awesome-irc

IRC toolkit

A curated collection of tools and resources for Internet Relay Chat (IRC) protocol implementation and use.

A curated list of awesome IRC resources.

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Awesome IRC / Clients
Textual Very customizable, ZNC integration, iCloud sync ($4.99). ( )
LimeChat One window for multiple servers, keyboard shortcuts, fast & stable. ( )
HexChat Based on XChat, easy to use, spell check & multiple languages. ( )
gamja A simple IRC web client. ( )
Kiwi IRC Powerful modern IRC messenger for the web. ( , )
CIRC Uses the chrome.sockets APIs to connect directly to IRC servers without needing a proxy. ( )
Quassel Distributed (clients can attach to and detach from a central core that stays permanently online. ( )
Yaaic Multi-server/channel support, SASL support, Smooth channel scrolling / swiping. ( )
relay.js 162 almost 8 years ago Focuses on making IRC less intimidating and easier to use
Circe 398 20 days ago For use in Emacs, sane defaults
Smuxi User-friendly, based on GNOME / GTK+. ( )
KvIRC Free, portable, based on Qt GUI toolkit. ( )
Konversation User-friendly client built on the KDE Platform. ( )
sic imple RC lient - a terminal client in less than 250 lines of C
irssi Terminal client, multi-protocol friendly for module authors, GPLv2
Revolution IRC 555 11 months ago Feature-full, actively maintained Android IRC client
AdiIRC Never has a client offered such granular settings for every aspect of the IRC experience. ( , )
IRC for Android™ Android/Chrome OS client for power users, with ZNC built-ins, notification logic, reliable DCC, keybinds for hardware keyboards, etc
Iridium Friendly IRC client built in Vala and GTK, designed for elementary OS. ( )
Goguma An IRC client for mobile devices, from the creator of soju

Awesome IRC / Bouncers / Hosted
IRCCloud Group chat for teams, friends, and communities. stay connected, chat from anywhere, and never miss a message (+client) (£0-£3.50/month)

Awesome IRC / Bouncers / Hosted / IRCCloud
iOS App 280 4 months ago Official
Android App 291 2 months ago Official
Nimbus 151 almost 8 years ago Standalone client

Awesome IRC / Bouncers / Self-hosted
Convos Always online web IRC client. ( )
ZNC Most popular. many different plugins. ( )
BIP IRC Proxy Always online, lightweight and secure Open Source IRC proxying with backlogging. ( )
TheLounge Responsive, self-hosted & support for multiple users. ( , )
WeeChat A fast, light and extensible chat client. ( )
soju A user-friendly IRC bouncer
sms-webhook 0 18 days ago A simple webhook to receive SMS messages on IRC

Awesome IRC / Daemons
ircd.js 528 over 3 years ago Server will allow clients to connect, join channels, change topics; basic stuff
InspIRCd Modular, stable, written from scratch. ( )
miniircd 422 about 2 months ago Very simple and limited
ngIRCd Portable and lightweight for small or private networks. ( )
Ergo 2,281 25 days ago Modern server that's portable and designed around specifications (bleeding-edge IRCv3 support)
RobustIRC IRC server without netsplits. ( )

Awesome IRC / Services
Atheme Designed for large networks with high scalability requirements. ( )
anope Designed for flexibility and ease of use. ( )

Awesome IRC / Bots
Eggdrop Oldest IRC bot still in active development. Feature rich, uses Tcl scripting. ( )
Sopel Tonnes of ready made features, tutorial, fully documented. ( )
Limnoria 623 5 days ago Robust, user friendly, developer friendly
Twitch Plays 275 over 10 years ago Takes input from the chat and presses the corresponding key
Skybot 250 10 months ago Main goals are simplicity and power
talkbackbot Responds to configured trigger phrases with quotes from notable women. ( )
lazybot 153 over 9 years ago User-friendly and powerful
IRC-BF -
geordi 183 about 2 years ago Compiles and runs C++ code snippets
CloudBot 73 about 1 month ago Simple, fast, expandable
yossarian-bot 31 6 days ago Large default plugin set, Cinch-based
helga 48 about 2 years ago Pluggable chat bot supporting multiple protocols
EveIRC 9 about 5 years ago Extendable chat/channel/server-managenent service-providing bot. Using the
BitBot 136 over 1 year ago Modular, event-driven bot featuring a REST API, individual user settings and much more. ( )
Cardinal 100 4 months ago Python Twisted IRC bot with a focus on ease of plugin development
pyHoneybot Python Twisted IRC bot with a focus on ease of plugin development. ( )
wayback 1,811 8 days ago An archiving tool with an IRC interface integrated with various archiving services
milla 5 5 days ago New generation LLM-powered bot with lua scripting support

