Plugins
This page contains a list of plugins from trusted authors and the community. This index is to help users find useful plugins but inclusion on this list does not imply that the Pidgin Team endorses the plugins, their quality, or even their usefulness.
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| Name | Type | Info | Audited | Maintainer | ||
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| Adium to Pidgin themes converter | Interface Tweaks | Allows to convert themes from www.adiumxtras.com | ||||
| Amazon Chime | Protocol | Online meeting and video conferencing | Amazon Web Services - Labs | |||
| Attention Button | Interface Tweaks | Hide the attention button | ||||
| Audible Alerts | Notifications | Audible notification of a received IM by reading the buddy’s screen name | meiser024 | |||
| Authorization Blocker | Security and Privacy | 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. | Konrad Gräfe | |||
| Auto Authorization | Accounts and Logs | Automatic handling of request of remote user who wants to appear in your buddy list | ||||
| Auto Translate | Miscellaneous | Auto translates incoming IMs | ||||
| Autohide (broken link) | Interface Tweaks | Buddy list improvements like autohide, always on top and hide min/max buttons | ||||
| Autojoin Chat | Interface Tweaks | Skips the ‘x invited you to join a chat’ message | EionRobb | |||
| autoresize | Interface Tweaks | Automatically update the buddy list to fit its contents (vertically). | ||||
| Away-on-Lock (broken link) | Profile and Status Updates | Sets you as away when the screensaver gets activated. (Linux Gnome and KDE4) | ||||
| b64 (broken link) | Miscellaneous | Base 64 encoding of chat messages (A very simple Perl plugin) | ||||
| Battle.net Classic | Protocol | Blizzard’s gaming network: notably for StarCraft, Diablo II, and WarCraft III | nmbook | |||
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Battle.net v2 | Protocol | Blizzard’s gaming network for WoW, Overwatch and others | EionRobb | ||
| Birthday Reminder | Miscellaneous | Reminds you of your buddies birthdays. | Konrad Gräfe | |||
| Block <user> has left the conversation. | Miscellaneous | Very simple plugin that blocks the message “ has left the conversation.” | ||||
| Block AOL System Msg | Miscellaneous | Very simple plugin that blocks messages from “AOL System Msg” when you are logged into AIM from multiple locations. | ||||
| Bluetooth Notifier | Notifications | Sends new chat messages directly to your cell phone or any other Bluetooth-enabled device | holthuis | |||
| Bot Sentry | Security and Privacy | Stop spam bots | deckrider | |||
| bOt_tOOls (broken link) | Security and Privacy | Configurable plugin for auto-ignoring yahoo spammers | Eric Dziewa | |||
| bridgin | Miscellaneous | Relay messages between chat rooms via a plugin | ||||
| bridgin-php | Miscellaneous |
Relay messages between chat rooms via a dbus plugin
Deprecated for bridgin |
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Campfire | Protocol | Protocol plugin for Basecamp’s Campfire IM | jrfoell | ||
| Character Counter | Interface Tweaks | Plugin for displaying the character count of the current message. | Konrad Gräfe | |||
| ChatGPT | Protocol | Lets you create and chat with OpenAI GPT bots | 2024-11-07 | EionRobb | ||
| Chatpop | Notifications | Show open chats when receiving a persistent chat message | teleshoes | |||
| Command-execute | Notifications | Executes a command on a new message and works for both Pidgin and Finch | tymm | |||
| Command-notification | Notifications | Based off Led-notification this plugin will execute a command on receiving a new message | GuySoft | |||
| core-answerscripts | Miscellaneous | Framework for hooking simple but powerful “answerscripts” to received messages. | ||||
| Deltachat | Protocol | IM over email | ccpp | |||
| Discord | Protocol | Text chat for gamers | EionRobb | |||
| DockApp | Miscellaneous | Allows Pidgin to appear as an AfterStep Wharf icon. | ||||
| Docker | Protocol | Send stdin commands to Docker containers | samuelkarp | |||
| Expand | Interface Tweaks | Automatically expand shortened URLs. No more rick-rolling! | ||||
| Extended Buddy List Sort | Interface Tweaks | Adds more buddy list sorting options | Konrad Gräfe | |||
| Extended Preferences | Miscellaneous | Provides some often-requested preferences | ||||
| F-List | Protocol | F-List roleplaying community | fchat-pidgin | |||
| Protocol | Facebook chat | dequis | ||||
| Facebook Notifier (broken link) | Miscellaneous | Indicates when there are unread Facebook notifications. | ||||
| Fonomo Video (broken link) | Miscellaneous | Enables Video-chat invitations via Fonomo.com (requires Adobe Flash v9 or higher) | ||||
