Internet Relay Chat

wikipedia:Internet Relay Chat

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

• ChatZilla

Web IRC Interfaces

• [Kiwi IRC] a free javascript/web based IRC client

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Using in python

• irc library for python

Creating a bot in python

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