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BitlBee Wiki

We'll use this Wiki to offer better on-line searchable BitlBee documentation.

How to connect to ...

Service (Protocol)	Status
Yahoo (yahoo)	Built-in (no special docs needed)
AIM/ICQ (oscar)	Built-in (no special docs needed)
Plain XMPP (jabber)	Built-in (no special docs needed)
Google talk (GMail/Google+ chat) (jabber)	Built-in (but no groupchats, see 'hangouts' below)
Facebook (jabber)	Seems dead now, use Facebook (MQTT) instead
Twitter (twitter)	Built-in
StatusNet (twitter)	Built-in
StudiVZ (jabber)	Built-in
NWSChat (jabber)	Built-in
MSN (msn)	Built-in
Hipchat (jabber)	Built-in
Skype with skyped (skype)	Requires daemon, may have issues
Skype with spectrum2 (jabber)	Jabber transport (not a plugin), requires daemon, may have issues
Skype with skypeweb	Supported through libpurple, recommended way to use skype
GaduGadu	Supported through libpurple
WhatsApp	Supported through libpurple third party plugin, native plugin in progress
SIPE (Microsoft OCS / LCS / Lync)	Supported through libpurple third party plugin
Telegram	Supported through libpurple third party plugin (see bug)
Star Trek Online (jabber)	Supported through libpurple's jabber
Other protocols supported by libpurple	See HowtoPurple
Steam	Third party plugin by jgeboski
Facebook (MQTT)	Third party plugin by jgeboski. Replacement for facebook's XMPP
Torchat	Third party plugin by meh
Omegle	Third party plugin by meh

Other third party IRC bridges unrelated to bitlbee, but that you might appreciate:

Service	Bridge	Notes
Google Hangouts	pickups	Python. Useful for groupchats, which gtalk's XMPP doesn't support
Campfire	camper_van	Ruby
Slack	Built-in gateway	Both irc and xmpp!

Other pages:

How to do ... (FAQs)
Plugins/add-ons/etc
- BitlBee powered by libpurple
- OTR (Off-the-Record Messaging) with bitlbee
"Bleeding edge" stuff/etc
IRC client-specific stuff
Old stuff
- Group chats in bitlbee using gtalk account (outdated?)
- BitlBee ui-fix branch, now known as BitlBee 3.0

The main point of this Wiki is that it'll show up in search results for common BitlBee questions/etc.

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-We'll use this Wiki to offer better on-line searchable [[http://bitlbee.org|BitlBee]] documentation. Since for now I have no clue how to structure this (and hope that some people will have time to help out), I'll just put some links to articles written so far here:
+We'll use this Wiki to offer better on-line searchable [[http://bitlbee.org|BitlBee]] documentation.
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-  * How to connect to ...
   * HowtoFacebook
   * [[HowtoStudiVZ|HowtoStudiVZ]]
   * HowtoTwitter
   * HowtoIdentica
   * HowtoGtalk (GMail/Google+ chat)
   * HowtoMsnXmpp
+How to connect to ...

