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Is there any other way to work with Facebook Chat, now that XMPP is gone?
by ipsum2 12y ago
Is there any other way to work with Facebook Chat, now that XMPP is gone?
- jwise0 12y agoAs far as I understand, no. (A request for an API to write a desktop client was the top "most-liked" comment on the Messenger-platform blog post, which is how I found out about this.)
- grandalf 12y agoDirectly via the graph api. Simpler than xmpp. Someone recently posted a graph api chat example.
- MBlume 12y agoDo we know if Adium/pidgin are likely to update to use that API, or is it too early to say?
- baudehlo 12y agoSomeone will build it. But it still just adds another proprietary API to the arsenal. Ugh. I echo other sentiments here: what exactly is broken about XMPP that companies keep moving away?
- timonovici 12y agoSomebody already said it: while using the chat through a different client than their web chat, you're not looking at their ads, you're not installing their proprietary mobile app, and so on.
- jwise0 12y agoYou have to be an app developer for that to work: /me/threads is accessible only to developers of an app, and there is no permission that you can grant to an app to make it work. Otherwise, you get: { "error": { "message": "(#298) You must be a developer of the application", "type": "OAuthException", "code": 298 } } You get this even if you try to use the Graph API Explorer tool to view /me/threads.
- vlad003 12y agoCan you link to the example? I've been interested in doing something like this, but as far as I can tell, you can only read messages using the Graph API; there's no method for sending messages.
- le_lenny_face 12y agoSupposedly this? https://github.com/jgeboski/bitlbee-facebook https://github.com/jgeboski/bitlbee-facebook I think this one already uses the Graph API directly.
- iso8859-1 12y agoThis looks very good, did someone try it out?