Eggdrop
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Eggdrop is a popular IRC bot. It was originally written in the December of 1993 by Robey Pointer to watch a single channel. It is written in the C programming language, and features an interface for scripts that allow the user to enhance the functionality of the bot. The language used in the script interface is Tcl.
In its time, the eggdrop has become one of the most popular IRC bots. Many of the bots that are run by normal IRC users (as opposed to the bots run by IRC Operators, which are usually the network services like ChanServ and NickServ) are eggdrops.
Due to its popularity, the eggdrop has a plethora of different scripts available for inclusion, most of them written by users. The additional features provided include such things as trivia games, file distribution mechanisms (usually via the Direct Client-to-Client protocol) and random pejorative insults of other users on the channel.
It also features such uses as a botnet, which allows one to link multiple IRC bots together to act in a coordinated fashion, i.e., sharing information about users, performing actions when other bots die (shut down), and setting a ban on a person in each channel synchronously. People connected to any bot on the botnet via DCC CHAT or telnet are also able to communicate with each other within the botnet on various channels (channel 0, the default, is referred to as the "party line"), in a sort of miniature IRC.
Support
The Official Eggdrop help channel on IRC is #eggdrop on UnderNet.
Eggdrop help is also available on the IRC channel #egghelp on EFNet, freenode and IRCNet. (The EFNet channel #eggdrop is not currently [Apr 2005] a help channel, and has not been for some time, if ever.)
There is also a help channel for Tcl programming, and the Eggdrop specific extensions to Tcl on UnderNet called #tcl.
See also
External links
- Official eggdrop development site (http://www.eggheads.org)
- Slennox' eggdrop page - eggdrop help, scripts and more (http://www.egghelp.org)de:Eggdrop