Kiwi IRC

KiwiIRC makes Web IRC easy.
A hand-crafted IRC client that you can enjoy. Designed to be used easily and freely.

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Embed into your own website

Host your own web chat in your own website. Quick and easy, all the hassle is left to us.

Kiwi enable your IRC network

Add webirc settings into your IRC network to get the most kiwi functionality - correct bans, glines, hostnames, sexy channel list and more.

Usable anywhere

Built from the ground up to work across all modern browsers.

Powerful features built directly in your Web IRC client

  • Works in all major browsers
  • Embed into your website
  • SSL encryption
  • No PhD required
  • Usable on any IRC network
  • User friendly menus
  • Tab autocomplete
  • Powerful aliases
  • Input history
  • Full scripting with javascript

One of the most feature complete web based IRC clients available, Kiwi IRC makes it possible to use webirc as much as any other IRC client. While keeping things lightweight and versatile makes it perfect for embedding into your websites.

Most importantly, Kiwi IRC changes mostly as users suggest ideas themselves. You can make your ideas heard over at our issues page.

Recent Updates

File uploads, menu items and more

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A popular request from users (and much needed feature) was more user menu items. This makes its easier to admin a channel without remembering IRC commands so we now have the following new user menu items:

  • Give/take ops
  • Give/take voice
  • Kick a user
  • Ban a user

A community developed Kiwi plugin has now given us file uploads and sharing using the awesome Filepicker.io service. You can share files from your computer, Dropbox, Flicker, Github and many other services. Just drag a file on top of the kiwi client or click the blue upload icon in the bottom right of the client.

Recent client changes

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A lot of updates to the client have been made recently to improve the feature set and generaly all round. Some of the more noticable changes you may see:

  • CLI theme now making use of highlights and activity counters
  • Nick auto-completion now apends ": "
  • /set var_name new_value command to modify settings
  • Timestamps can now be toggled in the default theme
  • Channel key fixes
  • /ignore command now available
  • /script command now shows your user scripts. (more info soon)

Built in Identd server

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A quick server-side worthy mention.
The Kiwi instance running on kiwiirc.com has had a custom identd server running for a while now, helping some networks such as Efnet identify users. This has now been integrated with the kiwiirc code base so others can make use of it, too.

Disabled by default, this can now be enabled via the conf.identd config block.