Difference between revisions of "Slack with Pidgin via slack-libpurple"
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* https://github.com/dylex/slack-libpurple | * https://github.com/dylex/slack-libpurple | ||
* https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201727913-Connect-to-Slack-over-IRC-and-XMPP | * https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201727913-Connect-to-Slack-over-IRC-and-XMPP | ||
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Install required packages | Install required packages | ||
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Finally, open Pidgin, go to Accounts-> Manage-> Add | Finally, open Pidgin, go to Accounts-> Manage-> Add | ||
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Basic tab: | Basic tab: | ||
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* Username: <your slack username> | * Username: <your slack username> | ||
* Host: yourorg.slack.com | * Host: yourorg.slack.com | ||
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Advanced tab: | Advanced tab: | ||
| − | * API Token: | + | * API Token: <xoxp-blahhhhhasdfas> |
* A few other options here that seem to work, such as download users avatars. | * A few other options here that seem to work, such as download users avatars. | ||
Revision as of 08:18, 16 May 2018
Slack disabled support for XMPP in May 2018 and became yet another closed ecosystem. If you wish to still access it via 3rd party pidgin client, slack-libpurple is one available plugin to do so. Here lies some basic instructions on how to do so on Linux, which is Ubuntu 16 at the time of writing.
- https://github.com/dylex/slack-libpurple
- https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201727913-Connect-to-Slack-over-IRC-and-XMPP
Install required packages
apt-get install build-essential git libpurple-dev pkg-config
Download, compile, install. Doing so as my user, hence make install-user
cd /tmp/ git clone https://github.com/dylex/slack-libpurple cd slack-libpurple make make install-user
This plugin requires an API token for auth. Go here and create one, it should be 70ish characters long:
Finally, open Pidgin, go to Accounts-> Manage-> Add
Basic tab:
- Protocol: Slack
- Username: <your slack username>
- Host: yourorg.slack.com
Advanced tab:
- API Token: <xoxp-blahhhhhasdfas>
- A few other options here that seem to work, such as download users avatars.