Facebook Chat in Adium
Good news, Facebook fans! I’ve just finished adding Facebook Chat support to Adium for the next release 
Good news, Facebook fans! I’ve just finished adding Facebook Chat support to Adium for the next release
May 9th, 2008 at 12:13 am
I love Adium every day!!!! and my friends too!
May 9th, 2008 at 12:14 am
Great! Very fast indeed!
May 9th, 2008 at 12:19 am
YES YES YES YES YES YES!!!! YOU GUYS ROCK! Facebook did a terrible thing when they made chat. You just reversed the problem!
May 9th, 2008 at 12:21 am
awesome news!
May 9th, 2008 at 12:25 am
Buy him some beer ladies and gentlemen.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:36 am
That or hate him forever! just what i need more people in my contact list that i never talk to!
Just kidding!
(sort of) nice to see Adium keeping up to date
May 9th, 2008 at 12:47 am
yes please!
May 9th, 2008 at 12:56 am
Is this going into 1.2.6, or do we have to wait for 1.3?
May 9th, 2008 at 1:01 am
We aren’t planning on a 1.2.6 release before 1.3.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:09 am
According to this
http://coderrr.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/facebook-chat-api/
It was RE so does that mean pidgin will receive this aswell or just adium specific?
May 9th, 2008 at 3:18 am
Yay great news!
Any idea on when we would get this?
May 9th, 2008 at 4:17 am
Cheers Evan, and Zac, and whoever else chipped in. Works great so far!
May 9th, 2008 at 5:41 am
Nice! This is the reason I love Adium. Rapid development.
Now, if you could only fix the broken MSN so it doesn’t swallow offline messages….
May 9th, 2008 at 8:09 am
Very nice work.
@Håvard: The libpurple branch with msnp15 + uncommited patches is stable enough for normal use and much more reliable than the old msnp9 version in my experience with them both. So hopefully it will be enabled in time for 1.3.
May 9th, 2008 at 10:38 am
Thanks alot. Now I won’t have to keep facebook.com open, for friends that don’t use any other form for IM.
May 9th, 2008 at 10:44 am
I’ve compiled a nightly build that includes this for anyone that wants to try it out. Details here:
http://elidourado.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/facebook-chat-in-adium/
May 9th, 2008 at 11:25 am
Excellent! This is fantastic news!
Great work, Adium team!
May 9th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Hey there, great work!
I did have three questions:
1) can the Facebook chat api deliver the offline contacts information?
2) can we bind Facebook contacts into the metacontacts we have in groups other than the “Facebook” group?
3) is there anyway to have one’s facebook status used as one’s global status setting? I set my facebook status via twitter, so just using twitter would work as well; I haven’t checked to see if Adium can just monitor one’s Twitter status…
Anyway, thanks again!
-RS
May 9th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
1) The chat stuff can’t, but the normal facebook API could, probably. But I don’t think we’d implement it—the API is an extra-added layer of annoyance.
2) Yep.
3) We’re currently talking about how we want the “social networking status” to behave, with talks about how we’d integrate Twitter into Adium. I’m of the opinion—and I’ll probably implement it this way—that Twitter friends should be contact list entries, but that mostly relies upon having a status events window/log. We’ll see.
May 10th, 2008 at 12:07 am
You are awesome! I love Adium!!!
May 10th, 2008 at 1:34 am
Eli’s build works! Try it out!
May 10th, 2008 at 1:43 am
And support for Myspace.com IM protocol?
May 10th, 2008 at 2:13 am
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May 10th, 2008 at 2:43 am
Myspace IM has been in Adium for several releases now.
May 10th, 2008 at 2:46 am
It’s Adium-specific. I don’t know whether the Pidgin team are also planning to add an implementation.
May 10th, 2008 at 3:55 am
Sweet! Great news
Now if Adium could just add inbuilt Windows Live A/V support, Offline Messaging and Personal Messages, I’ll be dumping Messenger for Mac & iChat.
