Open Source Java Bot Frameworks

A chatbot framework currently implementing the ErkiTalk and irc protocol. By specifying parsers for the server's input one can easily create custom bots (if one can program in java of course ;).

Duke is an IRC-bot framework based on PircBot library. It provides extensible IRC messages handling bus, made of modules integrated by Spring IoC container.

Hokan is an IRC bot developed using Java programming language and using PircBot framework. First version development was started around year 2001. Join #HokanDEV@IRCNet to find out more! Current version of Hokan is maintained in GitHub: https://github.com/petria/hokan_ng

JBot is a java framework (inspired by Howdyai's Botkit) to make Slack and Facebook bots in minutes. It provides all the boilerplate code needed so that you can make your bot live right away. Provides you with all the boilerplate code which handles underlying WebSocket connections and other complexities. Supports extra events in addition to all the events supported by Slack/Facebook which makes your work a lot easier. Receiving & sending messages is as easy as defining a @Controller and calling reply(). The conversation feature of JBoss makes talking to your bot a breeze. This feature makes JBot different from than rest of the Java frameworks out there.

This software allows a MUD server to be run as a Jabber bot. Users can then play the MUD using their Jabber client instead of a MUD client or telnet. This relieves the MUD server from having to handle user chat as users can chat in Jabber instead.

a simple, extensible Instant Messenger TOC bot framework written in Java using Jaimlib 0.5 or greater. services for incoming IMs are created simply by implementing a handle() method, and sample handler code is included.

JIB - Java IM Bot, aimed to built a pluggable, customizable, expandable and dynamic bot framework for instant messager. With JIB user can control remote IM Bots over web based interface, configure bots to perform various tasks or custom behavior.

Java IRC Bot is a Java framework for writing IRC bots quickly and easily. Its features include an event-driven architecture to handle common IRC events, flood protection, DCC resuming support, ident support, and more.

Java Wiki Bot Framework helps with wiki (MediaWiki) site management. It allows to build robots to edit and dump information from Wikis. For more information and features see project homepage.

An open source plugin framework built for the PircBot Java IRC Bot Framework

SquirrelTrivia is a Java and PIRC-bot-framework based IRC bot designed specifically for trivia, and plans to include public and private trivia, amd highscores. Attention: Now defunct, please see https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=781270

Here you have an Java-based bot-framework for the WikiMedia-API

This is a bot framework written in Java build upon PircBot( http://www.jibble.org/pircbot.php ). It features Hot Deployment (Modules which can be loaded in runtime) and logging via log4j.

[Please note that this project has now moved to https://github.com/applegrew/jdcbot ] Goal of this project is to create direct connect bot framework written in Java that runs as a client and communicate with DC hubs (DC++, DCGUI...)

jImBot - Java IM Bot, it's a bot framework for instant messager.