Irssi is a text terminal-based IRC client. It is completely themable and extensible through Perl scripts, of which many have already been written by the community.

Plug-ins add support for other protocols like SILC and ICB.

Package irc provides a simple IRC library meant as a building block for other projects.

Srain is an IRC client written in GTK. It aims to be modern and easy to use while still remaining useful to power users. It also has partial support for the IRCv3 protocol.

ircII is a terminal based IRC and ICB client for UNIX systems.

This package provides a synchronization tool for IRC chat history.

This extension lets you script the glirc IRC client using Lua. To use it, you must tell glirc exactly where to find glirc-lua.so by adding something like this to your ~/.config/glirc/config:

extensions:
  * path: "../../.guix-profile/lib/glirc-lua.so"
    args: ["example.lua", …]

Also ensure that example.lua finds any Lua libraries it needs, e.g., by setting LUA_PATH and LUA_CPATH in glirc's run-time environment.

WeeChat (Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat) is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client, which is designed to be light and fast. The client uses a curses frontend, and there are remote interfaces for Web, Qt, Android, and Emacs.

Everything in WeeChat can be done with the keyboard, though it also supports using a mouse. It is customizable and extensible with plugins and scripts.

InspIRCd is a modular Internet Relay Chat server written in C++ for Unix-like operating systems.

This package provides a library of tests for various IRC protocol parsers

This package provides an IRC library for Python, based on asyncio.

ii (Irc it) is a minimalist FIFO and file system based IRC client.

Modified version of Supybot with Python 3 and IRCv3 support, embedded web server, translations (fr, fi, it, hu, de), and many other enhancements and bug fixes.

KVIrc is a IRC client based on the Qt GUI toolkit.

catgirl is a TLS-only terminal IRC client.

Notable features include:

• Tab complete: most recently seen or mentioned nicks are completed first. Commas are inserted between multiple nicks.

• Prompt: the prompt clearly shows whether input will be interpreted as a command or sent as a message.

• Split scroll: keeps the latest messages in view while scrolling.

• URL detection: recent URLs from a particular user or matching a substring can be opened or copied.

• Nick coloring: color generation based on usernames remains stable across nick changes. Mentions of users in messages are colored.

• Topic diffing: the modified portion of a channel topic change is highlighted.

litterbox is a TLS-only IRC logger. It logs events from IRC in a SQLite database, indexing messages for full-text search. It is intended for use with the IRC bouncer pounce, but can also be used independently as a logging bot.

Glirc is a console IRC client that focuses on providing both high-detail and concise views of an IRC connection. All views and transformation are dynamic and don't change the underlying model. It also provides advanced line-editing features including syntax-highlighting, multi-line buffering, and argument placeholders.

Package irc provides a simple IRC library meant as a building block for other projects.

Snuik is an IRC bot in Guile Goblins. It has some basic functionality only, such as greeting, feed, identify, info, seen, tell, and what.

This is a python extension which provides string comparison and matching functions from Atheme. They are hand-optimized for high performance when matching IRC hostmasks.

sic is a simple IRC client, even more minimalistic than ii.

Kirc is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client. It includes support for Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL), the client-to-client (CTCP) protocol, simple chat history logging, synchronous message handling, multi-channel joining at server connection, full support for all RFC 2812 commands, and customized color scheme definitions.

Quassel is a distributed IRC client, meaning that one or more clients can attach to and detach from the central core. It resembles the popular combination of screen and a text-based IRC client such as WeeChat or irssi, but graphical.

The country converter (coco) automates the conversion from different standards and version of country names. Internally, coco is based on a table specifying the different ISO and UN standards per country together with the official name and a regular expression which aim to match all English versions of a specific country name. In addition, coco includes classification based on UN-, EU-, OECD-membership, UN regions specifications, continents and various MRIO and IAM databases.

Supported classification schemas: APEC, BASIC, BRIC, CC41, CIS, Cecilia 2050 classification, DACcode, EEA membership, EU membership, EXIOBASE 1 classification, EXIOBASE 2 classification, EXIOBASE 3 classification, Eora, FAOcode, G20, G7, GBDcode, GWcode, IEA, IMAGE, IOC ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, ISO 3166-1 numeric, MESSAGE 11-region classification, OECD membership, REMIND, Schengen region, UN membership, UN numeric code, UN region, WIOD classification, ccTLD.

This package provides a Python library for ISO 639 standard that is concerned with representation of names for languages and language groups.