May 10th, 2008 at 4:06 am
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May 10th, 2008 at 4:06 am
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May 10th, 2008 at 4:36 am
mo7amed, are you just announcing what this thread is for Arabic users? From my limited Arabic, that’s what it seems like. If so, شكرا جزيلا
May 10th, 2008 at 7:21 am
“…with talks about how we’d integrate Twitter into Adium.”
Saawwweeeeeeetttt. Adium Devs Rule. and of course Pidgin devs too.
“And support for Myspace.com IM protocol?”
Are you serious!?
May 10th, 2008 at 9:27 am
What happens where you’re actually on Facebook? Can you be ‘Offline’ on the site, but online in Adium?
May 10th, 2008 at 9:36 am
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May 10th, 2008 at 10:45 am
Nice!
*uses Eli`s Release :D*
May 10th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
We have a pretty big group called “Make Facebook IM OPEN with XMPP (aka Jabber)” going on Facebook
Hopefully Adium will not have to rely on Facebook’s closed API for much longer
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=15400426431
May 10th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
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May 10th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Is there any hope of QQ just working without having to find a server and port info? The QQ for Mac application at http://im.qq.com/qq/mac/ just works without needing to add such things. I am sure Adium could make QQ protocol just work too, no? If you need a QQ number to test, you can get them for free in English now at http://signup.qq.com/
May 10th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
@Eli i’ve tried the facebook implementation on your nightly build - it appears that there is a major bug in it.
for example: after it has been connected for a certain period of time it simply refuses to update who is on/offline. i have confirmed by logging onto my facebook account and comparing the people online in chat to those listed in adium.
May 10th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
The update is only polled every 3 minutes, I think. This is the same amount of time the facebook website uses. It is not a push/pull status updating system.
May 10th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
sorry that was my point it stops updating - has been left for over an hour without updating to the new online contacts
May 10th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
@Mark I’m not seeing this issue with Eli’s build - my Facebook contacts are connecting/disconnecting and Adium continues to work, showing a relatively accurate (within the 3min window) of people online.
Regards,
Shane.
May 10th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
It’s possible the connection was in some way interrupted. I don’t think there’s any error recovery in that department yet.
May 10th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Here is a new nighty build (08-05-11) with the icon issue solved: http://upload.moigneu.net/Adium-080511.zip
May 10th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Adium avec plugin Facebook…
Alors que l’équipe vient d’annoncer l’arrivée prochaine du chat Facebook au sein de cette merveilleuse application, je vous est concocté une petite nighty build aux oignons (08-05-11) :
Télécharger Adium avec le plugin Facebook……
May 10th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Oh, god, please no. I don’t want to be *that* accessible.
May 11th, 2008 at 12:09 am
[...] Adium blog revealed that its next release will support Facebook chat. [...]
May 12th, 2008 at 9:36 am
And now for Twitter support….Twitterific sucks.
May 12th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
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May 12th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
[...] Facebook Chat, descubro que en Adium, el popular cliente de mensajería instantánea para Mac OS X incorporará en la próxima versión el reciente Facebook Chat, sumandose este servicio a los no pocos que en la actualidad posee este cliente. [...]
May 12th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
[...] night, Adium, arguably the best chat client for Mac OS, announced that they would be integrating Facebook chat in their next release. This will bridge Facebook, AIM, Gtalk, Yahoo! Messenger and [...]
May 12th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
I was just thinking about this!!
great idea guys!
May 13th, 2008 at 8:06 am
Wow!!! Cool! Thanks to the developers!!!
May 13th, 2008 at 10:39 am
[...] it’s already been broken and Digsby currently supports it in their chat client and it’s around the corner for Adium, too. So what was the point? Why make it harder for everyone if they know it’s just going to [...]
May 13th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
Cool little addition, here’s to hoping for adium 2.0 to come along nice and quick. all the clients with video support are GARBAGE.
May 14th, 2008 at 3:21 am
“And now for Twitter support….Twitterific sucks.”
Hopefully Adium devs won’t BASE 64 encode your password!
