Pidgin and conference via Google Hangouts

I have a question about Pidgin and Google Hangouts.

Private chats work in Pidgin, all fine.
But how can I get an existing conference in Pidgin via Hangouts?

skamander

Posted 2013-07-13T18:48:34.323

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Any news about this? There's already a third party client written in Python... https://github.com/tdryer/hangups

– None – 2015-10-24T11:24:57.590

5You can't as of now; Hangouts doesn't use XMPP which Pidgin uses communicating with Google Talk – Sathyajith Bhat – 2013-07-13T19:05:59.200

Answers

Good question, unfortunately it's not supported by Pidgin yet. Pidgin uses the XMPP standard to talk to Google Hangouts, Google Chat, Google Talk, etc. However, Google hangouts with multiple people (conference room) does not use XMPP. Using the web interface or mobile app is probably your best option right now.

tbenz9

Posted 2013-07-13T18:48:34.323

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Is this still current? – Alexandre Nizoux – 2015-06-05T12:14:13.030

1@AlexandreNizoux, as far as I know this is still current and most likely won't change. If I remember correctly, Google Chat used to support XMPP chat rooms, but when they moved to Google Hangouts they removed that functionality. It's unlikely they will go back to their old method of doing group chats. – tbenz9 – 2015-06-05T20:08:35.147

A Hangouts plugin is (currently, at least) one of Pidgin's 2015 Summer of Code projects: https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/SummerOfCode2015 . No guarantee of any results, of course, but it does indicate there is an interest.

– tecu – 2015-06-07T02:29:27.733

Thanks @tbenz9 and tecu for the information. I'll monitor that. – Alexandre Nizoux – 2015-06-08T09:14:41.823

A plugin is available for pidgin for Google hangouts called: Hangouts Plugin for libpurple https://bitbucket.org/EionRobb/purple-hangouts/

Christopher Tate

Posted 2013-07-13T18:48:34.323

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