Hangouts transport for Jabber/XMPP

This project is looking for a maintainer. Since I don't have to use Hangouts anymore (thank god), I have no use for it anymore. Erwan.

Introduction

This program implements a XMPP transport/gateway for Google Hangouts.

It allows Jabber users to communicate with people using Hangouts.

It communicates with Jabber servers using Alexey Nezhdanov's xmpppy library and with Hangouts using a modified version of Tom Dryer's hangups library.

It has only been tested with Python 3.4 and ejabberd but it should work on other versions of Python and with other Jabber servers.

It is currently (2016-08) in its second alpha version, and thus bugs should be expected.

Testers, documentation writers, packagers, welcome!

Features

• Contact presence.
• Regular chats.
• Group chats (implemented as XMPP conferences). When a message is received and the conference is not opened by the client, an invitation is sent to it. When a conference is opened, the last 50 events are fetched and displayed.

TODO

• Find bugs and correct them.
• Create packages and distribute them.
• Implement XEP-0071: XHTML-IM.
• Implement file transfers to upload images into chats.

Installation

FreeBSD

Install Python 3.4 and bootstrap pip.

# make -C /usr/ports/lang/python3.4 install clean
# python3.4 -m ensurepip

Install the required Python packages:

# pip3.4 install -r requirements.txt

Debian 8 (Jessie)

Install Python 3.4, virtualenv, and git:

# apt-get install virtualenv git

Clone jabber-hangouts-transport:

$ git clone https://github.com/ZeWaren/jabber-hangouts-transport.git

Create a new virtual environment:

$ cd jabber-hangouts-transport
$ virtualenv -p python3 env

Install the required Python packages:

$ env/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt

Other systems

The transport should run fine on any system running python and its packages. If you tested one successfully, please create a merge request with the updated version of this file.

Usage

User usage can be found in doc/USER_USAGE.md.

Configuration

Transport configuration

The program will look for a config file in the following locations:

• config.xml
• /usr/local/etc/config.xml
• /etc/config.xml

Please look at the comments in the provided example config file for information about the format.

XMPP server configuration

Ejabberd

  -
    port: 5237
    module: ejabberd_service
    hosts:
      "hangups.example.net":
        password: "secret"

Prosody

Add to /etc/prosody/prosody.cfg.lua:

Component "hangups.example.net"    
    component_secret = "secret"  
    component_ports = { 5237 }       
    component_interface = "127.0.0.1"

Startup

# python3.4 __main__.py

Changelog

See file CHANGELOG.

Licence

See file LICENSE.