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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