Simon Willison’s Weblog

Introducing Yardbird. I absolutely love it—an IRC bot built on top of Twisted that passes incoming messages off to Django code running in a separate thread. Requests and Response objects are used to represent incoming and outgoing messages, and Django’s regex-based URL routing is used to dispatch messages to different handling functions based on their content.

# 22nd May 2009, 11:13 pm / django, irc, regular-expressions, threading, twisted, yardbird

How we use IRC at Last.fm. With IRCCat, an elegant Java IRC bot that accepts Twitter-like messages to a network port (generally sent using netcat) and directs them to a user or channel.

# 8th January 2009, 7:04 pm / irc, irccat, java, lastfm, nc, netcat, richard-jones

Mibbit (via) Excellent web-based IRC client, should be great for when pesky firewalls get in the way. Also a good candidate for use with a site-specific browser.

# 19th April 2008, 3:53 pm / ajax, irc, mibbit, sitespecificbrowsers

Active on IRC in the past hour. New Django People feature in collaboration with Brian Rosner—DjangoBot now provides information on currently active IRC participants. There’s an opt-out privacy control and the bot sends you a message about it the first time it logs your activity.

# 12th April 2008, 12:58 am / django, django-people, irc, python

Django IRC FAQ. Frequently asked questions from the Django IRC channel.

# 20th February 2007, 10:07 am / django, faq, irc