The recipient gets <IMG ID="30"> instead of the image. Receiving seems to work halfway decently however. (One of two images appeared, that I sent from the web client to another person)

$ make && sudo make install
protoc-c --c_out=. googlechat.proto
protoc-c -o googlechat.proto.desc googlechat.proto
cc -fPIC -O2 -g -pipe -shared -o libgooglechat.so libgooglechat.c googlechat.pb-c.c googlechat_json.c googlechat_pblite.c googlechat_connection.c googlechat_auth.c googlechat_events.c googlechat_conversation.c purple2compat/http.c purple2compat/purple-socket.c  -lprotobuf-c `pkg-config purple glib-2.0 json-glib-1.0 zlib --libs --cflags` -ldl -I/usr/include/protobuf-c -Ipurple2compat -g -ggdb
googlechat_conversation.c: In function ‘googlechat_set_status’:
googlechat_conversation.c:1815:15: error: ‘SetDndDurationRequest’ {aka ‘struct _SetDndDurationRequest’} has no member named ‘has_dnd_expiry_timestamp_usec’; did you mean ‘dnd_expiry_timestamp_usec’?
 1815 |   dnd_request.has_dnd_expiry_timestamp_usec = TRUE;
      |               ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      |               dnd_expiry_timestamp_usec
googlechat_conversation.c:1820:15: error: ‘SetDndDurationRequest’ {aka ‘struct _SetDndDurationRequest’} has no member named ‘has_new_dnd_duration_usec’; did you mean ‘new_dnd_duration_usec’?
 1820 |   dnd_request.has_new_dnd_duration_usec = TRUE;
      |               ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      |               new_dnd_duration_usec
googlechat_conversation.c:1837:25: error: ‘SetCustomStatusRequest’ {aka ‘struct _SetCustomStatusRequest’} has no member named ‘has_custom_status_remaining_duration_usec’; did you mean ‘custom_status_remaining_duration_usec’?
 1837 |   custom_status_request.has_custom_status_remaining_duration_usec = TRUE;
      |                         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      |                         custom_status_remaining_duration_usec
googlechat_conversation.c:1852:1: error: invalid storage class for function ‘googlechat_roomlist_got_list’
 1852 | googlechat_roomlist_got_list(GoogleChatAccount *ha, PaginatedWorldResponse *response, gpointer user_data)
      | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
googlechat_conversation.c:1958:1: error: expected declaration or statement at end of input
 1958 | }
      | ^
make: *** [Makefile:101: libgooglechat.so] Error 1

Thanks for this plugin! I look forward to using it to replace the Hangouts plugin.

I am able to receive messages, but am not able to send them. I am using the lastest Windows DLL from: https://eion.robbmob.com/libgooglechat.dll on Pidgin portable.

The message seems to be sent without error, but the recipient never receives it. Looking at the debug log, it seems that the send action is encountering an error: "googlechat: Error from server: (Invalid HTTP response code (400))". I have attached a debug log of the send action: purple-debug.log

Please let me know if I have a misconfiguration somewhere in my setup or help me understand what could be causing the issue that I am experiencing. Thanks.

Add a check on first launch to ask whether to copy over the prpl-hangouts accounts to prpl-googlechat accounts. Just the password and buddy list, maybe migrate logs later?

I can't compile this on OpenBSD 7.1 with clang or gcc (egcc). The error are: ld: error: unable to find library -ldl

What i can find on the internet are: "On OpenBSD, dlopen() and friends are in libc, and there is no libdl. "

I installed the purple-googlechat plugin yesterday following the Windows section of https://github.com/EionRobb/purple-googlechat/blob/master/README.md, have been seeing consistent crashes either:

• immediately at startup
• randomly within a few hours of starting pidgin

Looking at the debug.log generated from pidgin.exe --debug 2>&1 > "%USERPROFILE%\debug.log", the last log lines are:

