mIRC Scripts Archive aka ScriptServ.com
Welcome to sorzkode's mIRC Scripts Archive - a comprehensive preservation project dedicated to collecting / documenting mIRC scripts.
I have completely revamped the website and this repo. For more information on the site, check out this blog post and the About Page. Since the site will now host and serve the files VS GitHub hosting and the site serving, the repo will be more barebones. Now the repo will have all scripts stored through releases - the release tag will = the source and the associated readme will list all scripts in the release with links back to the website.
To preserve mIRC scripting history and culture. At the moment, I believe it is the most complete archive of its kind. There is one archive that is larger that you can check out here: Jawsh's IRC Script Archive. The two archives may be combined in the future.
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.
This project started with a Python web scraping script and archive.org's CDX API. I scraped for all .zip files from many now defunct scripting sites from the years of 1996 - 2008. This represents the majority of the scripts/addons you'll find here, but I have been adding to the collection from other sources.
I have tried cataloging the scripts using Python scripts, good old fashioned elbow grease, and ultimately resorted to the dark side and used local LLM API calls to create metadata files for each script. Even with all those efforts, the cataloging isn't perfect and I don't imagine it will ever be unless the community chips in.
I didn't create any of these scripts. I'm not responsible for updating, maintaining, or providing support for them. I'm also not responsible for any damages caused by your use of them. When cataloging, roughly 100 of these files set off my virus detector which I just ignored as I wasn't executing any of the files. My assumption is that this is mostly false positives or that some of the files (i.e. nukers) are considered malicious. However, that doesn't mean there aren't actual viruses present. How dangerous is a 20 year old virus today? I don't know. I also assume that many of these scripts won't work in modern environments or versions of mIRC. I recommend using them on virtual machines (i.e. something like Windows XP + VirtualBox).
- Script Issues/Comments/Ratings: Use the "Report an Issue" button, comment box, or rating widget on any script's page on scriptserv.com.
- Link Issues/Suggestions: Use the "Report a Broken Link" or "Add a Link" button on the links page.
- Contact Form: Use the contact form for general feedback.
- Guestbook: Sign the guestbook to show some love.
- GitHub Issues: Open an issue for technical issues or feature requests.
- GitHub Discussions: Participate in discussions for more of a message board feel.
All reports and feedback are truly appreciated. Due to dirty spammers, all submissions are manually reviewed.
"IRC 4 Lyfe"