Adding a new protocol

Eduardo maldauxra-retumado at yahoo.com
Thu May 16 09:01:26 EDT 2019


That's also a good idea. I'll check python-purple.

On 15/5/19 17:48, Eion Robb wrote:
> You could also load the yowsup library directly and write a protocol 
> plugin in Python using the https://github.com/anpetrov/python-purple 
> python plugin loader plugin, without needing to build a client/server 
> setup thing
>
> On Thu, 16 May 2019 at 00:14, Eduardo <maldauxra-retumado at yahoo.com 
> <mailto:maldauxra-retumado at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
>     > What protocol were you thinking of writing for?
>
>     I'm using the yowsup library, with a python client whose only task
>     is to
>     forward the messages to Telegram. My idea is to connect pidgin
>     with that
>     script,  via a shallow plugin doing IPC, for example, or by
>     presenting
>     the yowsup client as a server to pidgin (using a basic protocol).
>
>     Hope that makes sense...
>
>     > There's a skeleton prpl in-tree called nullprpl.c (for 3.x.y
>     >
>     https://bitbucket.org/pidgin/main/src/default/libpurple/protocols/null/
>
>     > or for 2.x.y
>     > [...]
>
>     Thanks a lot Eion! It's exactly what I was looking for. You'll
>     probably
>     hear from me again if I can get something working ;).
>
>     Cheers, Eduardo.
>
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