Open Source Linux Bot Frameworks

RCBot2 An open source GPL bot framework for HL2 Orange Box Mods ONLY

The DotNetWikiBot Framework was developed so that it can offer a helping hand with many complicated and routine tasks of wiki site development and maintenance. DotNetWikiBot Framework is a cross-platform full-featured client API, that allows you to build programs and web robots easily to manage information on MediaWiki-powered sites. DotNetWikiBot Framework can also be used for learning C# and .NET.

meta project porting of silc network bot framework to current toolkit, based on samadhi, the SILC robot, written in C, supporting python and perl. comes with alice. not working as of May 2011

Duke is an IRC-bot framework based on PircBot library. It provides extensible IRC messages handling bus, made of modules integrated by Spring IoC container.

Ennesbot is an open source automated IRC client (aka Bot) written entirely in Python. It uses direct sockets and medusa style sockets. It has pluggable python personality modules that can extend the bot.

Globsy is a PHP bot framework for the Google Talk network. Globsy can be executed from a regular browser on a PHP enabled server, connect to the Google Talk network and continue running in the background, without the browser needing to remain open.

a simple, extensible Instant Messenger TOC bot framework written in Java using Jaimlib 0.5 or greater. services for incoming IMs are created simply by implementing a handle() method, and sample handler code is included.

JIB - Java IM Bot, aimed to built a pluggable, customizable, expandable and dynamic bot framework for instant messager. With JIB user can control remote IM Bots over web based interface, configure bots to perform various tasks or custom behavior.

Java Wiki Bot Framework helps with wiki (MediaWiki) site management. It allows to build robots to edit and dump information from Wikis. For more information and features see project homepage.

PHP-MSNBot is a MSN bot completly written in php and currently uses MSN Protocol 9.

An open source plugin framework built for the PircBot Java IRC Bot Framework

General and simple IRC bot framework with very flexible bus architecture and plugins support, originally written for use as RPC gateway for remote message sending to multiple IRC channels or users. Now: http://github.com/martinkozak/pyircgate-daemon.

makes writing python bots easy, and transport independant, allowing the same bot code to run on multiple protocols.

SquirrelTrivia is a Java and PIRC-bot-framework based IRC bot designed specifically for trivia, and plans to include public and private trivia, amd highscores. Attention: Now defunct, please see https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=781270

WWW::BookBot is a perl bot framework to fetch web e-texts with catalog, books and chapters.

XionBot is an IRC bot framework/template coded completely in C. It is meant to be modular for any additions or for reference on how one may construct their own IRC client. Source codes for additional modules are also available.

A Python library and collection of tools that automate work on MediaWiki sites. Originally designed for Wikipedia, it is now used throughout the Wikimedia Foundation's projects and on many other MediaWiki wikis including wikidata service. We do not use sourceforge.net anymore, but are very grateful for their support in the past. Please see our website at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Pywikibot Our pypi package could be found at https://pypi.org/project/pywikibot/