(13:15:14) nss: Trusting CN=*.google.com
(13:15:14) certificate: Successfully verified certificate for chat.google.com
(13:15:14) http: Request 0874F000 performed successfully.
(13:15:14) http: Request 0874F498 performed successfully.
(13:15:14) googlechat: Received new other event 058E1C60
(13:15:14) googlechat: {
	"group_id" : null,
	"type" : "SESSION_READY",
	"body" : {
		"group_viewed" : null,
		"message_posted" : null,
		"web_push_notification" : null,
		"event_type" : "SESSION_READY",
		"membership_changed" : null,
		"trace_id" : null,
		"user_status_updated_event" : null,
		"typing_state_changed_event" : null,
		"read_receipt_changed" : null
	},
	"user_id" : null,
	"user_revision" : null,
	"group_revision" : null,
	"bodies" : [
	]
}
(13:15:14) http: Request 0874E8C8 performed successfully.
(13:15:14) http: Performing new request 0874F2A0 to chat.google.com.
(13:15:14) http: Performing new request 0874ED60 to chat.google.com.

The last few log lines look the same (always has that json body with nulls) for all crashes I've seen. Other notes:

• Am running Pidgin 2.14.19 on up-to-date Windows 10 64-bit
• No other plugins are installed or enabled besides the built-in "Release Notification" plugin
• Was previously using pidgin with the same google account except through the built-in gtalk protocol, and wasn't experiencing crashes then
• No other accounts are added in pidgin besides the one google account for gchat

Let me know if any other info is useful, thanks!

This allows sending messages to conversations where history is off. Lightly tested with DMs with conversation history both on and off.

Fixes #22, though I don't know if this is how you want to do this (as opposed to fetching the history setting for the conversation and setting RetentionState accordingly).

As usual, on reconnecting after resuming from sleep.

(17:38:34) autorecon: done calling purple_account_connect
(17:38:34) autorecon: do_signon called
(17:38:34) autorecon: calling purple_account_connect
(17:38:34) account: Connecting to account [email protected].
(17:38:34) connection: Connecting. gc = 0x555557d248b0
(17:38:34) dnsquery: Performing DNS lookup for chat.google.com
(17:38:34) http: Performing new request 0x55555a0c6d00 to www.googleapis.com.
(17:38:34) autorecon: done calling purple_account_connect
(17:38:34) network: Got StateChange from NetworkManager: 40.
(17:38:35) util: Writing file accounts.xml to directory /home/bodqhrohro/.purple
(17:38:35) util: Writing file /home/bodqhrohro/.purple/accounts.xml
(17:38:35) g_log: purple_http_request_set_cookie_jar: assertion 'cookie_jar != NULL' failed

Thread 1 "pidgin" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
purple_http_keepalive_pool_ref (pool=0x21) at purple2compat/http.c:2175
2175		pool->ref_count++;
@(gdb) bt
#0  purple_http_keepalive_pool_ref (pool=0x21) at purple2compat/http.c:2175
#1  0x00007fffec160e1e in purple_http_request_set_keepalive_pool (request=0x55555b2d24b0, pool=0x21) at purple2compat/http.c:2600
#2  0x00007fffec157eb0 in googlechat_longpoll_request (ha=ha@entry=0x55555852ad20) at googlechat_connection.c:442
#3  0x00007fffec157fac in channel_watchdog_check (data=<error reading variable: value has been optimized out>) at googlechat_connection.c:406
#4  channel_watchdog_check (data=<error reading variable: value has been optimized out>) at googlechat_connection.c:389
#5  0x00007ffff72f6744 in g_timeout_dispatch (source=0x555557ef2ea0, callback=<optimized out>, user_data=<optimized out>)
    at ../../../glib/gmain.c:4933
#6  0x00007ffff72f5be4 in g_main_dispatch (context=0x5555556c8780) at ../../../glib/gmain.c:3381
#7  g_main_context_dispatch (context=0x5555556c8780) at ../../../glib/gmain.c:4099
#8  0x00007ffff72f5f88 in g_main_context_iterate (context=0x5555556c8780, block=block@entry=1, dispatch=dispatch@entry=1, self=<optimized out>)
    at ../../../glib/gmain.c:4175
#9  0x00007ffff72f6273 in g_main_loop_run (loop=0x5555579ee6c0) at ../../../glib/gmain.c:4373
#10 0x00007ffff79d8b2a in gtk_main () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#11 0x0000555555591d70 in main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>) at ././pidgin/gtkmain.c:947

