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dylex / slack-libpurple

slack-libpurple

Slack module for libpurple

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Slack module for libpurple

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2020	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2021	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2022	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2023	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	2
2024	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2025	2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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CalRobert·Jan 31, 2025

Good point - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSCAR_protocol Though the lack of a reverse engineered Slack protocol (remember when they had an IRC bridge?) suggests companies are better at preventing this now. Edit: apparently there's https://github.com/dylex/slack-libpurple at least!

In Discord’s advertising push continues

djha-skin·Mar 6, 2023

Eion Robb has done an incredible amount of work in this space. His GitHub page[1] has tons of plugins, and I particularly appreciate the work he has done on the Matrix plugin to make it available to Windows users. Lest you think this is less than cool because you don't use Pidgin, bitlbee[2] is a great tool to get slack (and others!) into your IRC client. I haven't run it myself, but I know that it heavily relies on purple[3] for its magic. I can tell it gets a lot of use, perusing the issues on the slack purple plugin[4] for example. 1: https://github.com/EionRobb?tab=repositories 2: https://www.bitlbee.org/main.php/news.r.html 3: https://wiki.bitlbee.org/ 4: https://github.com/dylex/slack-libpurple/issues?q=is%3Aissue...

In Purple-Teams: MS Teams Plugin for Pidgin (2022)

djha-skin·Feb 14, 2023

Unpopular opinion number one: Teams is not that bad. At least it can do video calls properly which is not something I would say of Slack. Unpopular opinion number two: Pidgin was better and I don't why we all decided as an industry to go to these ridiculously heavy memory hog electron based clients. I use Slack from Pidgin to this day: https://github.com/dylex/slack-libpurple

In GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023

JeremyNT·May 27, 2021

It's not IRC, but there exists a working libpurple plugin that you just auth as with your normal user account: https://github.com/dylex/slack-libpurple I just use it with Pidgin, but there are curses clients too (I'm aware of bitlbee, there are probably others) if you prefer the IRC-style experience.

In One week of Libera Chat

pmlnr·Nov 21, 2019

https://github.com/dylex/slack-libpurple

In Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible

comex·Jul 22, 2019

> 4. A few good, Open Source native ports already exist, and people are just unaware of them. Native GUI clients: - Ripcord: https://cancel.fm/ripcord/ - Wey: https://github.com/yue/wey ("written in Node.js with native UI powered by the Yue library") - Volt: https://volt-app.com IRC bridges (allow using Slack from native IRC clients): - wee-slack: https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack - irc-slack: https://github.com/insomniacslk/irc-slack - bitlbee: http://bitlbee.org (using libpurple) libpurple plugin (allows using Slack from Pidgin, Adium, bitlbee): - https://github.com/dylex/slack-libpurple - Adium (native macOS app) plugin based on it: https://github.com/victori/slack4adium CLI clients: - https://github.com/erroneousboat/slack-term - https://github.com/haskellcamargo/sclack - the emacs one you mentioned Most of these clients don't su

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pport 100% of Slack's features, aren't as pretty, and are generally not as 'polished' as the official client. But they're also mostly written by individuals in their spare time, as opposed to a team of full-time employees. So no, I don't think that native clients are 'actually a lot harder to build and maintain'.

In When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop

dig1·Jan 13, 2019

bitlbee[1] + slack-libpurple[2] will work with any IRC client. [1] https://www.bitlbee.org [2] https://github.com/dylex/slack-libpurple

In Using Slack through an IRC client