| forward2mobile | Accounts and Logs | Forwards and sends your IM messages to/from your existing account that you already use on your mobile with your favorite mobile IM client | ||||
| Full Screen Busy | Profile and Status Updates | Sets the status to busy (or any saved status) when a full screen application is detected. (Windows) | ||||
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Gammu | Protocol | Send SMS through your feature phone via usb/serial/bluetooth/irda | EionRobb | ||
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Google Chat | Protocol | Alternative plugin for Google Chat | EionRobb | ||
| Google Invisibility Half Scan | Miscellaneous | 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 | Miscellaneous | This plugin alerts you when a buddy of yours (using Gmail, GTalk Lab Edition or iGoogle) go invisible | ||||
| Google Shared Status | Profile and Status Updates | Adds Google Shared Status compatibility that permit to set the status for all the resources connected. This allows to go Invisible… | ||||
| Google Talk Invisible (broken link) | Profile and Status Updates | Adds the ability to go invisible with Google Talk (XMPP/Jabber protocol) | ||||
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GroupMe | Protocol | GroupMe group messaging | djhaskin987 | ||
| Growl | Miscellaneous | Perl plugin to use Growl. Requires growlnotify. Particularly useful for finch where an IM in a different window may go unnoticed. | ||||
| Guifications | Notifications | Provides toaster popup notifications | Gary Kramlich | |||
| Guiops | Interface Tweaks | GUIOps plugin provides more GUI customization options | ||||
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Hangouts | Protocol | Alternative plugin for Google Hangouts | EionRobb | ||
| Headset | Miscellaneous | Supports mute and hangup buttons from USB headsets | ||||
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Heroes of Newerth | Protocol | Online video game | theli-ua | ||
| Hide Chat | Interface Tweaks | Hides the window/tab for a channel when the account is connected. (useful for auto-join channels) | Konrad Gräfe | |||
| Hide Inactive Buddies | Miscellaneous | Plugin to hide inactive buddies in buddy list. Determine inactive buddy by status. | ||||
| History control (broken link) | Accounts and Logs | Buddy- and Historysync as Perl Pidgin Plugin | ||||
| Ignore Nick Change | Interface Tweaks | Hides the “X is now known as Y” messages in chats | ||||
| IM Pusher | Notifications | 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 | coolwanglu | |||
| IM-History Plugin (broken link) | Accounts and Logs | Provides easy and convenient way to store your chats and contact list online (using im-history.com service). | ||||
| Instant messaging NetCat Port Forwarding | Miscellaneous | Do a basic port forwarding via Instant messaging using NetCat | ||||
| Instant messaging Remote Access | Miscellaneous | 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 Virtual Terminal | Miscellaneous | Opens a Virtual Terminal in your PC controlled by buddies via IM | ||||
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Internet Citizen's Band (ICB) | Protocol | ICB | pelotasplus | ||
| IRC Away (broken link) | Profile and Status Updates | Changes your IRC nick to indicate you are away. | ||||
| IRC Format | Interface Tweaks | A Pidgin/libpurple plugin that lets you send and receive bold/underline/italic/colored text in IRC chats/IMs. | ||||
| IRC Status | Profile and Status Updates | Changes your IRC nick to indicate you are away | rickyepoderi | |||
| Jabber Pseudo Invisibility | Profile and Status Updates | 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!!! | ||||
| JRC | Protocol | libpurple implementation of a JRChat client | telyn | |||
| Juick Plugin | Miscellaneous | Plugin specially designed for [http://juick.com Juick] xmpp-microblogging service, providing support for moods and inline avatars | ||||
| Keyboard LED Notification (broken link) | Notifications | LegLedNot is a keyboard LED notification plugin for Pidgin | Gabriel Cséfalvay | |||
| keys per minute (broken link) | Interface Tweaks | Counts the keys per minute while you are typing a message and displays it. | ||||
| KNotifications | Notifications | Perl plugin that provides KDE 4 notifications | mrovi | |||
| Language Translator | Miscellaneous | Plugin to translate outgoing text from English language to selected language. | ||||
| Last.FM Plugin | Profile and Status Updates | Shows information from your Last.FM / Audioscrobbler profile in your status message. | natureshadow | |||
| Led-notification | Notifications | Provides notifications with laptops' extra LEDs and similar | Simo Mattila | |||
| led-notification | Notifications | Fork of Led-notification. Adds support for ThinkPads | Sitwon | |||
| Leftify tabs | Interface Tweaks | Moves a conversation tab to the leftmost position in the tab bar whenever a message arrives. | ||||
