[orca-list] Fwd: Re: pidgin and fb stopped working together, what now?

["B.Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

Thanks. I'd assumed it was the auth system that had changed, but that was foolish of me as I do not show accounts unconnected, just can't see friends lists.
They did break most of their API(s) a month or two ago so no status updates, newsfeeds or such from stand alone desktop apps.
I'll be checking this out/hope bitlbee gets their act together soon for this as well/facebook goes and wastes more of our time, yet again!
I'm getting to the point of saying to hell with them even though there is a price to pay for that these daze.
   

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Subject:	Re: [orca-list] pidgin and fb stopped working together, what now?
Date:	Sat, 11 Jul 2015 10:20:48 -0300
From:	José Vilmar Estácio de Souza <vilmar informal com br>
Reply-To:	vilmar informal com br
Organization:	Informal Informatica LTDA
To:	kk <krmane gmail com>, Orca List <orca-list gnome org>

I received the following, perhaps it can help.
It was posted in the arch-general archlinux org

On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Javier Vasquez <j e vasquez v gmail com>
wrote:

I just found out facebook no longer supports xmpp interface, and it's
using its own api [1].

However I found a plugin for pidgin on github [2].  It seems to be
working fine for me.

If anyone interested, the following PKGBUILD is also working for me:

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# Maintainer: Javier <j.e.vasquez.v at gmail dot com>
pkgname=purple-facebook
pkgver=a34b993324e4
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Facebook protocol plugin for libpurple"
arch=("i686" "x86_64")
url="" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://github.com/jgeboski/purple-facebook">"https://github.com/jgeboski/purple-facebook"
license=('GPL2')
depends=('libpurple' 'pidgin')
source=("
https://github.com/jgeboski/purple-facebook/releases/download/${pkgver}/purple-facebook-${pkgver}.tar.gz
")
md5sums=('50e706ec573708da63951c33b5db120d')

build() {
  cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
  ./configure --prefix=/usr
  make
}

package() {
  cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
  make DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install
  install -Dm644 COPYING "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
}

# vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et:
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--
Javier

[1]
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/04/facebook-chat-api-empathy-pidgin-stop-working
[2]  https://github.com/jgeboski/purple-facebook

I'm not using it but a quick aur search found this:
https://aur4.archlinux.org/packages/purple-facebook-git/
If you think whatever you are using is better, you could publish it to
aur(4)

On 07/11/2015 10:07 AM, kk wrote:

hello all,
This is bad news.
Pidgin and FB won't work now it seems.
So if I go to facebook.com will I be able to chat using Orca?
I never tired this before so wished to have a word or 2 from experienced people.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.

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