Open Source Python IRC Clients for Server Operating Systems

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.

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

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.

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

VrS houses two versions. VrS2 the mIRC Script and VrS3 the cross-platform open-source C++ IRC Client. VrS is an IRC Client containing its own skinned Dialog and Popup engines as well as supporting MTS the mIRC Theme Standard.