Plugins
Installing Plugins
Some plugins are distributed as part of collections. Some plugins are distributed in packages for specific operating systems. (Search your distribution's repository.) But most plugins are distributed as compiled dynamically loaded libraries that have to be manually installed. Check to see if the plugin author has included specific installation instructions. If not, follow the general procedure below:
Windows
- Download, and if necessary, extract the .dll file.
- Move the resulting file to %APPDATA%\.purple\plugins
Now when you open the Plugins dialog in Pidgin or Finch, the plugin should show up.
Unix/Linux
- Download, and if necessary, extract the .so file.
- Move the resulting file to ~/.purple/plugins
Now when you open the Plugins dialog in Pidgin or Finch, the plugin should show up.
Official Plugins
Pidgin and Finch ship with a large collection of officially supported plugins which modify standard behavior in a number of ways. You can manage available plugins by accessing the "Tools" menu from the Buddy List window and selecting "Plugins."
If you have a problem with one of the plugins included with the software, you should report it via a ticket. Generally our stock plugins will have the same version number as Pidgin or Finch and the web site address for the plugin will be listed as https://pidgin.im/
Third-Party Plugins
Third party plugins are not supported. Do not open tickets on our trac about these plugins. If you do, those tickets will be closed as invalid.
If you are listing a plugin on this page, note that we will de-list the plugin if source code is not provided. Because Pidgin and libpurple are licensed under the GPLv2, the way plugins are loaded within Pidgin and libpurple require that the plugins be licensed in a GPL-compatible manner, which generally includes providing source code. We will also remove entries from this page that contain broken links, and we will remove any entry with links pointing to malicious sites or software. Also, the column in the tables that says Short Description is intended to be short. Keep the descriptions as short as possible. Also, do not use profanity or pornographic terminology in your descriptions or plugin names. We will edit descriptions or de-list plugins that include such terminology or have overly long descriptions.
Additional Protocols
There are third-party plugins for some protocols:
| Protocol Name | Website | Short Description |
| Amazon Chime | Go | Online meeting and video conferencing |
| Battle.net Classic | Go | Blizzard's gaming network: notably for StarCraft, Diablo II, and WarCraft III |
| Battle.net v2 | Go | Blizzard's gaming network for WoW, Overwatch and others |
| Beluga | Go | Beluga mobile group messaging |
| Campfire | Go | Protocol plugin for Basecamp's Campfire IM |
| Deltachat | Go | IM over email |
| Discord | Go | Text chat for gamers |
| Docker | Go | Send stdin commands to Docker containers |
| F-List | Go | F-List roleplaying community |
| FChat | Go | UDP local network chat system |
| Facebook Chat | Go | Facebook social network |
| Gammu | Go | Send SMS through your feature phone via usb/serial/bluetooth/irda |
| GroupMe (old) | Go | GroupMe group messaging |
| GroupMe (new) | Go | GroupMe group messaging |
| Hangouts | Go | Alternative plugin for Google Hangouts |
| Heroes of Newerth | Go | Online video game |
| ICQ WIM (IcyQue) | Go | Replacement ICQ plugin |
| Go | Instagram DM support | |
| Internet Citizen's Band (ICB) | Go | |
| JRC | Go | libpurple implementation of a JRChat client |
| League of Legends | GO | League of Legends messaging |
| LINE by Naver | Go | Mobile SMS replacement |
| Mail.ru Agent (mrim-prpl) | Go | Russian network |
| Mail.ru Agent (pidgin-mra) | Go | Russian network |
| Matrix.org | Go | Distributed IM |
| Mattermost | Go | Open-source replacement for Slack |
| Microblog | Go | Twitter/Identica/Laconica updates |
| msn-pecan | Go | Alternative MSN access |
| Mumble | Go | Gaming voice chat |
| MXit | | MXit IM |
| NateOn | Go or Go | Korean network (see More Info for details and Windows builds) |
| NetNexus | Go | netnexus.com's chatrooms |
| Netsoul | Go | French network |
| Ning | Go | Ning-based social networks |
