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
Web IRC Interfaces
- [Kiwi IRC] a free javascript/web based IRC client
Using in python
- irc library for python
Creating a bot in python
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