Download WeeChat – Multiplatform Extensible Chat Client

WeeChat is a fast, light and extensible chat client. It runs on many platforms .

WeeChat is:

•  modular: a lightweight core with plugins around
•  multiprotocols: IRC and Jabber (other soon)
•  extensible: C plugins and scripts (Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua and Tcl)
•  free software: released under GPLv3 license
•  fully documented: user’s guide, API, FAQ

Download WeeChat

WeeChat features

General

• light and fast
• available in many languages
• good documentation
• developed from scratch
• multiplatform: GNU/Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X, ..
• actively developed, fast support and bugs correction
• 100% GPL and free

IRC protocol

• IRC standards compliant
• SASL authentication (‘plain’ and ‘dhblowfish’)
• DCC support: files and chats
• smart filter for join/part/quit messages
• CTCP replies customization
• options for target buffer of messages
• IRC proxy
• redirection of IRC commands

Connection

• multiservers connection, with no limit
• soft, background connection
• IPv6 support
• SSL support
• proxy support (http/socks4/socks5)
• autoreconnection

Innovating features

• customizable bars around chat area (including nicklist)
• horizontal and vertical window split
• smart hotlist in status bar: partial or full names of buffers with activity
• keys to jump to last read message and highlights in buffer
• dynamic filtering of lines displayed in buffers
• incremental text search in buffers
• FIFO pipe for remote control
• double charset support (encoding/decoding) by buffer
• aspell support: check spelling with one or more languages for each buffer
• extensible with C plugins or scripts (Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua and Tcl)
• easy script installation with script weeget.py

Other useful features

• [advt]256 colors support
• UTF8 support
• lag indicator
• color for away nicks
• auto completion for nicks, commands and args
• command alias
• auto save chats to files
• everything is customizable
• dynamic setup