RuneScript is an IRC bot made for the MMORPG game RuneScape. It is a compilation of scripts that retrieve statistics on players via the hi-scores, and analyze the data it finds to give helpful information to people who request it. It has a whole host of other features too: goal levels, default names, player ranks on hi-scores, price lookups, statistic tracking, and much more.

RuneScript has been in development since early April 2005 as a small project for some bored Runescape players. Since then it has become a large tool for many Runescape users on IRC networks. RuneScript is regularly used by thousands of channels, and on over 30 IRC networks. We serve up to 500 commands a minute at peak times.

RuneScript is actively developed by five people: Cruiser works on the main bot code and IRC. Cynthia works on our upcoming Java port and other general programming. Matt works directly on the bot code. Micksam7 is our server administrator and does all the backend PHP coding that the bot uses as well as the PHP for rscript.org. spling is the project leader and works directly on the bot and the website. RuneScript was created by spling in April 2005, and Cruiser joined the team in that same month. Looce and Micksam7 then joined later that year. Looce to work on the bot directly, and Micksam7 to work server-side. Urza joined us in November 2005, however he no longer works on the project. Matt joined the project in December of 2006 as a bot hoster and became a coder in 2008.

We are very open to suggestions for the bot. We are always looking for more features to add. If you have a suggestion for RuneScript, feel free to post on our forum and tell us. We always consider every suggestion, and we will do our best to add appropriate requests. RuneScript is free for anyone to use. If you want to use it in your room, check out this page.