Is it possible to make a bot that combines an AIM blast chat with an
IRC channel?
reddit / irc

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aidrocsid · 2012-10-17 14:38

I'm a member of a community that is basically split between IRC and
AIM Blast and about half of each won't budge, but if we could somehow
set up a bot that posted messages from one to the other, that would be
pretty cool. Can it be done?

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pikacharmeowth · 2012-10-17 17:20

Yeah - IRC bots/clients are simple, especially if you are just reading
and writing messages to a specific channel. There are really
straightforward tutorials online. This could be done pretty easily in
python or perl.

I've never written an AIM client but you can find some information
about AOL's OSCAR protocol
[here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSCAR_protocol).

So, you write an IRC client, you write an AIM client, and you have a
small app that takes received messages from one and sends them via the
other.

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WOFall · 2012-10-17 20:47

You might want to look into bitlbee or minbif, rather than writing two
clients.