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[![Language grade: Python](https://img.shields.io/lgtm/grade/python/g/vijaiaeroastro/irccloud.svg?logo=lgtm&logoWidth=18)](https://lgtm.com/projects/g/vijaiaeroastro/irccloud/context:python)
Not maintained anymore. There is a nice websocket based implementation from https://github.com/osm/icka/

# IRC Cloud Keep Alive Utility
A simple heroku application to keep your irccloud connection alive always (without paying :dollar:)!

Let me start this by saying *None of this is illegal*
IRC Cloud has publicly documented their api and different RPC calls they make.
Its publicly listed on github and you can read it here [IRC Cloud Wiki](https://github.com/irccloud/irccloud-tools/wiki).

**IMPORTANT :** In order to get going, please read this blog article which details the usage of this application.
https://vijaikumar.in/keeping-your-irccloud-client-always-connected-for-free

## Requirements
### Heroku
* A Free heroku account
* Python 3.7
* Requests library

**DEBUGGING** There is a `debug_mode` variable in the main loop. If you run into some issues, please set this to True (This is False by default) and share the output from logs.

### For use in your own VPS
Check out [https://github.com/vijaiaeroastro/irccloud.self.git](https://github.com/vijaiaeroastro/irccloud.self.git)

## License
UNLICENSE
Kindly use this.

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