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Port details
irccat Send events to IRC channels from scripts and other applications
0.4.13 ircnew! on this many watch lists=0 search for ports that depend on this port Find issues related to this port Report an issue related to this port View this port on Repology. pkg-fallout Package not present on quarterly.This port was created during this quarter. It will be in the next quarterly branch but not the current one.
Maintainer: dch@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2026-05-28 09:33:45
Last Update: 2026-05-28 09:30:32
Commit Hash: a16ce82
License: GPLv3
WWW:
https://github.com/irccloud/irccat
Description:
irccat lets you easily send events to IRC channels from scripts and other applications. Features: - TCP listener: cat strings to a TCP port and have them sent to IRC - HTTP listener: send messages and trigger commands via HTTP - Webhooks: receive events from GitHub, GitLab, Sentry, Grafana, and more - Commands: trigger external scripts via IRC messages
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Manual pages:
FreshPorts has no man page information for this port.
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. @sample /usr/local/etc/irccat/irccat.yaml.sample
  2. bin/irccat
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/irccat-0.4.13/catalog.mk
  4. /usr/local/share/licenses/irccat-0.4.13/LICENSE
  5. /usr/local/share/licenses/irccat-0.4.13/GPLv3
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • irccat
Dependency lines:
  • irccat>0:irc/irccat
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/irc/irccat/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install irc/irccat
  • pkg install irccat
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: irccat
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1779022850 SHA256 (go/irc_irccat/irccat-v0.4.13/v0.4.13.mod) = cdf4a61e165e6bac97b61eae2eeb106ecca73f6c0ce144c1db8f674a467eea10 SIZE (go/irc_irccat/irccat-v0.4.13/v0.4.13.mod) = 1148

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SHA256 (go/irc_irccat/irccat-v0.4.13/v0.4.13.zip) = e52d4eff830eb173eef4b615665659766f49bc4b84e58cbf7c5aaa33c03b1726 SIZE (go/irc_irccat/irccat-v0.4.13/v0.4.13.zip) = 55888

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Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
irccat
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest-----n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly-----n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:14:latest-0.4.13--0.4.13---
FreeBSD:14:quarterly--------
FreeBSD:15:latest0.4.130.4.13n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:15:quarterly--n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:16:latest-0.4.13n/a-n/an/a--
Dependencies
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Build dependencies:
  1. go125 : lang/go125
Fetch dependencies:
  1. go125 : lang/go125
There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:
No options to configure
Options name:
irc_irccat
USES:
go:modules zip
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Master Sites:
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  1. https://proxy.golang.org/github.com/irccloud/irccat/@v/
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Number of commits found: 1

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
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0.4.13
28 May 2026 09:30:32
commit hash: a16ce8206fe0b1d2de2bdd1a99aafae627fa907dcommit hash: a16ce8206fe0b1d2de2bdd1a99aafae627fa907dcommit hash: a16ce8206fe0b1d2de2bdd1a99aafae627fa907dcommit hash: a16ce8206fe0b1d2de2bdd1a99aafae627fa907d files touched by this commit
Dave Cottlehuber (dch) search for other commits by this committer
irc/irccat: new port: IRC client daemon with scripting & webhook support

Sponsored by:	SkunkWerks, GmbH

Number of commits found: 1