| OkCupid | Go | OkCupid.com dating website |
| Omegle | Go | omegle.com's web-based random chat |
| Pidgin-Twitter | Go | Twitter plugin |
| PubNub | Go | Real-time messaging system |
| Pulse SMS | Go | SMS messaging via your Android phone |
| purple-feed | Go | RSS and Atom feed reader |
| Purple Plugins | Go | Loads purple plugins as buddies |
| Pushbullet | Go | Send pushes and SMS (Android-only) via Pushbullet |
| QQ (libqq-pidgin) | Go | QQ protocol support |
| QQ (pidgin-lwqq) | Go | QQ protocol support (Based on WebQQ) |
| Rediffbol | Go | Indian network |
| Rocket.Chat | Go | Open-source replacement for Slack |
| Signal | Go | Secure mobile messaging |
| Skype | Go | Skype IM protocol support |
| Slack | Go | Team collaboration tool |
| SIPE | Go | Microsoft Office Communicator, Reuters Messaging |
| SMS | Go | Purple SMS plugin using ModemManager |
| Spinp | Go | Decentralised chat |
| Steam IM (mobile) | Go | Steam Friends gaming network |
| Steam IM (native) | Go | Steam Friends gaming network |
| Telegram | Go | Secure messenger |
| Threema | Go | |
| TorChat | Go | p2p instant messaging through Tor hidden service tunnels |
| Tox | Go | secure instant messaging via Tox protocol |
| Trillian (IMPP) | Go | Trillian Astra protocol |
| Twitter Protocol | Go | Access Twitter (and status.net / identi.ca) feeds like chat rooms |
| Go | Wechat Protocol Support | |
| Go | WhatsApp IM protocol | |
| WhatsApp (purple-gowhatsapp) | Go | WhatsApp IM protocol |
| WinMX Peer Network | Go | File sharing network |
| Yahoo | Go | Replacement plugin for Yahoo 2016 |
Why are some protocols not supported?
Security and Privacy
| Plugin Name | Website | Short Description |
| Authorization Blocker | Go | The plugin blocks the first authorization request of a contact and answers with the order to ask for authorization again. This helps to prevent spam on ICQ accounts. |
| bOt_tOOls | Go | Configurable plugin for auto-ignoring yahoo spammers |
| Bot Sentry | Go | Stop spam bots |
| IM of Trust | Go | Pidgin IM of Trust blocks authorization requests based on online lists. |
| lurch | Go | Encrypts XMPP conversations using OMEMO |
| Off-the-Record Messaging (OTR) | Go | Encrypts conversations and provides security even when keys are compromised |
| Pidgin-Encryption | Go | Encrypts conversations using stored RSA keys |
| pidgin-gnome-keyring | Go | Stores account passwords in the system keyring instead of as plaintext. |
| Pidgin-GPG | Go | Pidgin GPG/OPENPGP (XEP-0027) Plugin |
| Pidgin-Paranoia | Go | Encrypts conversations using one-time pads |
| Pidgin-privacy-please | Go | Stop spam bots |
| pidgin-wincred | Go | Save passwords as windows credentials instead of as plaintext. |
Notifications
| Plugin Name | Website | Short Description |
| AlienFX-notification | | Provides notification over the AlienFX device of Alienware laptops and PCs |
| Audible Alerts | Go | Audible notification of a received IM by reading the buddy's screen name |
| Bluetooth Notifier | Go | Sends new chat messages directly to your cell phone or any other Bluetooth-enabled device |
| Chatpop | Go | Show open chats when receiving a persistent chat message |
| Command-execute | Go | Executes a command on a new message and works for both Pidgin and Finch |
| Command-notification | Go | Based off Led-notification this plugin will execute a command on receiving a new message |
| pidgin-im-gnome-shell-extension | Go | Make Pidgin IM conversations appear in the Gnome Shell message tray. |
| Guifications | Go | Provides "toaster" popup notifications. |
| IM Pusher | Go | An extension of Notifo Notifications, pushes your messages at specified statuses (e.g. when you are away), two push services (notifo & pushme.to) are supported |
| Keyboard LED Notification | Go | LegLedNot is a keyboard LED notification plugin for Pidgin. |
| KNotifications | Go | Perl plugin that provides KDE 4 notifications |
| Led-notification | Go | Provides notifications with laptops' extra LEDs and similar |
| led-notification | Go | Fork of the above. Adds support for ThinkPads. |
| MX610-notification | Go | Provides notifications with Logitech MX610's IM led |
| Notifo Notifications | | Pushes IMs to your iPhone when you're away using the free Notifo service |
