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{{short description|IRC bot written in Perl, free software}}
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{{Infobox software
| name                   = Infobot
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| author                 = [[Kevin Lenzo]]
| developer              = 
| released               = 1995
| latest release version = 1.5.3
| latest release date    = {{release date and age|2008|08|01}}
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| programming language   = [[Perl]]
| operating system       = [[Unix-like]]
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| genre                  = [[IRC bot]]
| license                = [[Artistic License]]
| website                = {{URL|http://infobot.sourceforge.net/}}
}}
'''Infobot''' is a [[Perl]] [[IRC bot]], first written in 1995 by [[Kevin Lenzo]]. The bot's main goal was to remember [[Uniform Resource Locator|URLs]] and associate them with a descriptive name, so whenever someone needed a specific URL they could ask the bot. For that reason, the first Infobot, running in #macintosh on the [[EFnet]] [[Internet Relay Chat|IRC]] network, had the nickname 'url'.

Although the main project is now inactive, many [[fork (software)|forks]] from the original program were made, some of which are still active. Most of these forks carry extra features, such as [[googling]] a phrase given through the chat and saying the results of the query as messages directly in the chat.