Awesome IRC / Frameworks
node-irc 43 over 3 years ago
goirc 499 6 months ago Event-based, stateful, lacking documentation
Hubot IRC Adapter 299 almost 3 years ago The IRC adapter for hubot
go-ircevent 502 over 1 year ago Event-based
slate-irc 205 about 1 month ago Plugin system, simple api, arbitrary input stream, debug support
PircBotX 220 11 months ago Event based IRC Library with a straightforward API (updated fork of )
IRC::Client 15 3 months ago based extendable IRC client framework
irccd Flexible IRC bot customizable with JavaScript.

Awesome IRC / Frameworks / Bridges
discord-irc 1,202 12 months ago Discord ↔ IRC
dibridge 15 about 2 months ago Discord ↔ IRC (with puppets)
slack-irc 587 about 2 years ago Slack ↔ IRC
irc-slack 195 24 days ago Slack ↔ IRC
BitlBee XMPP, Jabber, Google Talk, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, AIM, ICQ, Twitter API, HipChat ↔ IRC
Biboumi IRC gateway for XMPP clients
teleirc 140 5 days ago Telegram ↔ IRC
toxirc 22 9 months ago Tox ↔ IRC
skyweb2irc 7 over 1 year ago Skype (webclient API) ↔ IRC
matterbridge 6,656 3 months ago IRC ↔ Mattermost ↔ Discord ↔ XMPP ↔ Gitter ↔ Slack ↔ Discord ↔ Telegram ↔ etc
Heisenbridge 244 3 months ago Bouncer-style Matrix IRC bridge
Appservice-IRC 467 7 days ago Gateway and bridge Matrix ↔ IRC
matterircd 295 2 months ago Matterbridge ↔ IRC, Slack ↔ IRC, Mastodon ↔ IRC

Awesome IRC / Channels / Discovery
netsplit.de Search Searches 563 different networks
mibbit Search Searches networks listed
KiwiIRC Search Searches 318 different networks

Awesome IRC / Channels / Platforms
#ubuntu @Libera.Chat - Official Ubuntu support channel. ( )

Awesome IRC / Networks
Libera.Chat Network mostly focused on free and open source projects, run by former freenode staff
Snoonet Community of redditors and subreddits. ( )
OFTC Community for free and open source software communities
LibertaCasa Privacy endorsing community serving as a safe and open space for the discussion of various topics

Awesome IRC / Articles
Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects Drew DeVault's Blog
IRC Networks Under Systematic Attack From Governments QuakeNet
IRC is dead, long live IRC Pingdom
IRC Has Lost 60% Of Its Users Since 2003, But Life As A Robot Is Just Beginning Alex Williams (TechCrunch)

Awesome IRC / Guides
#irchelp A vast amount of reasonably up-to-date information

Awesome IRC / Protocol
IRCv3 Working Group A group of IRC software authors working to enhance, improve, maintain and standardize the IRC protocol. ( )
Modern IRC Documents An attempt to write an update to the original IRC protocol. documentation ( )
IRC Definition Files Lists of numerics, modes, ISUPPORT tokens and other protocol details. ( )
grawity's IRC docs 55 over 2 years ago Collection of misc IRC protocol documentation
Protocol Statistics Statistics around the server software in use on networks today. ( )
IRC Parser Tests 40 over 1 year ago A CC0 set of test suites, to ensure IRC message parsers are consistent
DareNET Archives IRC Archives for old hard to find IRC related software

Awesome IRC / Miscellaneous
superseriousstats 95 about 2 months ago Fast and efficient program to create statistics out of various types of chat logs
img2src 23 18 days ago Convert images to halfblock ANSI or IRC, with a bunch of post-processing filters

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