Its an old school chat protocol. You can try it for yourself kiwiirc is a website that lets you chat with IRC. You need to pick a network, Rizon is a good network to start with. There are a bunch of different commands you can use but the only ones i found useful are /msg to send a message and /join to join a channel.
For the downloading part you need a client that supports XDCC, and then you can use these commands with your bot of choice
Im sorry for asking this but what is IRC?
Its an old school chat protocol. You can try it for yourself kiwiirc is a website that lets you chat with IRC. You need to pick a network, Rizon is a good network to start with. There are a bunch of different commands you can use but the only ones i found useful are /msg to send a message and /join to join a channel.
For the downloading part you need a client that supports XDCC, and then you can use these commands with your bot of choice