| pidgin-capsnot | Go | Keyboard LED Notification (caps-lock/num-lock/scroll-lock) for Pidgin/Finch |
| Pidgin-dock | Go | Emulate Mac OS X - dock behaviour with cairo-dock, support Adium themes |
| Pidgin-IrssiNotifier | | Perl Plugin, to send notifications to your Phone via IrssiNotifier. |
| Pidgin Advanced Sound Notification | Go | This plugin adds sounds for some notifications to pidgin (e.g. "Incoming Filetransfer" or "Authentication requested"). |
| PidginSnarl | Go | Notifications using Snarl on Windows |
| purple-libnotify+ | Go | Provides libnotify notifications |
| Smart Ear | Go | Customized per-buddy sound events |
| Windows 8 Toast Notifications | Go | Native win8 toast notifications |
| Windows Toast Notifications | Go | Shows notifications when receiving messages, in the standard Windows design |
Profile and status updates
| Plugin Name | Website | Short Description |
| Away-on-Lock | Go | Sets you as away when the screensaver gets activated. (Linux Gnome and KDE4) |
| Full Screen Busy | Go | Sets the status to busy (or any saved status) when a full screen application is detected. (Windows) |
| Google Shared Status | Go | Adds Google Shared Status compatibility that permit to set the status for all the resources connected. This allows to go Invisible... |
| Google Talk Invisible | | Adds the ability to go invisible with Google Talk (XMPP/Jabber protocol) |
| IRC Away | | Changes your IRC nick to indicate you are away. |
| IRC Status | Go | Changes your IRC nick to indicate you are away |
| Jabber Pseudo Invisibility | Go | Adds a pseudo invisible status for Jabber/XMPP accounts namely you result offline but you can monitor the status of your favourite buddies (and start conversations). Read carefully How to Use!!! |
| Last.FM Plugin | Go | Shows information from your Last.FM / Audioscrobbler profile in your status message. |
| Lock 'n' Roll | Go or Go | Set any active accounts to Away (with a user-defined message if applicable) when the workstation locks, and back to Available when it is unlocked. If an account has an existing away message set, Lock ‘n’ Roll leaves it alone. (Windows) |
| Pidgin-Countdown | Go | Sets your status counting down to a specific date & time. |
| Pidgin-Identica-Status | Go | Use a feed from identi.ca as your Pidgin status. |
| Pidgin-Twitter-Status | Go | Use a feed from Twitter as your Pidgin status. No OAuth required. Works via RSS. |
| Purple-Presence | | Provides GnomeSession Presence status support to Purple |
| Purple Twitter Syncup | Go | Set User Tweet as Pidgin Status. Standalone application using reliable OAuth Authentication and DBus. |
| Roster X | Go | contact suggestions for Jabber, as described in XEP-0144 |
| Scroll Lock Indicator | Go | Flashes scroll/caps/num lock light on new message |
| Silence | Go | Mutes everything |
| Sluggish | Go | Sluggish will delay changing your status to Available until you have been back at your keyboard for several minutes. |
| Status Hot Keys | Go | Global shortcut keys to set status and manipulate the buddy window visibility |
| Status RSS | Go | Update status from RSS feed |
| Status to Twitter | Go | Update Twitter with your Pidgin Status |
| Twitter in your Profile | Go | Insert your Twitter history into your profile. It gets updated periodically. |
| xssidle | Go | Set idle time based on information from X11 Screen Saver (such as xscreensaver). |
'now playing' plugins
| Plugin Name | Website | Short Description |
| MusicInfo | Go | Displays the currently-playing music in your status message and profile. Winamp API compatible. |
| Music Tracker | Go | Displays the music track currently playing in the status message. Supports a wide range of audio players. |
| Pidgin-Audacious-Remote | Go | Updates the status message using custom information retrieved from Audacious Media Player. This plugin also allows control over Audacious Media Player from the Pidgin conversation windows (play, pause, next...). |
| Pidgin current track | Go | Current Track plugin will update your !Pidgin user info, available message or away message, and buddy icon from iTunes, Winamp, RealPlayer, WMP, Musicmatch, MediaMonkey, XMPlay, Yahoo! & Foobar2000 in Windows and XMMS, Rhythmbox, & Amarok in Linux. |
