About

In short, this Open Source project is all about providing IRC regulars, channel operators and bot owners with comprehensive ways of archiving and querying their IRC logfiles. The software itself is licensed under version 2 of the GNU General Public License.

What is the IRC Collective?

The most important part of the IRC Collective is the parser. It's modular architecture makes the parser more flexible in the way it can process input and handle output. The output of the parser is primarily used to add to an SQL database that can in turn be queried by say a web application. The IRC Collective provides the user with all three of them. The parser can be extended by defining new input formats and output handlers.

How can it be useful?

It can help you stay up to date on the IRC channels that you visit regularly.
Write your own applications on top of the SQL database.
You can search past conversations using the web interface (results will be paged).

Overview

Graphical overview of IRC Collective

Features

Parser

Parse IRC logfiles
Process a single logfile or an entire directory
Supports Eggdrop, Irssi, mIRC and X-Chat format
Output to an SQL database
Definable inputformats and outputhandlers
Supports MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite as database backend
Fetch web content
(planned) Output to CSV, XHTML and XML
(planned) Support other logfile formats
(planned) Using threads to speed up fetching web content

Web application

Highlighted paged logfiles
Logfile archive using a hyperlinked calendar
Search
Links
Browsable image gallery
(work in progress) Create conversations
(work in progress) Create quotes
(work in progress) Pastebin
(planned) Advanced search
(planned) Statistics

See the roadmap page for future IRC Collective features.

History

For historical background information that pre-dates this project you can click here.