Revision: 13ae6b2941e5ea72f728b51e311873236b06e793

Hi, When trying to install the dependencies with pacman I encountered issues. Does this plugin support arch, and if so how would I go about installing it? Thanks!

The FAQ regarding bitlbee in the old hangouts plugin wiki was vague about how one actually did this. You can't store the oauth token as a password, evidently, but there is no other "popup" a la pidgin to input credentials by any other means using bitlbee.

Is there some reason why the initial token cannot be stored as a password? I understand this will occasionally have to be reset; that's fine.

For accounts with two-factor authentication enabled, Google offers what they call "app passwords" which can be generated for use with a particular application that doesn't support two-factor authentication. Supporting that feature is probably easier than fully supporting two-factor authentication.

I shut down Pidgin. Someone else sends a message to a group chat (“space”). I start Pidgin. The message doesn’t appear. Given that the most recent commit was 29 days ago, I believe I am running the head of master as of time of writing (https://github.com/EionRobb/purple-googlechat/commit/b6b824a4764b51316f7be325492575684647e021).

In a group chat, only people with whom I also have an individual conversation ongoing show up as names. People with whom I do not have an individual conversation show up as numeric user IDs, even though in the web UI, their names are visible. Given that the most recent commit was 28 days ago, I believe I am running the head of master as of time of writing (b6b824a4764b51316f7be325492575684647e021).

Even as of commit b6b824a4764b51316f7be325492575684647e021, gif annotations (are there other types?) / gif-embeds within a google chat sequence are showing as a blank line in the chat.

Debug log shows that the image URL within the annotations block is there: "annotations" : [ { "type" : "URL", "start_index" : 0, "length" : 0, "drive_metadata" : null, "user_mention_metadata" : null, "url_metadata" : { "title" : null, "snippet" : null, "image_url" : "https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/proxy/346Jq0h8qPxAVbA_qAO2-ndrpuNHCD6DRGj0cyUtYYhA43JHig5CJHvVBoNBgKbt21z-JzarIp500sWuNWPtKEdIiDQDnVOUqa2MzVBkVYy9dlmK", "image_height" : "498", "image_width" : "498", "url" : { "url" : "https://media.tenor.com/SvI_M9diCWcAAAAC/so-do-it-markiplier.gif" }, "domain" : "media.tenor.com", "should_not_render" : false, "int_image_height" : 498, "int_image_width" : 498, "mime_type" : "image/*", "gws_url" : { "url" : "https://www.google.com/url?q=https://media.tenor.com/SvI_M9diCWcAAAAC/so-do-it-markiplier.gif&source=chat&ust=1669152447408000&usg=AOvVaw0RMcyypxdGTRuSRoZVgZV9" }, "redirect_url" : { "url" : "https://chat.google.com/api/get_redirect_url?url_redirect_token=XXXXXXX" }, "gws_url_expiration_timestamp" : 1669152447409000 },

it would be nice to at least see that URL, as a link, instead of a blank line, that way I can at least decided to click on it.

This may be long, as I tried three times, with different results each time.

