Top 6 C libpurple Projects

purple-facebook

14 954 0.0 C

Facebook protocol plugin for libpurple (moved from jgeboski/purple-facebook)

Project mention: How can I forward Facebook messenger messages to email? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-24

I can't think of any way.
There is a Facebook plugin for Pidgin, and you can get at your chats that way with a more versatile cross-platform messenger, if you are more normally on other chat services.
https://pidgin.im/
https://github.com/dequis/purple-facebook/wiki
If you want web-based clients, try a multi-app client such as Ferdium, RamBox or Station.

bitlbee

4 587 3.9 C

An IRC to other chat networks gateway :bee:

Project mention: How Beeper Mini Works | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-05

ah didn't realize it had gone away. its successor appears to be [0]
now I'm reliving the chaos of the late-00s/early-10s instant messaging apocalypse when AOL sunsetted AIM. Clients like Trillian were absolutely necessary before AIM shut down. Everybuddy was a good linux-friendly client. When I still spent time on IRC, I really really liked Bitlbee [1] with ERC [2].
(I'm not saying that there's a connection there, but rather that all the chat protocols started getting used less around the same time for the same reason, which was smartphones becoming commonplace in late-00s.)
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayttm
[1] https://www.bitlbee.org/
[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/erc.html

WorkOS

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The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
lurch

5 279 0.0 C

XEP-0384: OMEMO Encryption for libpurple.
slack-libpurple

4 270 2.0 C

Slack module for libpurple
purple-gowhatsapp

10 261 7.5 C

Pidgin/libpurple plugin for WhatsApp Web.
purple-signald

2 147 6.6 C

Pidgin libpurple bridge to signald.

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