Howto to Talk with GoogleTalk in Python

admin — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 22:00:18 +0000

I guess everybody know GoogleTalk right now. Linux users like me knows that it ‘s only a Jabber server with SIP extension. Like a lot of people seems to use this, I decided to switch from MSN(suxTm) to this Jabber server, beside it lacks a lot of Jabber features (like offline messaging )

But, how can I send a message to my Gmail Talk in less 10 lines of code. I decided to look at xmpppy .. Ok I get a strange issue w/ secure login ..

As I already use gajim, I decided to look at this code.. Hum, look strange it has the same xmpp module, with the same API, but this one is working.

import xmpp

login = 'Your.Login' # @gmail.com
pwd   = 'YourPassword'

cnx = xmpp.Client('gmail.com')
cnx.connect( server=('talk.google.com',5223) )

cnx.auth(login,pwd, 'botty')

cnx.send( xmpp.Message( "YourFriend@gmail.com" ,"Hello World form Python" ) )

As you can see this is small and simple :) The only issue is to find the right module, and hope the xmpppy will fix that soon.

(In fact gajim team seems to fork the xmpp code due to lack of support. This bug already exists in the xmpppy bug list )

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Howto to Talk with GoogleTalk in Python