, nickname, port=6667):
irc.bot.SingleServerIRCBot.__init__(self, [(server, port)], nickname, nickname)
self.channel = channel
def on_nicknameinuse(self, c, e):
c.nick(c.get_nickname() + "_")
def on_welcome(self, c, e):
c.join(self.channel)
def on_privmsg(self, c, e):
sleep(2)
c.privmsg(e.source.nick, "I don't speak privately")
def on_pubmsg(self, c, e):
msg = e.arguments[0]
print msg
sleep(2)
c.privmsg(self.channel, "you said:" + msg)
#############################################
# Standard code to start the bot
#############################################
def main():
import sys
if not len(sys.argv) >= 3 :
print "Usage: testbot server[:port] channel nickname"
sys.exit(1)
s = sys.argv[1].split(":", 1)
server = s[0]
if len(s) == 2:
try:
port = int(s[1])
except ValueError:
print "Error: Erroneous port."
sys.exit(1)
else:
port = 6667
channel = sys.argv[2]
nickname = sys.argv[3]
bot = Bot(server, channel, nickname, port)
bot.start()
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
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