| pilt spotify | Go | "now listening" plugin for spotify |
| YuLastFM | Go | Yu Last.fm Pidgin tune status plugin. |
Interface tweaks
| Plugin Name | Website | Short Description |
| Adium to Pidgin themes converter | Go | Allows to convert themes from Adiumxtras site |
| Attention Button | Go | Hide the attention button |
| Autohide | Go | Buddy list improvements like autohide, always on top and hide min/max buttons |
| Autojoin Chat | Go | Skips the 'x invited you to join a chat' message |
| autoresize | Go | Automatically update the buddy list to fit its contents (vertically). |
| Character Counter | Go | Plugin for displaying the character count of the current message. |
| Expand | Go | Automatically expand shortened URLs. No more rick-rolling! |
| Extended Buddy List Sort | Go | Adds more buddy list sorting options |
| Guiops | Go | GUIOps plugin provides more GUI customization options |
| Hide Chat | Go | Hides the window/tab for a channel when the account is connected. (useful for auto-join channels) |
| Ignore Nick Change | Go | Hides the "X is now known as Y" messages in chats |
| IRC Format | Go | A Pidgin/libpurple plugin that lets you send and receive bold/underline/italic/colored text in IRC chats/IMs. |
| keys per minute | Go | Counts the keys per minute while you are typing a message and displays it. |
| Leftify tabs | Go | Moves a conversation tab to the leftmost position in the tab bar whenever a message arrives. |
| MacOS Integration | Go | Adds native menu and notifications for OSX. |
| MacOS Pidgin Bundle | Go | Adds dock icons for Pidgin on OSX |
| Manual Resize | Go and Go | Allows manually resizing the conversation window entry area. |
| Media Emblems | Go | Adds emblems to the buddy list to show if a user supports Voice or Video calls. |
| pidgin-cmds | Go | Various conversation commands |
| Pidgin Conversation Locker | Go | Prevent closing of important conversations(/tabs) by selectively locking them. |
| Pidgin Conversation Save Order | Go | Save the order of chats and IMs and restore it the next time you open a conversation. |
| Pidgin Group Chat Typing Notifications | Go | Display typing notifications of users in a compatible multi-user chat |
| pidgin-nudge | Go | Shakes your conversation window when you receive a nudge/buzz/zap |
| Pidgin PBar | Go | A toolbar to update some account settings globally. |
| Pidgin Personal Bar | Go | Adds a section at the top of your buddy list to change your display name and personal message. |
| Pidgin Windows Position Manager | Go | Places new conversation windows intelligently in Windows (i.e. doesn't always put them in the top left corner). |
| Purple Import Empathy | Go | A pidgin plugin that imports empathy accounts and logs |
| Protocol Icon Override | Go | Lets you pick the protocol icon to display per-account |
| Quickadd | Go | This a simple plugin for pidgin. The idea is to alter the context menu of email addresses in conversations and add option to add the address as a buddy |
| Quickpurple | Go | Provides quick buddy lookup, status switch, unread messages list and access to some Pidgin dialogs. |
| Quote selected text | Go | Quick specify message to answer |
| Scroll to bottom | Go | Scrolls chat history of created conversation windows automatically to the bottom. |
| Session Save | Go | Session Save will remember what conversation windows you had open the last time you used Pidgin, and re-open them for you when you sign on. |
| Smiley Shortcuts | Go | Inserts a smiley on ctrl+(number) combination. |
| TooBars | Go | Add toolbar, status bar, context menu to Pidgin buddy list, hide main menu, change all status by menu (not through Statusbox!) and much more |
| TooButtons | Go | Add Send and Close buttons to Pidgin conversations |
| Toolbar Shrink | Go | Shrinks the toolbar of the conversation windows by hiding the text of the buttons. |
| Translit tools | Go | 1. Virtual russian keyboard; 2. Decodes message written in ISO-9 translit in russian. |
| usercast | Go | Copies the nickname you've double clicked in the conference chat and pastes it into a conversation's entry field |
| Window Merge | Go | Merges the Buddy List window with a conversation window |
