pisg, short for Perl IRC Statistics Generator is a popular open-source

Open-source software

Open-source software is computer software that is available in source code form: the source code and certain other rights normally reserved for copyright holders are provided under a software license that permits users to study, change, improve and at times also to distribute the software.Open...

 Internet Relay Chat

Internet Relay Chat

Internet Relay Chat is a protocol for real-time Internet text messaging or synchronous conferencing. It is mainly designed for group communication in discussion forums, called channels, but also allows one-to-one communication via private message as well as chat and data transfer, including file...

 (IRC) log file analysis

Analysis

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 and statistical visualization program. It is written in perl

Perl

Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular...

 by Morten Brix Pedersen. It analyzes various formats of log file

Log file

The term log file can refer to:*Text saved by a computer operating system to recored its activities, such as by the Unix syslog facility*Output produced by a data loggerAlso see Wikibooks chapter...

s from IRC clients and bots and generates HTML

HTML

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 pages containing statistics about the channel the logs were taken from. It is often considered a competitor to mIRCStats, a similar shareware

Shareware

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 program.

pisg supports many log formats, including: mIRC

MIRC

mIRC is an Internet Relay Chat client for Microsoft Windows, created in 1995 and developed by Khaled Mardam-Bey. Although it is a fully functional chat utility, its integrated scripting language makes it extensible and versatile....

, Trillian, Eggdrop

Eggdrop

Eggdrop is a popular IRC bot and the oldest still in active development.- Development History :It was originally written by Robey Pointer in December 1993 to help manage and protect the EFnet channel #gayteen....

, irssi

Irssi

Irssi is an IRC client program for Linux, Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X. It was originally written by Timo Sirainen, and released under the terms of the GNU General Public License in January 1999.-Features:...

, and more, and can be customized to work with other log file formats. Because it is open-source, pisg has an active community for further developing log interpreters. pisg runs on basically any platform with perl, including Linux

Linux

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, BSD, Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows

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 and Mac OS X

Mac OS X

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.