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PircBot is a Java framework for writing IRC bots quickly and easily. Its features include an event-driven architecture to handle common IRC events, flood protection, DCC resuming support, ident support, and more. Its comprehensive logfile format is suitable for use with pisg to generate channel statistics. Full documentation is included, and this page contains a 5-minute step-by-step guide to making your first IRC bot. PircBot allows you to perform a variety of fun tasks on IRC, but it is also used for more serious applications by the US Navy, the US Air Force, the CIA (unconfirmed), several national defence agencies, and inside the Azureus bittorrent client. But don't let that put you off - it's still easy to use!

Eggdrop is the world's most popular Open Source IRC bot, designed for flexibility and ease of use, and is freely distributable under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Eggdrop was originally developed by Robey Pointer; however, he no longer works on Eggdrop so please do not contact him for help solving a problem or bug. Some features of Eggdrop: * Designed to run on Linux, *BSD, SunOs, Windows, Mac OS X, etc ... * Extendable with Tcl scripts and/or C modules * Support for the big five IRC networks (Undernet, DALnet, EFnet, IRCnet, and QuakeNet) * The ability to form botnets and share partylines and userfiles between bots Some benefits of Eggdrop: * The oldest IRC bot still in active development (Eggdrop was created in 1993) * Established IRC help channels and web sites dedicated to Eggdrop * Thousands of premade Tcl scripts and C modules * Best of all ... It's FREE!

mobibot is the #mobitopia IRC channel bot. It is built on Paul Mutton's PircBot Java-based Framework. mobibot is making extensive use of various open source libraries, including: * Commons CLI * Commons HTTPClient * Commons Logging * Commons Net * delicious-java * Google Tag Library * JWeather * MathEvaluator * Rome * Apache XML-RPC * Twitter4J mobibot was written by Erik C. Thauvin as a replacement for the channel's original ChumpBot. Features mobibot's main functionality is to capture URLs posted on the channel. The URLs are automatically gathered into a publishable RSS feed. Other features include: * Performing calculations * Converting between currencies * Rolling dice * Performing Google searches * Displaying the latest entries on Mobitopia * Performing DNS lookups * Recapping public channel messages * Performing Google spelling queries * Retrieving stock quotes * Displaying the time in various time zones * Listing the users on the channel * Displaying weather information * Posting to Jaiku's #mobitopia channel * Posting to Twitter Some of the internal features include RSS feed backlogs, rolling logs, debugging toggle and much more. If you have any feature suggestions, please post them to the mobibot wiki.