Writing an IRC bot has never been easier!

import chitchat as cc

bot = cc.Bot('your.favorite.server', port=6667)

@bot.on('CONNECTED')
def bootup(*args):
    yield cc.identify(nick='Chitchat', user='v1', password='chitchatrocks!')
    yield cc.join('#chitchatdev', '#mycoolchannel')

@bot.command('!hello')
def hello(prefix, command, target, message):
    yield cc.privmsg(target, 'Hello, ' + prefix.nick + '!')

if __name__ == '__main__':
    bot.start()

"Hmph! Every IRC library does this!", you might say, you ol' grump. But where Chitchat outshines its competitors isn't only in simple "hello, world" scripts, but in complicated, high-functioning bots that Get Stuff Done.

• Asynchronous Commands: so your long-running housekeeping tasks won't disrupt your bot's service!
• Simple, Pythonic API: with Chitchat everything is right where you expect it!
• Vast Extensability: there's nothing your Chitchat bot can't do!

Check out the docs for more information. If you're in need of some inspiration, take a look at our collection of real-world examples!

• Test coverage and more documentation
• Add numeric support for all large IRC networks; currently only supporting Freenode on top of RFC-defined numerics
• Add logging support
• CTCP and IRCv3 support
• Public API cleanup
• Add line-splitting support for long (>512 char) messages with textwrap
• Release!