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 ==

* [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/irc irc] library for python

=== Creating a bot in python ===
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