Perl module for "Instant Messaging"

I want to write a bot (think IRC bot) that would talk to people over
messengers such as AOL, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk etc. The bot is
"Splotchy Artificial Intelligence robot" from algebra.com. I know that
there are perl modules that enable individual messengers. What I want
to find is a module that would encompass all of them, where I set up
my individual IDs in the config and then just let it chat with people.

Any suggestions?

i

Re: Perl module for "Instant Messaging"

On Sep 24, 1:05 pm, Ignoramus3778
wrote:
> I want to write a bot (think IRC bot) that would talk to people over
> messengers such as AOL, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk etc. The bot is
> "Splotchy Artificial Intelligence robot" from algebra.com. I know that
> there are perl modules that enable individual messengers. What I want
> to find is a module that would encompass all of them, where I set up
> my individual IDs in the config and then just let it chat with people.
>
> Any suggestions?

Pidgin's libpurple should work for you. It provides a single API for
many IM networks, including the ones you mentioned above:

http://developer.pidgin.im/doxygen/dev/html/perl-howto.html

Regards,

trwww

Re: Perl module for "Instant Messaging"

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:16:25 -0000, Todd Wade wrote:
> On Sep 24, 1:05 pm, Ignoramus3778
> wrote:
>> I want to write a bot (think IRC bot) that would talk to people over
>> messengers such as AOL, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk etc. The bot is
>> "Splotchy Artificial Intelligence robot" from algebra.com. I know that
>> there are perl modules that enable individual messengers. What I want
>> to find is a module that would encompass all of them, where I set up
>> my individual IDs in the config and then just let it chat with people.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>
> Pidgin's libpurple should work for you. It provides a single API for
> many IM networks, including the ones you mentioned above:
>
> http://developer.pidgin.im/doxygen/dev/html/perl-howto.html

Very nice! I use Pidgin all the time for human-to-human messaging. If
I can plug in like that (I did look at the web page) it would be
awesome. I think that that stuff needs a higher level abstraction than
what I have seen, but whatever, I can use what is available.

i