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Life & fun · February 20, 2016

Herodotus – An IRC bot that logs a channel's activity to JSON

An IRC bot written in node.JS that logs a channel's activity and saves it to JSON, JSONL, Markdown, or CSV - egladman/herodotus

Herodotus – An IRC bot that logs a channel's activity to JSON launched on February 20, 2016 with 18 votes, #1,916 of 4,386 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

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Herodotus is an IRC bot written in Node.JS that records channel conversations and exports them to multiple formats including JSON, JSONL, Markdown, and CSV. It's designed for IRC channel operators and administrators who need to maintain searchable archives of their chat history. The bot automatically logs all channel activity and stores it in a structured format suitable for analysis or long-term record-keeping.

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