| LINE | Protocol | Mobile SMS replacement | supersonictw | |||
| Lock 'n' Roll | Profile and Status Updates | 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) | DanielLaberge | |||
| Logstatus | Accounts and Logs | Logs all the status changes to the buddy history. | ||||
| Logviewer | Accounts and Logs | Logsearch for all chat logs | ||||
| lurch | Security and Privacy | Encrypts XMPP conversations using OMEMO | gkdr | |||
| MacOS Integration | Interface Tweaks | Adds native menu and notifications for OSX. | ||||
| MacOS Pidgin Bundle | Interface Tweaks | Adds dock icons for Pidgin on OSX | ||||
| Manual Resize | Interface Tweaks | Allows manually resizing the conversation window entry area. | ||||
| Master Password | Security and Privacy | Protects account passwords by a master password. | Konrad Gräfe | |||
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Matrix | Protocol | Distributed IM | matrix-org | ||
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Mattermost | Protocol | Open-source replacement for Slack | EionRobb | ||
| Media Emblems | Interface Tweaks | Adds emblems to the buddy list to show if a user supports Voice or Video calls. | ||||
| Meebo | Miscellaneous | auto add and accept guests for meebo me widget for livechat from websites in pidgin | ||||
| MegaHAL | Miscellaneous | connects Pidgin to MegaHAL. The contact will be answered by MegaHAL instead of by us | ||||
| Microblog | Protocol | Twitter/Identica/Laconica updates | fr0nk | |||
| Morse Code Talk | Miscellaneous | 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. | ||||
| msn-pecan | Protocol | Alternative MSN access | felipec | |||
| Mumble | Protocol | Gaming voice chat | petteripitkanen | |||
| Music Tracker | Now Playing | Displays the music track currently playing in the status message. Supports a wide range of audio players. | ||||
| MusicInfo (broken link) | Now Playing | Displays the currently-playing music in your status message and profile. Winamp API compatible. | ||||
| MX610-notification | Notifications | Provides notifications with Logitech MX610’s IM led | Simo Mattila | |||
| NateOn | Protocol | Korean network | kaisyu | |||
| NetNexus | Protocol | netnexus.com’s chatrooms | EionRobb | |||
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Netsoul | Protocol | French network | wlallemand | ||
| Ning | Protocol | Ning-based social networks | EionRobb | |||
| No IRC /who | Miscellaneous | Removes the periodic /who check from the IRC protocol, to stop flooding, slowdowns and “Max sendq exceeded” errors | 2024-08-29 | EionRobb | ||
| Off-the-Record Messaging (OTR) (broken link) | Security and Privacy | Encrypts conversations and provides security even when keys are compromised | OTR Development Team | |||
| Office Hours | Accounts and Logs | 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 | ||||
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OkCupid | Protocol | OKCupid dating website | EionRobb | ||
| Omegle | Protocol | omegle.com’s web-based random chat | EionRobb | |||
| PaintBoard | Miscellaneous | This plugin allows you to draw with your friend on common board. | ||||
| Pidgin Advanced Sound Notification | Notifications | This plugin adds sounds for some notifications to pidgin (Incoming file transfer, Authentication requested, etc.) | Konrad Gräfe | |||
| Pidgin Backup | Accounts and Logs | Simply back up your preferences (prefs.xml) | ||||
| Pidgin Conversation Locker | Interface Tweaks | Prevent closing of important conversations(/tabs) by selectively locking them. | ||||
| Pidgin Conversation Save Order | Interface Tweaks | Save the order of chats and IMs and restore it the next time you open a conversation. | Konrad Gräfe | |||
| Pidgin current track | Now Playing | 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. | ||||
| Pidgin Embedded Video | Miscellaneous | A GTK plugin to watch videos directly into your Pidgin conversation | ||||
| Pidgin Group Chat Typing Notifications | Interface Tweaks | Display typing notifications of users in a compatible multi-user chat | ||||
| Pidgin PBar | Interface Tweaks | A toolbar to update some account settings globally. | ||||
| Pidgin Personal Bar | Interface Tweaks | Adds a section at the top of your buddy list to change your display name and personal message. | ||||
| Pidgin Windows Position Manager | Interface Tweaks | Places new conversation windows intelligently in Windows (i.e. doesn’t always put them in the top left corner). | ||||
| Pidgin ZNC Helper | Miscellaneous | Display correct timestamps on messages replayed by a ZNC Bouncer. | Konrad Gräfe | |||
| Pidgin-Audacious-Remote | Now Playing | 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-autoanswer | Accounts and Logs | A personal adviser, that tries to find suitable answers in your previous logs | ||||