1. A friend of mine, running a different linux distro, told me about this. I was told that I should follow the instructions, and when I make a new account, I would see chat.google.com as a protocol option, which would lead me to a youtube video about how to proceed. I cut&Paste the instructions in the ReadMe. I got no errors. Unfortunately, I see no new options under the protocol dropdown when I go to make a new account, under Manage Accounts. This was a few weeks ago.
2. Today, before making this report, I cut&paste the commands again. This time, I noticed that there was some odd character at the start, such that the #!sh wasn't processed, instead being seen as a call to shutdown which didn't happen due to incomplete command. However, it did tell me that everything was at the latest revision.
3. I entered #!sh first, and then cut&paste the rest of the commands. I got a lot of information, and I don't know what may be errors. I still don't have anything new under the protocol options dropdown in the Manage Accounts pane. I'm not a programmer, tho I studied to be one back when Pascal was the language used for teaching. I'm comfortable following directions, and editing files, but am generally ignorant otherwise. These messages seem to be indicating problems in the code.

Note: I'm trying to use the triple backticks to blockquote the messages. I don't know how to otherwise blockquote, and I didn't see it in the markdown info.

sudo apt-get install -y libpurple-dev libjson-glib-dev libglib2.0-dev libprotobuf-c-dev protobuf-c-compiler git make;
git clone https://github.com/EionRobb/purple-googlechat/ && cd purple-googlechat;
make && sudo make install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
libglib2.0-dev is already the newest version (2.72.1-1).
libjson-glib-dev is already the newest version (1.6.6-1build1).
make is already the newest version (4.3-4.1build1).
libpurple-dev is already the newest version (1:2.14.8-1ubuntu2).
git is already the newest version (1:2.34.1-1ubuntu1.5).
libprotobuf-c-dev is already the newest version (1.3.3-1ubuntu2.1).
protobuf-c-compiler is already the newest version (1.3.3-1ubuntu2.1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 26 not upgraded.
Cloning into 'purple-googlechat'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 1935, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (404/404), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (154/154), done.
remote: Total 1935 (delta 261), reused 382 (delta 249), pack-reused 1531
Receiving objects: 100% (1935/1935), 4.35 MiB | 6.16 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (261/261), done.
protoc-c --c_out=. googlechat.proto
protoc-c -o googlechat.proto.desc googlechat.proto
cc -fPIC -O2 -g -pipe -shared -o libgooglechat.so libgooglechat.c googlechat.pb-c.c googlechat_json.c googlechat_pblite.c googlechat_connection.c googlechat_auth.c googlechat_events.c googlechat_conversation.c purple2compat/http.c purple2compat/purple-socket.c  -lprotobuf-c `pkg-config purple glib-2.0 json-glib-1.0 zlib --libs --cflags` -I/usr/include/protobuf-c -ldl -Ipurple2compat -g -ggdb
googlechat_auth.c: In function ‘googlechat_auth_get_dynamite_token_cb’:
googlechat_auth.c:320:27: warning: argument 1 null where non-null expected [-Wnonnull]
  320 |         gint expires_in = atoi(json_object_get_string_member(obj, "expiresIn"));
      |                           ^~~~
In file included from /usr/include/features.h:486,
                 from /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/libc-header-start.h:33,
                 from /usr/include/limits.h:26,
                 from /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/11/include/limits.h:203,
                 from /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/11/include/syslimits.h:7,
                 from /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/11/include/limits.h:34,
                 from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include/glibconfig.h:11,
                 from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gtypes.h:32,
                 from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/galloca.h:32,
                 from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib.h:30,
                 from /usr/include/libpurple/purple.h:36,
                 from libgooglechat.h:25,
                 from googlechat_auth.h:23,
                 from googlechat_auth.c:19:
/usr/include/stdlib.h:362:1: note: in a call to function ‘atoi’ declared ‘nonnull’
  362 | __NTH (atoi (const char *__nptr))
      | ^~~~~
