Bug 353901

Summary:	Add support for Facebook chat using Whatsapp-purple
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] telepathy	Reporter:	sombragris
Component:	general	Assignee:	Telepathy Bugs <kde-telepathy-bugs>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	acidrums4+stuff, antkoul, rdieter
Priority:	NOR
Version:	15.08.2
Target Milestone:	Future
Platform:	Slackware
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description sombragris 2015-10-14 16:39:55 UTC

There is a plugin for libpurple enabling communication with Facebook chat (non-XMPP, late 2015). This would be very useful for a lot of users.

The URL for the plugin is https://github.com/jgeboski/purple-facebook

This, and Bug 347317 as well, are the only holdouts that are forcing me to use Pidgin. Thanks for everything!

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 acidrums4 2016-05-02 20:41:51 UTC

I guess everyone here knows this, but on the remote case someone don't: there's also a facebook plugin for bitlbee that is working right now (https://github.com/bitlbee/bitlbee-facebook). Maybe the solution hadn't necessarily involve the purple mechanism. I don't know which of them would be more reliable, but it's just to have the bitlbee one in mind.

I agree too about this and the whatsapp thing (As far as I know, Bitlbee is planning to support Whatsapp on its core, and there's some python plugin for it since a few months) are holding me back to use KTP, since I of the services it supports I just have GTalk/Hangouts. And seems many people are in this situation, too.

Comment 2 acidrums4 2016-05-02 20:43:59 UTC

(In reply to acidrums4 from comment #1)
> I guess everyone here knows this, but on the remote case someone don't:
> there's also a facebook plugin for bitlbee that is working right now
> (https://github.com/bitlbee/bitlbee-facebook). Maybe the solution hadn't
> necessarily involve the purple mechanism. I don't know which of them would
> be more reliable, but it's just to have the bitlbee one in mind.
> 
> I agree too about this and the whatsapp thing (As far as I know, Bitlbee is
> planning to support Whatsapp on its core, and there's some python plugin for
> it since a few months) are holding me back to use KTP, since I of the
> services it supports I just have GTalk/Hangouts. And seems many people are
> in this situation, too.

Oh, and seems someone was doing a Telepathy-Qt connection manager for KTP already, but abandoned:

https://github.com/WeedBilbaoGaming/KtP-facebook-GraphAPI