FredIRC

FredIRC is an event-driven Python framework for IRC (Internet Relay Chat) bots. It provides a high-level abstraction of IRC’s internals, an easy-to-use API and convenient utilities related to bot development.

Requires: Python 3.3+

License: 2-clause BSD

Warning

While fully usable, FredIRC is still pre-1.0 software and has no backwards compatibility guarantees until the 1.0 release occurs. Please make sure to read the Changelog carefully anytime you upgrade!

Features

The main features are:

• Easy-to-use interface for IRC bots
• Internal event-loop that dispatches high-level IRC events
• Different kinds of tasks which can be scheduled by the user

Links

• Homepage
• PyPI
• Changelog
• Source Code
• Issue Tracker

Documentation

• Installation
• Beginner’s Guide
• API Reference
• Changelog

Contact

If you have problems, questions or ideas for improvement, please use the Github issue tracker or contact me directly via tm[at]tobix[dot].eu.

Development

FredIRC is open source and distributed under terms of the 2-clause BSD license. Contributions (code, documentation, ideas,...) are always welcome!

The source code repository is hosted at Github

Wishlist

• More commands (e.g. KICK, TOPIC,...)
• Querying user modes for other users
• Advanced logging of chat histories
• Allow multiple IRCClient instances and/or to re-run a terminated IRCClient
• SSL-support
• Some kind of plugin system for more flexibility und reusability
• Utility classes for general bot development
• Multiple server connections
• (X)DCC-support
• Port to Python 3.0/3.1/3.2 (maybe by using Trollius)