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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