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 about 8 years ago Focuses on making IRC less intimidating and easier to use
Circe 398 4 months 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 559 about 1 year 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 2 months ago Official
Android App 293 2 months ago Official
Nimbus 151 about 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 4 months 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 5 months ago Very simple and limited
ngIRCd Portable and lightweight for small or private networks. ( )
Ergo 2,295 3 months 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 624 2 months ago Robust, user friendly, developer friendly
Twitch Plays 275 almost 11 years ago Takes input from the chat and presses the corresponding key
Skybot 249 about 1 year 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 over 2 years ago Compiles and runs C++ code snippets
CloudBot 73 4 months ago Simple, fast, expandable
yossarian-bot 32 2 months ago Large default plugin set, Cinch-based
helga 48 over 2 years ago Pluggable chat bot supporting multiple protocols
EveIRC 9 over 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 99 7 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 1,839 2 months ago An archiving tool with an IRC interface integrated with various archiving services
milla 5 3 months ago New generation LLM-powered bot with lua scripting support

Awesome IRC / Frameworks
node-irc 43 almost 4 years ago
goirc 499 9 months ago Event-based, stateful, lacking documentation
Hubot IRC Adapter 299 about 3 years ago The IRC adapter for hubot
go-ircevent 503 almost 2 years ago Event-based
slate-irc 206 5 months ago Plugin system, simple api, arbitrary input stream, debug support
PircBotX 221 about 1 year ago Event based IRC Library with a straightforward API (updated fork of )
IRC::Client 15 6 months ago based extendable IRC client framework
irccd Flexible IRC bot customizable with JavaScript.

Awesome IRC / Frameworks / Bridges
discord-irc 1,200 about 1 year ago Discord ↔ IRC
dibridge 15 2 months ago Discord ↔ IRC (with puppets)
slack-irc 587 over 2 years ago Slack ↔ IRC
irc-slack 196 2 months 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 142 3 months ago Telegram ↔ IRC
toxirc 22 about 1 year ago Tox ↔ IRC
skyweb2irc 7 almost 2 years ago Skype (webclient API) ↔ IRC
matterbridge 6,745 2 months ago IRC ↔ Mattermost ↔ Discord ↔ XMPP ↔ Gitter ↔ Slack ↔ Discord ↔ Telegram ↔ etc
Heisenbridge 247 6 months ago Bouncer-style Matrix IRC bridge
Appservice-IRC 467 3 months ago Gateway and bridge Matrix ↔ IRC
matterircd 295 5 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 98 3 months ago Fast and efficient program to create statistics out of various types of chat logs
img2src 23 2 months ago Convert images to halfblock ANSI or IRC, with a bunch of post-processing filters

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