This isn't my snippet, but due to an extreme lack of seeing this type of snippet out there, I'm posting my friend Talon's snippet.

It's just a snippet for a bot, say if you have a shoutcast server, that'll query the server, and announce the song.

;#########################################
; Modify User/Pass/Host/Port then use
; "/cshout" to connect and fill hash table
; YOU WILL GET * Line too long: $+ ERRORS!
; what can i say, im lazy and mIRC SUX!
;#########################################
alias ShoutData { 
  if ($isid) {
    if ($1 = user) { return ***** }
    if ($1 = pass) { return ***** }
    if ($1 = host) { return ***** }
    if ($1 = port) { return ***** }
    if ($1 = Accept) { return CURRENTLISTENERS;PEAKLISTENERS;MAXLISTENERS;REPORTEDLISTENERS;AVERAGETIME;SERVERGENRE;SERVERURL;SERVERTITLE;SONGTITLE;SONGURL;IRC;ICQ;AIM;WEBHITS;STREAMHITS;STREAMSTATUS;BITRATE;CONTENT;VERSION;INDEX;LISTEN;PALM7;LOGIN;LOGINFAIL;PLAYED;ADMIN;UPDINFO }
  }
}
;#########################################
; $ShoutInfo(<data>) Improper use of this
; alias will return all possible choices
; Just look at the Accept in ShoutData
;#########################################
alias ShoutInfo {
  if ($istok($shoutdata(accept),$1,59)) { return $hget(ShoutInfo,$1) }
  else { return *** Improper Usage: use one of the following: $shoutdata(accept) }
}
alias SShout { sockwrite -n $1- }
alias CShout { hfree -w ShoutInfo | sockopen ShoutCast $ShoutData(host) $ShoutData(port) }
on *:sockclose:ShoutCast: { 
  echo -a Closed Scoket?
}
on *:sockopen:ShoutCast: {
  if ($sockerr > 0) { sockclose $sockname | return }
  else {
    SShout $sockname GET /admin.cgi?mode=viewxml HTTP/1.1
    SShout $sockname Authorization: Basic $encode($+($ShoutData(user),:,$ShoutData(pass)),m)
    SShout $sockname Referer: $+(http://,$ShoutData(host),:,$ShoutData(port))
    SShout $sockname User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
    SShout $sockname Host: $+($ShoutData(host),:,$ShoutData(port))
    SShout $sockname Connection: Keep-Alive $+ $str($crlf,2)
  }
}
on *:sockread:ShoutCast: {
  if ($sockerr > 0) return
  :nextread | sockread -f %temp
  if ($sockbr == 0) return

  var %match = $regsub(%temp,/^HTTP\/1\.0 200 OK/g,$null,%temp)
  var %match = $regsub(%temp,/^Content\-Type\:text\/xml/g,$null,%temp)

  var %MaxLen = 900 | dec %MaxLen $len(%BackBuffer)
  var %Srch = $+(%BackBuffer,$mid(%temp,1,%MaxLen))
  inc %MaxLen | var %BackBuffer = $mid(%temp,%MaxLen)

  var %match = $regex(ShoutData,%Srch,/<(\w+?)>(.*?)<\/\1?>/msg)
  var %x = 0 , %y = 1 | while (%x < %match) { inc %x
    if ($istok($shoutdata(accept),$regml(ShoutData,%y),59)) { hadd -m ShoutInfo $regml(ShoutData,%y) $regml(ShoutData,$calc(%y + 1)) }
    inc %y 2
  }
  %match = $regsub(%temp,/<(\w+?)>.*?<\/\1?>/g,$null,%temp)
  if (%temp) { 
    var %match = $regsub(%temp,/<\?[^>]>/g,$null,%temp)
    var %match = $regsub(%temp,/<\![^>]>/g,$null,%temp)
    %BackBuffer = $+(%BackBuffer,%temp)
  }
  goto nextread
}