Some time ago Facebook announced that they were abandoning the protocol XMPP for your chat system and therefore applications such as Pidgin, Empathy and so on would stop working. From the announcement to the fact it took a long time, because a couple of days ago it stopped working Pidgin as a messaging client for Mark Zuckerberg's social network.
But all is not lost, now we can use A plugin using open protocol MQTT (MQ Telemetry Transport), which is the same as you use Facebook for application on mobile phones. I have tried it and it works perfectly, we just need to make some adjustments. Let's see how to do it.
Install the plugin
ArchLinux users using AUR don't need to do much, just open a terminal and put:
$ yaourt -S purple-facebook
Now, the rest of the mortals can follow the steps explained in Humans, which are the following:
1- We download the latest version of the plugin:
2- In the case of Ubuntu / Debian we must install the necessary dependencies to compile the plugin:
$ sudo apt install libjson-glib-dev libglib2.0-dev libpurple-dev
3- We open a terminal where we download the plugin and execute:
$ tar xvf purple-facebook - *. tar.gz $ cd purple-facebook- * $ ./configure $ make $ sudo make install
Where the asterisk symbol is replaced by the number of the released revision and that complements the name of the folder. And that's it..
How to configure our account?
If we already have a Facebook account set up in Pidgin, we just have to edit it and do the following:
1- We choose the new protocol:
2- It will automatically change the window with the data that we must put and something like this will come out:
In the username we can put our main Facebook email, the username but without the @ chat.facebook.com behind or your phone / cell number associated with your account.
And that's all dear friends .. we can chat again with our Facebook contacts through Pidgin.
Friend Elav, Mark Shuttleworth is the CEO of Canonical, Mark Zuckerberg is the CEO of Facebook.
Greetings and Thanks for the tip.
HAHAHAHA, if I know, I know .. it seems that I was thinking about Ubuntu when I wrote the post, and since they are both called Mark, then the automatic went away hahaha. I already corrected it, thanks ..
Thank you elav !!!!!!!!! for days I could not connect, this comes from knobs, since I can not see the start of facebook, I only use their chat.
regards
You're welcome .. It's something that was affecting me too, because many times I don't want to go to Facebook but I do need to talk to friends and family ..
Hello I tested what they published in the post and I was able to connect, however, whenever I write something, it tells me that I have to wait a few seconds to write again ??? I have to configure something else ?? Thank you
Mmm weird, it doesn't happen to me ...
I deleted my account when I knew that I would stop using XMPP since the little thing I liked about it was that I could use a client that I wanted. The article arrives a little late but I do not regret deleting the account: v
You can always create another 😀
Is there any way that it works with Emphaty?
No idea, this tip is only for Pidgin .. 🙁
any suggestion with this
https://blog.desdelinux.net/conectarnos-chat-facebook-pidgin/#comment-135109
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I installed Emphaty and imported the account from pidgin and it works fine.
for empathy it is only necessary to change the ssl certificate, since that is the one that causes the problem
throw me this «error»
make [1]: exits the directory «/ home / dashtlx / Desktop / purple-facebook-4098e875ebcb / purple-facebook-4098e875ebcb / pidgin / libpurple / protocols / facebook»
make [1]: enter the directory «/ home / dashtlx / Desktop / purple-facebook-4098e875ebcb / purple-facebook-4098e875ebcb»
make [1]: Nothing is done for "all-am".
make [1]: exit the directory «/ home / dashtlx / Desktop / purple-facebook-4098e875ebcb / purple-facebook-4098e875ebcb»
what am I doing wrong?
thks
By the way, Excellent Blog!
I have the same drama, did you solve it? how? .. thanks… greetings!
I had the same problem on Ubuntu. I looked for the plugin in the software center, I just typed "facebook pidgin" and it appeared, installed it and everything is fine. Regards.
Thanks for the information, I thought I had changed something in the facebook settings, but I couldn't find anything and with this it already worked for me; only to indicate that he did not let me modify the old Cta .; but I had to delete the previous one and add a new one.
Dear gentleman creator of the post, could you tell me what theme and font are you using in your environment when taking the screenshots?
Thank you very much
Window Style: Breeze
Window Theme: Evolvere Light
Typography: Tahoma
regards
they never remember us wearing fedora
We are not to blame for the few who use that thing called Fedora ..
HAHAHA, just kidding, just kidding .. I suppose you can compile the plugin from the Source that is in the download link .. it shouldn't be complicated ..
😉
Look, you can also use the jitsi that is made in java mail on any platform and has for xmpp, facebook and googletalk
Is there any way to install it to Pidgin in Windows?… ..By the way I miss the penguin to go up xD
I answer myself 😛
It is in another language, but it is understood
http://www.informateque.net/se-connecter-a-facebook-avec-pidgin-sans-le-protocole-xmpp/
Is there something like that for android?
Since emacs has always worked in the best way through Bitlbee you have https://wiki.bitlbee.org/HowtoFacebookXMPP and with the new protocol https://wiki.bitlbee.org/HowtoFacebookMQTT really easy to use with no additional settings and completely without leaving emacs!
thank you che, tested and working, appreciated! Cheers
Finally. This info is very useful. I was able to reconnect after several days without this chat. Thank you.
Excellent!! Thank you. I implemented it 😀
excellent tutorial. served me. greeting!
Aaaaaaaaa it works perfectly! Thank you very much friend 😀
Hello! Very useful, at least I already know why my Fb account has stopped working, but is there a way to implement the plugin in Windows? I'm very clumsy with these things and I can't find anything about it TT
Thank you!
hello look len I have the same problem as you so if you could when you solve give me a touch to my email thanks is jesusrh21@gamil.com
Many thanks. It has been very useful. I use Linux Mint 17.2 and now it works perfectly.
Hello, the post is very explanatory but I use windows, could you help me with that?
Good morning can someone help me I am trying to install the plugin in suse and it gives me this error
configure: error: Package requirements (glib-2.0> = 2.20.0 gobject-2.0) were not met:
No package 'glib-2.0' found
No package 'gobject-2.0' found
Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.
Alternatively, you may set the environment variables GLIB_CFLAGS
and GLIB_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.
Does anyone know all the dependencies there is to have
Gentoo users and derivatives (Sabayon, Calculate) have x11-plugins / purple-facebook at Portage.
can someone please help me on debian it returns this error configure: error: not acceptable C compiler found in $ PATH
See `config.log 'for more details
I configured it like this and apparently it tries to connect, but it gives me "Incorrect username or password" even if I put everything right. I've already checked the username and pass a lot of times and nothing ...
This is what I was seeing to do that same in Windows, I hope it helps you.
https://github.com/dequis/purple-facebook/wiki/Installing-on-Windows
Can I later delete the purple-facebook- * folder from the download section?
Hello in Windows I cannot connect the transport.
Hello, how do I get the number of the artery? I don't understand what number to write down or where to find it
Greetings and congratulations for the great publication of this topic, please kindly post in a didactic way «How to Install Facebook in Pidgin on the Linux Fedora LXDE 32 Bits Operating System,
Thank you in advance for your kind attention, help and prompt responses.
Hello, this is quite useful. For a long time I had wanted to use it but had not seen the usefulness. Just a question, any way to add the Gmail account? Many thanks.
I got the following error Could not connect to b-api.facebook.com: SSL connection failed if anyone can help me I would appreciate it. Cheers
Hello, I need the certificates. It gives me a problem with SSLs. Thanks in advance
Oh and it's from windows