googlechat_events.c: In function ‘googlechat_got_http_image_for_conv’:
googlechat_events.c:269:9: warning: ‘g_memdup’ is deprecated: Use 'g_memdup2' instead [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
  269 |         image = purple_image_new_from_data(g_memdup(response_data, response_size), response_size);
      |         ^~~~~
In file included from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib.h:82,
                 from /usr/include/libpurple/purple.h:36,
                 from libgooglechat.h:25,
                 from googlechat_events.h:23,
                 from googlechat_events.c:19:
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gstrfuncs.h:257:23: note: declared here
  257 | gpointer              g_memdup         (gconstpointer mem,
      |                       ^~~~~~~~
googlechat_events.c:270:9: warning: ‘g_memdup’ is deprecated: Use 'g_memdup2' instead [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
  270 |         image_id = purple_image_store_add(image);
      |         ^~~~~~~~
In file included from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib.h:82,
                 from /usr/include/libpurple/purple.h:36,
                 from libgooglechat.h:25,
                 from googlechat_events.h:23,
                 from googlechat_events.c:19:
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gstrfuncs.h:257:23: note: declared here
  257 | gpointer              g_memdup         (gconstpointer mem,
      |                       ^~~~~~~~
googlechat_conversation.c: In function ‘googlechat_got_buddy_photo’:
googlechat_conversation.c:1079:9: warning: ‘g_memdup’ is deprecated: Use 'g_memdup2' instead [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
 1079 |         response_dup = g_memdup(response_str, response_len);
      |         ^~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib.h:82,
                 from /usr/include/libpurple/purple.h:36,
                 from libgooglechat.h:25,
                 from googlechat_conversation.h:23,
                 from googlechat_conversation.c:19:
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gstrfuncs.h:257:23: note: declared here
  257 | gpointer              g_memdup         (gconstpointer mem,
      |                       ^~~~~~~~
purple2compat/http.c: In function ‘purple_http_request_set_contents’:
purple2compat/http.c:2637:9: warning: ‘g_memdup’ is deprecated: Use 'g_memdup2' instead [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
 2637 |         request->contents = g_memdup(contents, length);
      |         ^~~~~~~
In file included from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib.h:82,
                 from purple2compat/http.h:31,
                 from purple2compat/http.c:22:
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gstrfuncs.h:257:23: note: declared here
  257 | gpointer              g_memdup         (gconstpointer mem,
      |                       ^~~~~~~~
mkdir -p `pkg-config --variable=datadir purple`/pixmaps/pidgin/protocols/16
mkdir -p `pkg-config --variable=datadir purple`/pixmaps/pidgin/protocols/22
mkdir -p `pkg-config --variable=datadir purple`/pixmaps/pidgin/protocols/48
install googlechat16.png `pkg-config --variable=datadir purple`/pixmaps/pidgin/protocols/16/googlechat.png
install googlechat22.png `pkg-config --variable=datadir purple`/pixmaps/pidgin/protocols/22/googlechat.png
install googlechat48.png `pkg-config --variable=datadir purple`/pixmaps/pidgin/protocols/48/googlechat.png
mkdir -p `pkg-config --variable=plugindir purple`
install -p libgooglechat.so `pkg-config --variable=plugindir purple`

I'm not a Windows user, so I can't test the result, but might I suggest Inno Setup? It's used for Visual Studio Code and Delphi, GOG.com uses a modified version of it, and it's by far the simplest, easiest way to build a professional-feeling, full-function Windows installer using open-source tools.

As a starting point, here's an .iss project definition that I wrote for installing Godot games, and the help is quite comprehensive about the syntax of .iss files.

(eg. the "Constants" page gives {reg:HKA\Software\My Program,Path|{autopf}\My Program} as an example that might be useful for looking up the Pidgin install directory to use as the value of DefaultDirName... {autopf} being "Whichever 'Program Files' path corresponds to the user/admin installation mode and 32/64-bitness the installer is running under", the latter of which is controlled by ArchitecturesInstallIn64BitMode and the former of which can be specified without auto-selection via things like {commonpf64} or {userpf} or with only partial selection via {commonpf}.)