| WrapMenu | Go | Wrap main menu if it is too wide |
| Windows 7 Taskbar | Go | Adds new Windows 7 eye-candy such as task bar menu, progress and emblems |
| Windows Smooth Scrolling | Go | Gives more precise scrolling control eg with trackpads |
| Xfer Auto Path | Go | Allows you to automatically set the folder for saving your incoming file transfers by some criteria such as buddy alias. |
Accounts and logs
| Plugin Name | Website | Short Description |
| Auto Authorization | Go | Automatic handling of request of remote user who wants to appear in your buddy list |
| forward2mobile | Go | Forwards and sends your IM messages to/from your existing account that you already use on your mobile with your favorite mobile IM client |
| History control | Go | Buddy- and Historysync as Perl Pidgin Plugin |
| IM-History Plugin | Go | Provides easy and convenient way to store your chats and contact list online (using im-history.com service). |
| Logstatus | Go | Logs all the status changes to the buddy history. |
| Logviewer | Go | Logsearch for all chat logs |
| Office Hours | Go | A plugin that logs you out if you go idle outside your 'office hours' so you can log in the same account(s) at home. In perl so may not work on MS Windows |
| pidgin-autoanswer | Go | A personal adviser, that tries to find suitable answers in your previous logs |
| pidgin-juice | Go | Web-based iPhone interface for Pidgin/Finch |
| Pidgin Backup | Go | Simply back up your preferences (prefs.xml) |
| Purple History Since | Go | Avoid duplicated chat history on some XMPP servers |
| SQLite Logger | Go | IM/Chat logger with a SQLite backend |
| Web Pidgin | Go | Access buddy list and conversations via mobile web browsers |
| Web Pidgin Z | Go | Fork from the original Web Pidgin. A lot of new features and bugfixes like Ajax support, digest authentication, webserver logs and gtalk-like grouping of messages and much more |
Miscellaneous
| Plugin Name | Website | Short Description |
| Auto Translate | Go | Auto translates incoming IMs |
| b64 | Go | Base 64 encoding of chat messages (A very simple Perl plugin) |
| Birthday Reminder | Go | Reminds you of your buddies birthdays. |
| Block <user> has left the conversation. | Go | Very simple plugin that blocks the message "<user> has left the conversation." |
| Block AOL System Msg | Go | Very simple plugin that blocks messages from "AOL System Msg" when you are logged into AIM from multiple locations. |
| bridgin | Go | Relay messages between chat rooms via a plugin |
| bridgin-php | Go | Relay messages between chat rooms via a dbus plugin |
| core-answerscripts | Go | Framework for hooking simple but powerful "answerscripts" to received messages. |
| DockApp | Go or Go | Allows Pidgin to appear as an AfterStep Wharf icon. |
| Extended Preferences | Go | Provides some often-requested preferences |
| Facebook Notifier | Go | Indicates when there are unread Facebook notifications. |
| Fonomo Video | Go | Enables Video-chat invitations via Fonomo.com (requires Adobe Flash v9 or higher) |
| Google Invisibility Half Scan | Go | WARNING! GOOGLE HAS FIXED THE BUG! THIS PLUGIN IS NO LONGER WORKING! Find out if your (Gtalk) buddies are INVISIBLE. Note: This is an "HALF SCAN" because you can not establish with certainty that a buddy is invisible (read Description). |
| Google Invisibility Tracker | Go | This plugin alerts you when a buddy of yours (using Gmail, GTalk Lab Edition or iGoogle) go invisible |
| Growl | Go | Perl plugin to use Growl. Requires growlnotify. Particularly useful for finch where an IM in a different window may go unnoticed. |
| Headset | Go | Supports mute and hangup buttons from USB headsets |
| Hide Inactive Buddies | Go | Plugin to hide inactive buddies in buddy list. Determine inactive buddy by status. |
| Instant messaging Remote Access | Go | Client/server plugin to exec commands/open a shell in a virtual terminal on buddies PC. It's a kind of telnet via Instant Messaging |
| Instant messaging NetCat Port Forwarding | Go | Do a basic port forwarding via Instant messaging using NetCat |
| Instant messaging Virtual Terminal | Go | Opens a Virtual Terminal in your PC controlled by buddies via IM |
