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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.
Twitch IRC explained: connect any IRC client to Twitch chatTwitch chat is IRC, so your existing client can join it — server irc.chat.twitch.tv on port 6697, your Twitch name in lowercase, and an OAuth token as the server password. The settings for every client, where to get the token now that the old generator is gone, and how to bot it.
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.
Matterbridge setup guide: one binary, sixteen protocolsMatterbridge relays messages between IRC and Discord, Slack, Telegram, Matrix, XMPP, Mumble and a dozen more. Install it from the community fork — not the stalled original — and the config is one TOML file with three kinds of block.