sircbot is a small IRC bot for use with git hooks, cronjobs, scripts etc start the server with: sircbot -s SERVER -n NICK '#channel1' '#channel2' It connects to server and joins given channels. When a channel is joined it creates a unix socket /var/run/sircbot/<#channel> which can connected to with sircbot-send. To send to a connected channel use: echo "$message" | sircbot-send '#channel1' sircbot-send will send everything from stdin to given channel. For every message that goes to the channel, sircbot will run all scripts in /etc/sircbot.d/<#channel>/ with sender, message and channel name as arguments.