May 14th, 2008 at 8:15 am
heh, it seems this effort was not needed: http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=110 B-)
May 14th, 2008 at 9:28 am
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May 14th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
[...] Adium, som er en glimrende klient for alle mulig chat-protokoller på Mac, holder alt på med sin støtte for Facebook chat. [...]
May 15th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
Evan has squashed the login bug, so I’ve got a new build up.
http://elidourado.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/facebook-chat-in-adium/
May 15th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
Awesome, great work! One thing though, I think the buddy icons in the contact list should be the sqaure thumbnail profile pics from facebook.
May 16th, 2008 at 3:17 am
Still waiting for a proteus importer before I make the switch over to Adium…any idea how much longer it will be?
May 16th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
You may be interested in this: http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=110
May 16th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Tina, how about this http://adiumxtras.com/index.php?a=xtras&xtra_id=2810?
May 17th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
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May 18th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
yeah facebook rules
May 19th, 2008 at 2:05 am
It would be good if the QQ login still worked like it used to a few weeks ago - updated protocol, procedure etc
May 19th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
You are my hero(es)
May 20th, 2008 at 12:09 am
what happened with facebook? i was having trouble with it connecting so i re-installed adium and now its completely gone? i have the latest version and everything… is it something you guys are working on?
May 20th, 2008 at 11:52 am
Just so you know, I’m having issues when I log into Facebook. Seems that Facebook does not like having me logged in at two places or something. I can access it just fine until I log into Facebook and then it kicks Adium off the network.
May 20th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
So when is 1.3 expected to be officially released?
May 21st, 2008 at 10:26 am
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May 21st, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Here’s a version that can be used on 1.2.5+ (instead of having to download 1.3svn)
http://rapidshare.com/files/116558869/Facebook.AdiumPlugin.zip
May 23rd, 2008 at 1:14 pm
@Jeremy Nicoll: As far as I can tell, it’s not possible to be logged into the Facebook Chat web interface (which is what Adium also uses) in two locations, and logging in via Adium counts as a location.
May 25th, 2008 at 8:38 am
Thank you Vanilla Ice!
May 25th, 2008 at 9:09 am
@JeremyNicoll The behavior I have been getting is that while logged into Facebook with Adium, and then going to the Facebook website after a while Facebook website logs me out. It does this even if I turn chat off in the website. In case it matters, I use Firefox 3.
May 25th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
YOU DA MAN!
May 26th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Jason, this happens with any browser. it is to do with the conflict of being logged-in in 2 places at once.
May 28th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Hello…
It seems that I have some problem with this…
I installed the plugin (doubleclicked on the plugin), and then it sais that it worked well.
When I try to find Facebook under the add account-menu, I cannot see it. Is there some settings wich have to be done?
May 28th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Oh goodie! :] If I could hug the Adium duckie, I would right now. Means I can actually stay in touch with my non-IM friends.
But I do have a question, with Adium right now… if another user logs on with your name, it kicks you (naturally). Would it do the same if you log into Facebook? Just a curious thought.
~Amber
June 2nd, 2008 at 12:30 pm
This might be a bug: when I’m logged in, I can send messages and see who’s online, but I never receive messages. Any ideas?
June 4th, 2008 at 12:51 am
Awesome, Thanks Evan.
June 5th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
I know that OS X’s Address Book doesn’t support Facebook contacts, but is there any way you could trick it (put something in the Notes field, idk) such that Facebook contacts who also have AIM screen names (for one example) show up as one entry in the contact list?
June 6th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
oh my god. the odds of me getting my masters has just been sliced in half.
thank you.
June 6th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
…so when is the nex release of Adium comming out?
June 7th, 2008 at 9:14 am
@joe
How about reading….. http://trac.adiumx.com/roadmap
It says Adium is never releasing a new version!
