Open Source Python IRC Clients for Linux

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.

Nested commands, easy configuration, and an incredibly flexible and easy-to-use plugin system distinguish Supybot from other IRC bots. There simply isn't a more flexible or easier to use IRC bot!

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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.

An IRC client that uses Tcl for not only the scripting, but also the "glue" at the C level for how all the parts of the application fit together.

An IRC bot, similar to the Blootbot and Infobot, written in python.

Pierce is an open source event based framework for building IRC bots (or potentially clients?). It is written in Python and contains default handlers as well as some extra handlers that make bot creation simple.

Pynfo is an IRC bot written in Python and the Twisted framework. Among its features are network bridging/relaying, basic "infobot" capabilities, googling, 3 access tiers, and a shorter-link function. Pynfo is easily extensible and fully disk-persisten

.nIRC is an IRC client written in C#. It has full support for text formatting, file sending, etc, and allows the use of IronPython scripts in order to make further customisation easier.

A2K is a small, simple, and unobtrusive IRC bot written in Python, with automatic op and URL catcher.

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client for the GNOME desktop

AoCBot is a python bot that wraps together IRC and the Age of Conan chatserver. It has some helpful AoC-related features like whois/IRC relay, and offers a very easy way to add your own plugins.

BBot is a GNU GPL IRC bot for everything from preventing spam to just plain old welcome bots. BBot includes modules to handle factoids, away statuses, do math and more. Writing custom code for BBot is easy, and the more, the better.

BoTube2 is another IRC BOT with an advanced plugin system that makes easy to develop new capabilities, by now there are only 12 plugins developed, you can develop more if you want. Added first revision of documentation for the plugin developer (spanish only by now). Would you like to enpower Botube2 with your own plugin? Lots of bugfixes here!

BibleBot for XChat. Also a collection of other useful Python scripts for XChat. Translator(TransBot), Dictionary(DictBot), Googling(GoogleBot), Relaying(RelayBot), Calculator(CalcBot), Operation(OpBot), Seen(SeenBot), Weather(WeatherBot) Platform indepen

This program serves as a link between two or more chat networks, allowing users on one network to communicate with users on another network. For example, you can be logged onto Battle.net and be talking to people on IRC and people on AIM at the same tim

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!

A multiplatform IRC client written in Python using wxPython for GUI.

Clogger is an IRC bot that logs IRC conversations that will be abled to be searched and displayed in a channel upon user request. The bot's search engine efficiently searches what it logs and outputs it's results to the user in the channel.

Cortez, for create new news service model for RSS and blogging. Cortez will just offer the environment to create post, read news thru RSS(ATOM) and syndicate within the multiple blogs.

Countdown irc bot is a bot that plays the letters game of countdown.

DCCgetter is a script intended for use with the psyBNC scripting mechanism, to provide a different way to manage and automatically accept certain of DCC send request from other IRC clients. It replaces the buggy DCC interface offered by psyBNC.

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.

Ennesbot is an open source automated IRC client (aka Bot) written entirely in Python. It uses direct sockets and medusa style sockets. It has pluggable python personality modules that can extend the bot.