| Juick Plugin | Go | Plugin specially designed for Juick xmpp-microblogging service, providing support for moods and inline avatars |
| Language Translator | Go | Plugin to translate outgoing text from English language to selected language. |
| Meebo | Go | auto add and accept guests for meebo me widget for livechat from websites in pidgin |
| MegaHAL | Go | connects Pidgin to MegaHAL. The contact will be answered by MegaHAL instead of by us |
| Morse Code Talk | Go | This Plugin contains the entire Morse Code. Have one more friend around to use it, it can be a lot of fun to communicate in this way. |
| No IRC /who | Go | Removes the periodic /who check from the IRC protocol, to stop flooding, slowdowns and "Max sendq exceeded" errors |
| PaintBoard | Go | This plugin allows you to draw with your friend on common board. |
| pidginTeX | Go | Renders mathematical expressions. Lots of options, size, colors, etc. Built upon Pidgin-LaTeX. |
| Pidgin-convreverse | Go | Reverses any word on all conversation. |
| Pidgin-eSpeak | Go | Reads incoming text messages via eSpeak (text-to-speech). |
| Pidgin-GeoURI | Go | Convert geo URI scheme to Google Maps or OpenStreetMap? link |
| Pidgin-google-contact | Go | Syncs the buddy list with google contacts |
| Pidgin-googledesktop | Go | Google Desktop Indexing Plugin for Pidgin |
| Pidgin-LaTeX | Go | Allows you to include mathematical formulas in your conversations. |
| Pidgin Embedded Video | Go | A GTK plugin to watch videos directly into your Pidgin conversation |
| Pidgin ZNC Helper | Go | This plugin removes ugly double-timestamps when replaying messages from ZNC bouncers, e.g. "(13:00:00) [12:00:00] Lunch time!". |
| Pidglet | Go | A Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget that displays your buddy list. |
| PiFo | Go | Renders various latex markups and procedural graphics code. |
| Purple Plugin Pack | Go | Provides over 50 various plugins, including oft-requested IRC-related plugins. |
| QIP decoder | Go | Corrects invalid incoming QIP 2005 diacritics and local symbols |
| Rainbow Bridge | Go | Simple relay bot for Libpurple chats |
| RSS / ATOM | Go | Shows Feed updates as messages in a conversation window. Requires Python and presently only works on Linux. |
| Send Screenshot | Go | Take a screenshot and send it to a buddy. |
| STFW | Go | A plugin that helps you teach your buddies how to use google. |
| URL Scout | Go | This plugin will lookup a url and display a web page title when you receive a link in a chat |
| URL Shorten | Go | Perl plugin to shorten long urls. Especially useful for finch. Download and put in plugins directory. URLs are shortened as they come in if they exceed maximum length setting. no action required. Requires some perl libraries to work. |
| What's my IP | Go | Allows buddies to get your external IP by writing 'ip' on IM chat |
| Wikipedia look-up | Go | Easy look-up received and typed words on Wikipedia. |
| XMPP HTTP File Upload | Go | XEP-0363: HTTP File Upload plugin for libpurple (Pidgin, Finch, etc.) |
| XMPP Ignore Groups | Go | Ignores server-sent XMPP groups so that you can move buddies around on annoying servers (e.g. Facebook) |
| XMPP MUC Presence | Go | Shows participant's presence icon in chat room. |
| XMPP Message Carbons | Go | Displays self-sent messages from other XMPP clients |
| XMPP Receipts | Go | Shows a delivering notification if the recipient supports it |
| XMPP URI Links | Go | Support clicking on xmpp links, such as xmpp:foo@bar.net?message to open a chat window. |
| YouTube Title Adder | Go | Displays video titles for incoming YouTube links. |
Plugin Language Bindings
| Language Name | Website |
| D | Go |
| Golang | Go |
| Haskell | Go |
| Node JS | Go |
| PHP | Go |
| Python 2 | Go |
| Python 3 | Go |
| Rust | Go |
Development of Third-Party Plugins
If you're looking to develop a third-party plugin, you may find these resources valuable:
- C Plugin Howto (still in progress)
- API Documentation
- Third Party Plugin Translation Support
Due to issues with spam this page is locked for editing. Please contact us on #pidgin on Freenode if you'd like your plugin added to this list.
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Last modified on Nov 27, 2019, 9:22:41 AM
