Open Source Python IRC Clients for Linux

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.

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.

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.

Luz is a GPL IRC Services. It's purpose is to offer a quality free software product, instead of the closed source available ones. It's designed mainly -but not limited to- for ircu based ircd's.

The Open Descent Foundation (ODF) is a community for developers, who want to help to create open source programs, tools, etc. for the famous games Descent1, -2 or -3. Everyone can join the ODF if he accepts the idea of writing open source programs.

Gaim Python plug-in. The product provides developers with the capability to develop python plugins for Gaim.

Rockbot is a C irc robot initally based on comstud's Combot. It has gone a long way though. Its version 5 release was widely known in 1996-7 as one of the better (and eaisier to setup) bots. Version 6 goal is to compete with eggdrops, which the author di

An fserve (fileserver) for X-Chat that allows you to share files via IRC.

VVOIP is voice and video over IP is a P2P application without any protocol like SIP (no server is required) etc.. application. It use decent codecs for video and voice encrypted streams over IP. Moreover it is also comptiable with VoIP modems, you'd con

Valuhack is a collaborative effort of a variety of newsgroups to port a simple program to as many languages as possible, while maintaining the true spirit of hacking.

The purpose of this program is to let people set up this program on a host computer and then from a remote computer, type commands into it through AIM and control many different functions, applications, etc.

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.

sushi is an IRC suite providing a central daemon and several clients. It currently consist of - maki: the central IRC daemon - tekka: the PyGTK client - nigiri: urwid terminal client There are more clients to come.