July 2008
2 posts
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Pidgin Identica Status Plugin
To go along with this post, I finished the first working version of my pidgin-identica-status plugin today. It pulls an RSS feed from identi.ca, and sets the latest entry as your status in Pidgin. It feels like a hack to me; the Perl API for Pidgin is poorly documented. I set up a Google Code project for it, and would welcome contributors to clean up the code, ad functionality, etc…...
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Perl and Pidgin's API
I’m trying to write a plugin for the Pidgin IM client in Perl that would take your latest post to identi.cafrom an RSS feed and set it as your Pidgin status message. However the Perl API for Pidgin is poorly documented and I’m having trouble. I based a lot of it on the pidgintwitter-plugin. I’m not sure what’s going on exactly though I suspect I’m not passing the URL...