NationCHAT offers free BOTs (and support for them) so channels can have protection, games and utilities even if the founders cannot run their own.
An IRC bot is a program that sits in an IRC channel around the clock, keeping it open 24 hours a day. It looks like a normal user, but is usually idle until called upon to perform a function. A bot can contribute greatly to the stability of a channel by protecting it from takeovers and abusers, keeping the op list and giving ops to those users when they join. It can also log channel events, provide frequently requested information, host trivia games and more.
Eggdrop is the most advanced, most popular, and best supported IRC bot. It provides a staggering array of options for channel management, and can be expanded further with scripts and modules. The code is free to download and use: multiple channels, a flexible userfile structure, DCC chat, multi-language support and a large ecosystem of add-ons.
To request a bot, join #bots from the NationCHAT IRC network and use !request for bot requests and !bots for a list of available bots. The Bots Team Masters can also be contacted in #bots for reports, problems, notes or suggestions. More help is in the bot commands reference.
General channel protection with a language module, protections (antipub, antinotice etc.), modules (badchan, badword, topwords, limit, seen, antidle etc.) and lots of commands to control your channel and your eggdrop.
Constantly updated every 15 minutes, this bot prints the news published by the most important information websites.
This bot has no public commands. Its job is purely to generate statistics for each channel: daily traffic, most active chatters, topic changes and much more, published on a specified website.
Test your knowledge directly in the chat, with a ranking across the channel.
Classic card game of matching colors and numbers, with action cards and wild cards for game-changing fun.
A collector of quotations. Store all the "crap" said in the channel, to laugh over at all times.
Displays your daily horoscopes.
For radio stations that have IRC channels, manage streams, channels, DJs and custom text messages.
Translates every text between 63 different languages.
Gets weather information for any city in the world, actual weather and forecast.
When someone posts a YouTube link in channel, the bot displays information such as the video title, views and likes.
Register the channel with X, keep it active, and ask in #bots. The team will match a bot to what the channel actually needs.