Open Source Python Chat Software

See https://pidgin.im/about/ for more information. Pidgin is an instant messaging program which lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. It runs on Windows, Linux, and other UNIX operating systems. Pidgin is compatible with the following chat networks out of the box: AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, MXit, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MySpaceIM, and Zephyr. It is written in C and makes heavy use of GLib and GTK+. Finch is a command line instant messaging program. It also lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat network simultaneously, and it is compatible with the same chat networks as Pidgin. It is written in C and makes heavy use of GLib and ncurses.

emesene is a platform independent instant messaging client for the Windows Live Messenger (tm) network. emesene is distributed free of charge under the GNU General Public License 2 or any later version.

Nicotine+ is a fork of Hyriand's Soulseek PyGTK2 client, Nicotine. Fixing bugs, adding new features, and keeping up-to-date with Soulseek's protocol is the goal of this project. The most popular Multi-OS Soulseek client is getting an upgrade.

Museek-Plus is a program-suite for the C++ museek daemon, a Soulseek/Soulfind P2P client. It includes the QT GUI, Museeq, and the Python/Curses TUI, Mucous. It supports chat, transferring files, searching, user-management shares browsing and more.

A fork of pidgin which aims to provide minor features that have not been addressed by the pidgin development team (including manual textbox resizing). See funpidgin.sf.net for details.

ScriptBot is a scriptable IRC bot. Based on PircBot and BSF, it allows to fully customize the bot's behaviour by editing script files in the scripting language of your choice.

Client/Server-splitted IRC-Client, Designed to run the Server on a remote machine staying connected to the IRC-Servers and having the client connected when chatting. Server can log all conversations. Dont miss any important message anymore!

Eggdrop is the most advanced IRC robot available. It has been under development since December 1993, and unlike most other bots, it is still regularly updated.

JavaMeeting is a great way to conduct a business meeting. Create presentations, audio and video chat, text chat, create polls, and much much more.

MicroChat is a very minimal and very limitet Instant Messaging like Chat System, it is designed for small Links (Modem, etc).

The Open Descent Foundation (ODF) is a community for developers, who want to help to create open source programs, tools, etc. for the famous games Descent1, -2 or -3. Everyone can join the ODF if he accepts the idea of writing open source programs.

Verlihub is a NMDC hub server that runs on all operating systems. It is written in C++ and has many rich plugins including Lua, Python and Perl.

A Python IRC Console Client. I use it to tunnel irc through ssh when I'm at the university. It isn't finished yet, but works quite well for me. The base work is done, but I will revise most of the code soon, so it will be more structured hopefully.

java based, extendable, os independent, pluginable multifunctional chat client and server

Eggdrop is the most advanced IRC robot available. It has been under development since December 1993, and unlike most other bots, it is still regularly updated.

planimo is an instant messaging system planned for lan chats. It support file transfers between users, can emit beeps whene new message arrive and integrate well in gnome desktop! It works on windows too

sushi is an IRC suite providing a central daemon and several clients. It currently consist of - maki: the central IRC daemon - tekka: the PyGTK client - nigiri: urwid terminal client There are more clients to come.