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)

Built-in (may stop working on 2015-04-30, see Facebook (MQTT) below)

Twitter (twitter)

Built-in

StatusNet (twitter)

Built-in

StudiVZ (jabber)

Built-in

NWSChat (jabber)

Built-in

MSN (msn)

Broken due to lack of MSNP18 support

Hipchat (jabber)

Built-in, but has issues

Skype with skyped (skype)

Built-in, but requires daemon

Skype with Spectrum2 (jabber)

Jabber transport (not a plugin), requires daemon

GaduGadu

Supported through libpurple

WhatsApp

Supported through libpurple third party plugin

SIPE (Microsoft OCS / LCS / Lync)

Supported through libpurple third party plugin

Telegram

Supported through libpurple third party plugin (see bug)

Other protocols supported by libpurple

See HowtoPurple

Steam

Third party plugin by jgeboski

Facebook (MQTT)

Third party plugin by jgeboski

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:

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