BitlBee Wiki

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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 / Skype for Business)

Supported through libpurple third party plugin

Telegram

Supported through libpurple third party plugin (see bug)

Hangouts

Supported through libpurple third party plugin

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

Discord

Third party plugin by sm00th

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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