Editing Infobot (section)

== Derived bot projects ==
Infobots running the original Infobot code have become less popular on IRC now, mostly because of the inactivity of the original project. Newer Infobots have additional features. Most of them involve connecting to websites. For example, some bots have a 'weather' module. So someone can ask the Infobot the weather at a certain address, and the Infobot will connect to a weather site and report the up-to-date weather on the chat. Infobots are also useful as calculators, and in currency conversions, word definitions, and many other things which one would otherwise have to open a site for.

A notable fork was blootbot<ref>Juergen Haas, About.com Guide, [http://linux.about.com/cs/linux101/g/blootbot.htm blootbot] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100824165733/http://linux.about.com/cs/linux101/g/blootbot.htm |date=2010-08-24 }}</ref> by Tim Riker. In 2008 it was merged back with the original infobot. The resulting code is now maintained under the original infobot name by Riker.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blootbot.sourceforge.net/|access-date=January 27, 2010|title=blootbot: The slowest and most bloated bot in the world.}}</ref> It uses an [[SQL]] back-end such as [[MySQL]], [[PostgreSQL|PGSQL]], or [[SQLite]] to store factoids.