Irclogger is a basic bot software that functions as a client on IRC servers, allowing users to log messages and conversations for later reference in 50 words.
One of its most significant advantages is its privacy feature. Users can set passwords on log files, change them, and can't remove them. Additionally, irclooger is a minimalistic tool that only obeys the minimum IRC commands required to log or not a channel. The rest of the features can be carried out through a web browser. Each logged phrase becomes a part of the web with its URL.
The developer couldn't find a bot satisfying these criteria, as most of them had bloated functionalities of dubious benefits. Moreover, many of them had terrible amounts of ugly perl code that wasn't appealing to the developer. In his search, the developer stumbled on a nice but unfinished python bot "logger" created by Sean B. Palmer and Dan Connolly, which he used as a base for irclooger and added HTML view of the logs.
Irclogger consists of two parts; the python IRC client, which writes text logs in the MIRC format, and CGI shell scripts. The CGI shell scripts are used from a web server to format the logs into HTML and provide searching in them. In conclusion, irclogger stands out with its minimalistic design, good privacy features, and its ease of use, making it an excellent software for web developers.
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