June 11th, 2008 at 9:54 am
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June 12th, 2008 at 3:19 am
im sorry. im very un-techy but i love both adium and facebook, so how do i get to use facebook chat on adium? help will be much appreciated
June 19th, 2008 at 7:44 am
Facebook Chat, much like Genesis, worked six days for me, and on the seventh it just stopped working altogether. The status window says it is connected. I cannot initiate any conversations, but when i am chatted via Facebook, an adium message window pops up with an 8 digit number rather than the Facebook name of the person. A Facebook group is not created in the contact list, and I get a yellow service sphere in the tab at the bottom of the message window.
Since I am 1.3b3, can i infer from this that something has changed on Facebook’s end?
June 19th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
The same problem as daviavdavid….. 1.3b3 and no Facebook contacts list, and “contact as numbers” when someone speaks to me
June 19th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
wow ! very great feature ! thanks for adding that and keep your it up for the new 1.3 series development !
June 19th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
mine stopped working also, my facebook contacts will not show up
June 20th, 2008 at 3:51 am
No worky for me either, it was working about a week ago but now struggles to logon and there are no contacts when it does.
It was great when it did work though, well done, good luck developing a fix!
June 20th, 2008 at 11:49 am
I had the exact same experience as davidavdavid did. I was wonderful while it lasted.
June 21st, 2008 at 1:26 am
Same problem. The facebook account says it’s connected, but there is absolutely no facebook contact list anywhere to be found. It worked for about a week. Nice try guys. I enjoyed it while it lasted. Let us know when it’s fixed.
June 21st, 2008 at 11:49 am
Same behavior here as davidavdavid.
June 21st, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Hmm..This login-problem began after I installed v1.3b3.
So I hope there will be an update ASAP
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:36 am
yea fix itt man come on
June 24th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Hi,
I just downloaded Adium a few days ago and so far I love it. I am also on Facebook all the time and love the idea of the Facebook chat being integrated into Adium, I can’t seem to make this happen. Can you please let me know exactly what it is I need to do? I went into the Add accounts tab but the Facebook logo is not there…help!
Thank you
Shawna
June 25th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
Just installed 1.3b3 - Facebook chat also broken here as described above. Noone shown as online, anyone who talks to me has an 8 digit number in place of their name, and the yellow sphere next to their name in the IM window. Hope it’s fixed soon as it would be a killer feature!
June 26th, 2008 at 4:06 am
Yep, also broken for me, with the same symptoms as described by davidavdavid above.
Really looking forward to seeing this working again
June 26th, 2008 at 7:24 am
I, too, am having the problem described by some above — Adium will log into Facebook, but no contacts come up — but also I cannot receive messages in Adium from FB friends who try to send FB Chats my way. The only evidence I have that FB is connected is that it shows up as so in the menu. Looking forward to having this working, and I will happily play guinea pig for any/all developers who need a good solid super-user in the house.
June 26th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Please note that the comments section of the blog is the wrong place to report problems; we will *not* respond to and or follow up to bug reports here. The correct place is Trac.
Ask for support in the forums.
Apart from that, this issue has been resolved in Trunk. Please be patient and wait for the upcoming b4.
June 26th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
Help! I can’t figure out how to add/use Facebook im’ing with my Adium acccount! I’ve searched here and Google, and even the Adium page on Facebook…when I go to add a new account, I see an option for MySpace IM, but not for Facebook. Please help! Thanks so much!
June 29th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Hi,
1.3b4 installed, and personal Adium settings folder nuked. Added my msn and icq accounts back in, but no facebook im network icon appears in the ‘add account’ preferences pane.
Andy
June 29th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
Hi, same problem as Andy D, only my personal settings seemed to still work just fine. No Facebook IM network option in the “add account” preference pane. Thanks!
June 30th, 2008 at 4:05 am
Hi, jCas
To confirm, the upgrade didn’t trash my personal settings, I deliberately removed them to see if this would cause the facebook settings to appear.
Andy
June 30th, 2008 at 5:28 am
It appears in 1.3b5 — well done everyone.
June 30th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Quick question, is facebook chat jabber based? If so, was this integrated using jabber protocol, or some other way to connect via HTML/javascript?
great work!
July 1st, 2008 at 6:56 am
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