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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)	Seems dead now. See 'FunYahoo++' below
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
SIPE (Microsoft OCS / LCS / Lync / Skype for Business)	Supported through libpurple third party plugin
Telegram	Supported through libpurple third party plugin
Hangouts	Supported through libpurple third party plugin
VK	Supported through libpurple third party plugin
FunYahoo++	Supported through libpurple third party plugin
Star Trek Online (jabber)	Supported through libpurple's jabber
Other protocols supported by libpurple	See HowtoPurple
WhatsApp	The libpurple plugin is abandoned and no longer works
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
Discord	Third party plugin by sm00th
LINE instant messenger protocol	Third party plugin by mvirkkunen

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:

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

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+|| [[https://bitbucket.org/olegoandreev/purple-vk-plugin|VK]] ||<#FFAAFF> Supported through [[HowtoPurple|libpurple]] third party plugin ||
|| [[https://github.com/EionRobb/funyahoo-plusplus|FunYahoo++]] ||<#FFAAFF> Supported through [[HowtoPurple|libpurple]] third party plugin  ||
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+|| [[HowtoWhatsapp|WhatsApp]] ||<#FFAAAA> The libpurple plugin is abandoned and no longer works ||
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+|| [[http://altrepo.eu/git/line-protocol|LINE instant messenger protocol]] ||<#AAFFAA> Third party plugin by mvirkkunen ||
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+   * [[SendNewlines|Send a multi-line message]]
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+   * [[UnixSockets|Using unix sockets to connect from your irc client]]