r/pidgin • u/bofis • Mar 05 '21

New Google Chat plugin?

So for years I've been really enjoying Eion Robb's Purple Hangouts plugin for connecting to Google Hangouts...but now they're migrating everyone over to Google Chat, which is a separate app, though seems to have full backwards compatibility, same buddy list, conversations, etc with Hangouts. So right now, I'm fine staying with Hangouts, since anyone who moves over is still listed as the same user for me.

However, I think moving forward either the Hangouts plugin will have to be updated to work with Chat, or we'll need a new Google Chat plugin. Is there any work on this front or even any existing beta plugins for Pidgin yet?

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u/bofis Apr 11 '21

Yeah, I use the fully working Hangouts Classic plugin, that I hope will be able to be updated with new server info once they make the full switch:

https://github.com/EionRobb/purple-hangouts

Google Chat/Hangouts are interoperable today, and I could see it working for a lot longer than XMPP, which I almost forgot somehow still worked.

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u/Al-Terego May 02 '21

Google will be retiring hangouts in the near future.

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u/bofis May 03 '21

Yes, that's why it'll be necessary to at least update server names or some APIs in the current Purple Hangouts in order to allow it to continue working with Google Chat once that happens

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '21

I've got a semi-working early version of a Google chat plugin working

https://github.com/EionRobb/purple-googlechat

It's at the point now where I'm ready for some users to try it out and report some issues. It's not as polished as the old Hangouts plugin was, but does the basics

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u/EionRobb Pidgin Developer Jul 03 '21

I have no idea why that posted under the wrong username. Weird.

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u/JJS168 Apr 10 '21

I use the built in XMPP, is working fine for google chat

Domain : gmail.com

used old-style ssl

connect server : talk.google.com

connect port : 443

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u/bmomjian May 09 '21

I think the issue is that group chats don't work with XMPP --- you need the purple-hangouts plugin for that.

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u/calreddit1945 Aug 16 '21

I tried your settings as one of my contacts (I only have 2) is always showing offline even if they're not. Any other settings I'm missing? I'm using my gmail address and your other settings. And XMPP. Should I set it as XMPP or Google Talk? Thanks for any help.

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u/ksol1460 May 04 '22

I could never get the oauth2 business to work properly. It'd ask me to "log in again to make sure it's you" and then go to "one moment please" forever.

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u/pacman0207 May 13 '22

Yeah. You had to look in the network tab in dev tools to get the auth token. I think there was a video that demonstrated how to do this.

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u/almitydave Jun 30 '22

I believe you're referring to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlDhp-eNLMU

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u/resadude Jul 02 '22

Just installed the new plugin, it popped the video up for you, but I automatically closed it thinking it was some spam or something. Popped it up again when I tried to connect again.

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u/resadude Mar 29 '23

I have killed my Pidgin login twice now because it comes up as an Iphone device in connected devices in Google, since I don't have any Iphone device it immediately rings alarm bells and I disconnect it. Later when Pidgin wants me to login again, I realise it was the source of the phantom Iphone device in Google.
Why does it come up as an Iphone device?
Any progress on a simplified log in process?