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About Eggdrop Last revised: July 27, 2010
About Eggdrop
Eggdrop was created around December 1993 to help stop the incessant
wars on #gayteen. It spawned from another bot that was in the process
of being written at the time called "Unrest". The purpose of Unrest
was to answer help requests from other bots. The first public release
of Eggdrop was version 0.6, and since then, it has grown into what you
have before you.
Eggdrop is the World's most popular Internet Relay Chat (IRC) bot; it
is freely distributable under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Eggdrop is a feature rich program designed to be easily used and
expanded upon by both novice and advanced IRC users on a variety of
hardware and software platforms.
An IRC bot is a program that sits on an IRC channel and performs
automated tasks while looking just like a normal user on the channel.
Some of these functions include protecting the channel from abuse,
allowing privileged users to gain op or voice status, logging channel
events, providing information, hosting games, etc.
One of the features that makes Eggdrop stand out from other bots is
module and Tcl scripting support. With scripts and modules, you can
make the bot perform almost any task you want. They can do anything
from preventing floods to greeting users and banning advertisers from
channels.
You can also link multiple Eggdrop bots together to form a botnet.
This can allow bots to op each other securely, control floods
efficiently, and even link channels across multiple IRC networks. It
also allows the Eggdrops share user lists, ban lists, exempt/invite
lists, and ignore lists with other bots if userfile sharing is
enabled. This allows users to have the same access on every bot on
your botnet. It also allows the bots to distribute tasks such as
opping and banning users. See doc/BOTNET for information on setting up
a botnet.
Eggdrop is always being improved and adjusted because there are bugs
to be fixed and features to be added (if the users demand them, and
they make actually sense). In fact, it existed for several years as
v0.7 -v0.9 before finally going 1.0. This version of Eggdrop is part
of the 1.9 tree. A valiant effort has been made to chase down and
destroy bugs.
To use Eggdrop, you need:
- Some sort of Unix account
- A pretty good knowledge of IRC and Unix, including how to
compile programs, how to read, and what DCC chat is, at absolute
minimum.
- About 5-7 MB of disk space. The Eggdrop tarball is about 5.4 MB
unpacked.
- Tcl -- Eggdrop cannot compile without Tcl installed on your
shell.
Copyright (C) 1999 - 2025 Eggheads Development Team
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