Not a spam, pidgin status and youtube

[Srikant]

On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Sanket Agarwal
<sanket at sanketagarwal.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Srikant <srikant at fossee.in> wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > This might be someone's interest.
> > I have written a python code to update pidgin status with currently
> played
> > youtube video. This presently works with
> > firefox only.
> > Link to script: https://github.com/srikantpatnaik/pidgin-youtube
> >
> > Srikant
> >
> >
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> Hi Srikant,
>
> it's a good starting point to start getting a feel of Pidgin :-). I
> have a few, though small suggestions that might pip up the plugin you
> wrote.
> * You can take advantage of the DBUS api which has python bindings.
> It'll give you a LOT more control over pidgin's internal -- but it has
> a drawback that it's support is only limited to linux.
> * It's not wise to set status every 2 seconds, that might actually be
> throwing away too many messages at the server. You will want to have
> some eventloop which triggers on URL change -- or something similar.
>
> If you wish to visit some of the most horrible plugins I wrote:
> https://github.com/snktagarwal/pidgin-plugins
>
> Cheers
> --Sanket
>

Hello Sanket,
Thanks for suggestion. I will try as soon as I get some time. I've seen
your plugins and other work, they are impressive.

Srikant
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