Open Source 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.

Bot Sentry is a Pidgin (libpurple) plugin to prevent Instant Message (IM) spam. It allows you to ignore IMs unless the sender is in your Buddy List, the sender is in your Allow List, or the sender correctly answers a question you have predefined.

Anope Services are built off of the original Epona code written by Lara which is built off of IRC Services. These services have advanced the original Epona code and include new features such as Modules, Mysql, and Defcon Mode.

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.

srvx IRC Services is a ground-up implementation of services for IRC networks (supporting IRCu2.10, Bahamut, and other IRC server dialects). Features include POSIX threading, generalized proxy detection and all the standard services users expect.

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.

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.

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

Friendly Java IRC client, runnable either as web applet or desktop application. It is based on Eteria IRC client, with many improvements.

This is an ircbot written in php. The bot run from any server with php support.

[ Please read https://sourceforge.net/p/darkbot/news/2014/01/darkbots-revitalization/ ] Darkbot is a portable IRC chat robot written in the C language that can be taught responses to user inquiries, and even have conversations with them. Darkbot was originally created by Jason Hamilton as an aid for help channels on Intenet Relay Chat.

Inox is an irc bot written from scratch in java. Modules can be loaded and unloaded in runtime and provide a framework for other modules. Multiple channels are supported as well as a powerfull config file.

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.

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Airwave: IRC-Services that are fast, stable, written in standard C, based on Cygnus and include HostServ.

Ayttm is an instant messenger program, supporting various protocols such as MSN, Yahoo, AIM, Jabber, and more. It is the heir of the Everybuddy project, and aims to continue improving the program and addressing its shortcomings.

BNCwi is a Open-Source webinterface for psyBNC. With it you easily can manage your Bouncer via a graphical interface.

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!

The goal is to develop a bot that sits on irc and manages clanwars in the internal channel of a clan. the bot should also be able to broadcast clanwars to irc-channels. DEVELOPERS AND TESTERS NEEDED!!!

Denora is a set of Stats Services for IRC networks that allows IRC network admins to get a complete and comprehensive overview of their IRC network. Denora exports this information to MySQL, HTML XML and flatfile databases.

EIRC is an IRC client program written entirely in Java using only Java API version 1.1, for compliance with once mainstream web browsers. It runs both as an applet and as an application.

EVI will be a Java module framework. Modules will focus to internet communication and entertainment. We plan to support IRC, DCC, ICQ, write a number of small games and tools.

A IRC Server for Win-32 written in Delphi. Target of the Project is to use to get it runing under full RFC xxxx Protocols. At the moment its planed as an "Security IRC" wich should provide "max. Privacy" to Chatters. UserModes WHOIS,DNS are not pla

Gamers.IRC is a full MSL Script for mIRC, the most popular Windows IRC client. Gamers.IRC is for Windows 95 and higher. Source code: Download and run the installer. Open the .grc and .ini files with notepad.