Welcome to sorzkode's mIRC Scripts Archive - a comprehensive preservation project dedicated to collecting / documenting mIRC scripts.
To preserve mIRC scripting history and culture. By hosting these files on GitHub, my hope is that they can live on for many more years.
Because scripting was my introduction to programming and I believe this is the case for a lot of coders from my generation. Oh, and because nostalgia is one helluva drug.
In the 90s and early 2000s, when IRC was really booming, mIRC was the popular chat client. mIRC allowed users to customize / modify their experience by using the mIRC scripting language (mSL). This was so popular that there were websites dedicated to hosting these user-built scripts. Now, many of those sites no longer exist (see links below for some that do). However, The Internet Archive indexed many of those sites and some of the files can still be found.
- Used a Python script to leverage the Internet Archive's CDX (Canonical URL and Timestamp) API to download any available .zip files from the given sites. The original scrape was for the years of 1996-2008 only.
- Used a script to delete many corrupted folders - original scrape count was nearly 3,000 files but over 1,800 were corrupted.
- Used a script to extract .zip file information and script information to auto generate README files for each script. This isn't perfect and requires some manual verification in the outputted json files. After verification, I can automate creating the readme files. I have completed this for all hawkee files.
- Collection Phase: ✅ Complete (CDX API scraping finished)
- Processing Phase: ✅ Complete (files sorted)
- Documentation Phase: 📝 Ongoing (individual script READMEs)
- Web UI: Build a web UI to browse/sort/filter and download the scripts
- Testing: Manually test scripts in a sandbox environment
- Updated documentation: After testing, include screenshots / demos and notes
- Snapshot Dependency: Only URLs captured by Internet Archive are available
- Temporal Gaps: Some periods may have limited or no coverage
- Metadata Loss: Correlating the .zip files to the corresponding information pages for the scripts can be tricky - even with web scraping
- ✅ Hawkee.com Hawekee Wiki Entry
- 📝 xcalibre.com
- 📝 paIRC.com
- 📝 Other
- 📝 mIRCX.com
- 📝 mIRCScripts.org
- 📝 mIRC.net
- 📝 kegdoctors archive
- 📝 IRC-Scripts.com
Please read carefully before exploring this archive:
- I am not the original author of any scripts in this archive unless explicitly stated
- Historical Preservation Only: All content is archived for educational and historical purposes
- No Support Provided: I cannot provide support, updates, or fixes for any archived scripts
- Not Thoroughly Tested: Scripts have not been tested in modern environments (unless otherwise stated)
- Use at Your Own Risk: Any use of these scripts is entirely at your own discretion
- Legacy Software: Scripts were designed for much older versions of mIRC and Windows
- Potential Security Risks: Some scripts may contain outdated security practices or features
- Educational Value: This archive primarily serves researchers, historians, and those interested in IRC culture
mirc_scripts_archive/
├── README.md (this file)
├── somewebsite/
│ ├── README.md
│ ├── script_name_1/
│ │ ├── README.md
│ │ └── script files...
- Historic mIRC scripts (.mrc, .als, .ini files)
- Original documentation and help files
- Screenshots and usage examples
- Historical information about scripts and authors
- Website backups and archives
- Memories and stories / logs
- Links
- Via GitHub
- Fork this repository
- Add your materials following the established structure
- Create proper documentation using the README templates
- Submit a pull request with details about the contribution
- Provide historical context when possible
- Directly
- Include proper attribution to original authors
- Provide historical context and dating when known
- Use the established folder and documentation structure
- Include disclaimers about testing and compatibility
- Respect copyright and intellectual property rights
- All original copyrights belong to their respective authors
- This archive operates under fair use for historical preservation
- If you are an original author with concerns, please contact me
- Commercial use of archived scripts is not endorsed
Statistics will be updated as the archive grows
- Total Scripts: [To be updated]
- Unique Authors: [To be updated]
- Date Range: 1996-2008 (scraping criteria accross all sites)
- Source Websites: [To be updated]
- Categories: [To be updated]
- mIRCScripts.info
- TECHGEAR007
- Coders-IRC
- IRC Driven
- mxbiteck's mIRCScripts.org Archive
- WikiChip mIRC Scripting Language
This archive operates under the principle of fair use for historical preservation and educational purposes. Individual scripts retain their original copyrights. See individual script folders for specific licensing information when available.
"IRC 4 Lyfe"