I don't think there ever was one, but there is now: a budabot IRC module. Yep, that's right. Budabot can now connect and work with IRC!
The module works largely out-of-box, and connects to the Funcom IRC servers by default. Install the module like any other (ie. extract the contents into the Modules folder of your budabot, do a !newplugins if the bot is already online [or reboot]) and /tell bot !help irc
to get details on customizing your connection settings.
So far, it shows log ons/offs. Private chat joins/leaves, and IRC join/leaves/quits. As well as the ingame !logons and char data (level, prof, etc.).
You can also do !onlineirc from ingame to see who's in irc, and just a simple !online in IRC to see who's in-game. That's about as far as I went with the functionality. I intended just to get the basic chat relay going (I wasn't about to re-write all of budabot's commands to work in irc -.-). But I think you'll find what's included more than sufficient for chatting.
More (detailed) information can be found in the helpfile, and as always I welcome any feedback (contact me ingame, or make a post in the support forums [preferred]).
But without further ado: you can
download it hereThanks to idef for the coding help, and to all the various testers that pitched in.