|| '''Service (Protocol)''' || '''Status''' ||
|| Yahoo (yahoo) ||<#AAFFAA> Built-in (no special docs needed) ||
|| AIM/ICQ (oscar) ||<#AAFFAA> Built-in (no special docs needed) ||
|| Plain XMPP (jabber) ||<#AAFFAA> Built-in (no special docs needed) ||
|| [[HowtoGtalk|Google talk (GMail/Google+ chat)]] (jabber) ||<#AAFFAA> Built-in (but no groupchats, see 'hangouts' below) ||
|| [[HowtoFacebookXMPP|Facebook]] (jabber) ||<#FFAAAA> Seems dead now, use [[HowtoFacebookMQTT|Facebook (MQTT)]] instead ||
|| [[HowtoTwitter|Twitter]] (twitter) ||<#AAFFAA> Built-in ||
|| [[HowtoStatusNet|StatusNet]] (twitter) ||<#AAFFAA> Built-in ||
|| [[HowtoStudiVZ|StudiVZ]] (jabber) ||<#AAFFAA> Built-in ||
|| [[HowToNWSChat|NWSChat]] (jabber) ||<#AAFFAA> Built-in ||
|| [[HowtoMsn|MSN]] (msn) ||<#AAFFAA> Built-in ||
|| [[HowtoHipchat|Hipchat]] (jabber) ||<#AAFFAA> Built-in ||
|| [[HowtoSkype|Skype with skyped]] (skype) ||<#FFFFAA> Requires daemon, may have issues ||
|| [[HowtoSkypeWithSpectrum2|Skype with spectrum2]] (jabber) ||<#FFFFAA> Jabber transport (not a plugin), requires daemon, may have issues ||
|| [[HowtoSkypeWeb|Skype with skypeweb]] ||<#FFAAFF> Supported through [[HowtoPurple|libpurple]], recommended way to use skype ||
|| !GaduGadu ||<#FFAAFF> Supported through [[HowtoPurple|libpurple]] ||
|| [[HowtoWhatsapp|WhatsApp]] ||<#FFAAFF> Supported through [[HowtoPurple|libpurple]] third party plugin, native plugin in progress ||
|| [[HowtoSIPE|SIPE (Microsoft OCS / LCS / Lync)]] ||<#FFAAFF> Supported through [[HowtoPurple|libpurple]] third party plugin ||
|| [[https://github.com/majn/telegram-purple|Telegram]] ||<#FFAAFF> Supported through [[HowtoPurple|libpurple]] third party plugin ([[http://bugs.bitlbee.org/bitlbee/ticket/1178|see bug]]) ||
|| [[HowtoSTO|Star Trek Online]] (jabber)  ||<#FFAAFF> Supported through [[HowtoPurple|libpurple]]'s jabber ||
|| Other protocols supported by libpurple ||<#FFAAFF> See [[HowtoPurple]] ||
|| [[https://github.com/jgeboski/bitlbee-steam|Steam]] ||<#AAFFAA> Third party plugin by jgeboski ||
|| [[HowtoFacebookMQTT|Facebook]] (MQTT) ||<#AAFFAA> Third party plugin by jgeboski. Replacement for facebook's XMPP ||
|| [[https://github.com/meh/bitlbee-torchat|Torchat]] ||<#AAFFAA> Third party plugin by meh ||
|| [[https://github.com/meh/bitlbee-omegle|Omegle]] ||<#AAFFAA> Third party plugin by meh ||

Other third party IRC bridges unrelated to bitlbee, but that you might appreciate:

|| '''Service''' || '''Bridge''' || '''Notes''' ||
|| Google Hangouts || [[https://github.com/mtomwing/pickups|pickups]] || Python. Useful for groupchats, which gtalk's XMPP doesn't support ||
|| Campfire || [[https://github.com/zerowidth/camper_van|camper_van]] || Ruby ||
|| Slack || [[https://slack.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/201727913-Connecting-to-Slack-over-IRC-and-XMPP|Built-in gateway]] || Both irc and xmpp! ||


Other pages:
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-   * [[GtalkGroupchats|Group chats in bitlbee using gtalk account]]
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-   * [[HowToNWSChat|NWSChat and BitlBee]]
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+   * [[VersionReference|Version reference tables]] (which bitlbee versions work, what OTR version numbers mean)
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-  * Bleeding edge stuff/etc
   * [[UiFix|BitlBee ui-fix branch, now known as !BitlBee 3.0]]
+   * [[SelfMessages|Self-messages]]
  * Plugins/add-ons/etc
   * [[HowtoPurple|BitlBee powered by libpurple]]
   * [[bitlbee-otr|OTR (Off-the-Record Messaging) with bitlbee]]
  * "Bleeding edge" stuff/etc
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   * [[bitlbee-otr|OTR (Off-the-Record Messaging) with bitlbee]]
   * [[bitlbee-sipe|SIPE, including Microsoft's OCS (Office Communications Server)]]
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   * [[GtalkGroupchats|Group chats in bitlbee using gtalk account]] (outdated?)
   * [[UiFix|BitlBee ui-fix branch, now known as BitlBee 3.0]]
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-The main point of this Wiki is that it'll show up in search results for common BitlBee questions/etc.
+The main point of this Wiki is that it'll show up in search results for common !BitlBee questions/etc.