Open Source Perl IRC Clients

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.

Plugin for Irssi which monitors torrent IRC announce channels, downloads torrent files based on a user-defined filter, and then sends the torrent files to a local or remote torrent client. Supports several different private trackers.

pisg is a smart Perl script which generates nice looking statistics out from IRC logfiles. It's a funny thing for the users of your channel :)

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.

Jarl is a Perl/Tk Client. It strives to provide full functionality with every aspect of the Jabber IM system. It currently supoprts messaging, chat, groupchat, ICQ, AIM, and IRC support.

DAVIS is an easy and useful language for IRC bots. This project contains our own bots, some bots for demonstration, a parser that creates Java, C, Perl and IRC-Script code out of a DAVIS file, and an interpreter for DAVIS files.

Pegasus Ircd + IRC Services, New Secure server offering new, fun modes and commands, samove, myhost and mynick, + addon Z type Services. Based on Bahamut, Unreal and Quarterdecks global stage Ircd.

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.

Erwin is an IRC-bot in Perl, using POE, written with modularity and expandability in mind. Installing and configuring modules is very easy, compared to lots of other Perl bots where you have to read the source and add your own code in the various event loops. Adding additional functionality is as easy as writing a subroutine that returns something and configuring a regex to use that subroutine. By typing "!google keyword", for instance, "Google::Search" gets "keyword" as an argument, searches Google with that keyword and returns a couple of URLs. Further expandability can be achieved using "plug-ins". Plug-ins subclass "Erwin::Plugin", and can recieve and take control over various events. For example does the pastebin-plugin need the ability to take control over every line sent privately by some user, and e.g. a quiz module would need to get every single message sent to a channel while a quiz is going on.

Highly customizable fserve for XChat-2

VooDoo cIRCle is modular IRC bot, scriptable thanks to PHP and Perl, with built-in SSL support, File System, private BotNet and advanced security rights for each user. Runs on POSIX/Unices, Windows and Mac OS X.

BwentBot in an event driven IRC bot completely written in Perl. Its goal is to be functional without becoming bloated, and to keep overhead low to run on older systems. BwentBot has many features that make it an ideal bot for IRC channels.

A bot written in perl with IRC roleplaying gamers as intended audience. This bot can simulate various RPG systems in the aspect of throwing dice for certain systems. It focuses on Shadowrun and the World of Darkness, but can be used for about any RPG

AdmIRC is a webmin module for irc server administration. It provides a config interface and advanced security and linking automatism support. Currently UnrealIRCD 3.2 and the services Anope and Epona are supported. Subprojects: irc newsbot and java tools

ChanServ IRC Services supports ircd, ircu, and Unreal. Its being coded to uss a MySQL database for its data which means Speed, Server spanning, all fully configurable Web Frontend, Direct DB access, and better Security.

HashDotBot is a simple channel bot which is used on #. on irc.linux.com. It is made entirely from Perl, and maintains channel modes, ops etc...

IRC bot, written in Perl with mySQL log database. It can forward messages between 2 users, analyse the sentence, read joke from web and send them like a public messages, control to protect channels where it is with SPAM and Invite control.

Internet Relay Jabber (or IRJ) is a Jabber client for IRC. It's useful if you like IRC, but your friends use another IM service. It is written in Perl and uses Net::Jabber and Net::IRC. (This project is no longer under active development)

Opener Chat is a kind of multi-user and multi-protocol online communication software which is like Pidgin (gaim). Opener Chat is completely written by Perl. It occupies less resource and has greater extensibility. Goto our site for more information.

PerlIrcBOT is fully modular IRC bot written in perl.

Zeus is a XChat script (written in perl) that provides a GUI interface (through the use of Tk) for "Autoget" and "Omenserve" two mIRC scripts used for sharing files on the IRC.

aIRCraft is a Small and Fast pluggable perl-irc-robot designed to provide both certain services like Weather forecast, definition databases and a stable botnet core. Since it is highly pluggable modules can be written very easily.

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.

Pastebot is an irc bot that saves channels from large amounts of pasted material. Text is pasted into a web form, and the bot announces an URL where it can be read. Interested people can partake in the joy without the whole channel scrolling to hell

Converts non-IRC XDCC listings into XDCC Browser (XCB) format.