BitlBee Wiki
We'll use this Wiki to offer better on-line searchable BitlBee documentation.
How to connect to ...
Service (Protocol) | Status |
Plain XMPP (jabber) | Built-in (no special docs needed) |
Google talk (GMail/Google+ chat) (jabber) | Built-in (but no groupchats, see Hangouts) |
Twitter (twitter) | Built-in |
StatusNet (twitter) | Built-in |
StudiVZ (jabber) | Built-in |
NWSChat (jabber) | Built-in |
Hipchat (jabber) | Built-in |
Supported through libpurple, recommended way to use skype | |
GaduGadu | Supported through libpurple |
Supported through libpurple third party plugin | |
Supported through libpurple third party plugin | |
Supported through libpurple third party plugin | |
Supported through libpurple third party plugin | |
Supported through libpurple third party plugin | |
Supported through libpurple third party plugin | |
Star Trek Online (jabber) | Supported through libpurple's jabber |
Supported through libpurple third party plugin | |
Supported through libpurple third party plugin | |
Supported through libpurple third party plugin | |
Supported through libpurple third party plugin | |
Other protocols supported by libpurple | See HowtoPurple |
Facebook (MQTT) | Third party plugin by jgeboski. Replacement for facebook's XMPP |
Third party plugin by meh | |
Third party plugin by meh | |
Third party plugin by sm00th | |
Third party plugin by kensanata | |
Yahoo (yahoo) | Seems dead now, see 'FunYahoo++' above |
Facebook (jabber) | Seems dead now, use Facebook (MQTT) instead |
MSN (msn) | Seems dead now, use skypeweb instead |
Skype with skyped (skype) | Seems dead now, use skypeweb instead |
Skype with spectrum2 (jabber) | Seems dead now, use skypeweb instead |
ICQ (oscar) | Seems dead now, use icyque instead |
Might work but causes account bans | |
Seems dead now (Third party plugin by jgeboski) |
Other third party IRC bridges unrelated to bitlbee, but that you might appreciate:
Service | Bridge | Notes |
Google Hangouts | Python. Useful for groupchats, which gtalk's XMPP doesn't support | |
Campfire | Ruby | |
Matrix | Rust | |
Discord | Python | |
SMS (with 3g modem) | Rust | |
Whatsapp Web | Rust | |
Mattermost | Go | |
Slack | Go | |
Telegram | Python |
Other pages:
- How to do ... (FAQs)
- Plugins/add-ons/etc
- "Bleeding edge" stuff/etc
- IRC client-specific stuff
- Old stuff kept for historical reasons
Group chats in bitlbee using gtalk account (outdated?)
Version reference tables (mostly about the transition from otr 3 to 4)
The main point of this Wiki is that it'll show up in search results for common BitlBee questions/etc.
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