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IRC bots: from eggdrop to your first ten lines of PythonBots are half of IRC's culture: loggers, games, ops helpers, bridges. The classic bot software, the etiquette rules that now have teeth, and a minimal Python bot to start from.
IRC services and tools worth knowing: the ecosystem around the chatIRC is more than the chat window. Network services that guard your identity, search engines that index hundreds of networks, bridges to Discord and Matrix, history and paste tools, statistics sites — the supporting cast that makes IRC actually usable in 2026.
Writing an IRC bot: from a raw socket to something you'd actually runWriting an IRC bot is the classic weekend project because the protocol is just lines of text. Here's the whole arc: a working bot in raw Python you fully understand, then how to do it properly with TLS, SASL, reconnection and a real library — plus the etiquette that now has teeth.