Adding new accounts to Finch using software

[Matthew Gordon]

d-bus is exactly what I need. Thank you so much!

-- Matthew


Dipankar Sarkar wrote:
> Hi Matthew,
>
> I have played around and found dbus to be the only way of 
> programatically signing in an account, I wrote a bot or two using the 
> pidgin dbus api.
>
>
> Dipankar Sarkar
>
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>
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Matthew Gordon 
> <matthew at virsonainc.com <mailto:matthew at virsonainc.com>> wrote:
>
>     Dearest Pidgin gurus,
>
>     I develop chatbots that talk to users on websites and over instant
>     messaging protocols. I wanted to add the ability for users to have a
>     chatbot login to an instant messaging account simply by entering
>     the IM
>     account information on my website. I have finch running on my
>     server and
>     I've written software that takes the user's account information
>     and adds
>     it to the .purple/accounts.xml file. Is there anyway to sign a new
>     account on to finch programmatically without restarting finch (which
>     would log off all of the other users' IM accounts)? I would very much
>     appreciate any input or ideas :)
>
>     Thanks very much,
>     Matthew
>
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