| pidgin-capsnot | Notifications | Keyboard LED Notification (caps-lock/num-lock/scroll-lock) for Pidgin/Finch | EionRobb | |||
| pidgin-cmds | Interface Tweaks | Various conversation commands | ||||
| Pidgin-convreverse | Miscellaneous | Reverses any word on all conversation. | ||||
| Pidgin-Countdown | Profile and Status Updates | Sets your status counting down to a specific date & time. | Stephen English | |||
| Pidgin-dock | Notifications | Emulate Mac OS X - dock behaviour with cairo-dock | Sergey Klimov | |||
| Pidgin-Encryption | Security and Privacy | Encrypts conversations using stored RSA keys | obobo | |||
| Pidgin-eSpeak | Miscellaneous | Reads incoming text messages via eSpeak (text-to-speech). | ||||
| Pidgin-GeoURI | Miscellaneous | Convert geo URI scheme to Google Maps or OpenStreetMap link | ||||
| pidgin-gnome-keyring | Security and Privacy | Stores account passwords in the system keyring instead of as plaintext | aebrahim | |||
| Pidgin-google-contact | Miscellaneous | Syncs the buddy list with google contacts | ||||
| Pidgin-googledesktop | Miscellaneous | Google Desktop Indexing Plugin for Pidgin | ||||
| Pidgin-GPG | Security and Privacy | Pidgin GPG/OPENPGP (XEP-0027) Plugin | Alex Segler | |||
| Pidgin-Identica-Status | Profile and Status Updates | Use a feed from identi.ca as your Pidgin status. | ||||
| pidgin-im-gnome-shell-extension | Notifications | Make Pidgin IM conversations appear in the Gnome Shell message tray | muffinmad | |||
| pidgin-juice | Accounts and Logs | Web-based iPhone interface for Pidgin/Finch | ||||
| Pidgin-LaTeX | Miscellaneous | Allows you to include mathematical formulas in your conversations. | ||||
| pidgin-nudge | Interface Tweaks | Shakes your conversation window when you receive a nudge/buzz/zap | ||||
| Pidgin-Paranoia | Security and Privacy | Encrypts conversations using one-time pads | boognu, nowic | |||
| Pidgin-privacy-please | Security and Privacy | Stop spam bots | hwms | |||
| Pidgin-Twitter | Protocol | Twitter plugin | honeyplanet | |||
| Pidgin-Twitter-Status | Profile and Status Updates | Use a feed from Twitter as your Pidgin status. No OAuth required. Works via RSS. | guysoft | |||
| pidgin-wincred | Security and Privacy | Save passwords as windows credentials instead of as plaintext | aebrahim | |||
| PidginSnarl | Notifications | Notifications using Snarl on Windows | sven | |||
| pidginTeX | Miscellaneous | Renders mathematical expressions. Lots of options, size, colors, etc. Built upon Pidgin-LaTeX. | ||||
| Pidglet | Miscellaneous | A Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget that displays your buddy list. | ||||
| PiFo | Miscellaneous | Renders various latex markups and procedural graphics code. | ||||
| pilt spotify | Now Playing | ‘now listening’ plugin for spotify | ||||
| Protocol Icon Override | Interface Tweaks | Lets you pick the protocol icon to display per-account | ||||
| Protocol Status Icons | Interface Tweaks | Adds the protocol icon to the status icons in the buddy list. | Konrad Gräfe | |||
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PubNub | Protocol | Real-time messaging system | pubnub | ||
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Pulse SMS | Protocol | SMS messaging via your Android phone | EionRobb | ||
| Purple History Since | Accounts and Logs | Avoid duplicated chat history on some XMPP servers | Konrad Gräfe | |||
| Purple Import Empathy | Interface Tweaks | A pidgin plugin that imports empathy accounts and logs | ||||
| Purple Plugin Pack | Miscellaneous | Provides over 50 various plugins, including oft-requested IRC-related plugins. | ||||
| Purple Twitter Syncup | Profile and Status Updates | Set User Tweet as Pidgin Status. Standalone application using reliable OAuth Authentication and DBus. | yogeshpathade | |||
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purple-feed | Protocol | RSS and Atom feed reader | moraxy | ||
| purple-libnotify+ | Notifications | Provides libnotify notifications | sardemff7 | |||
| Purple-Presence (broken link) | Profile and Status Updates | Provides GnomeSession Presence status support to Purple | sardemff7 | |||
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Pushbullet | Protocol | Send pushes and SMS (Android-only) via Pushbullet | EionRobb | ||
| QIP decoder (broken link) | Miscellaneous | Corrects invalid incoming QIP 2005 diacritics and local symbols | ||||
| QQ (libqq-pidgin) | Protocol | QQ protocol support | libqq-pidgin | |||
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QQ (pidgin-lwqq) | Protocol | QQ protocol support (Based on WebQQ) | xiehuc | ||
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QQ (purple-oicq) | Protocol | A binding to takayama-lily’s OICQ library. | axon-oicq | ||
| Quickadd | Interface Tweaks | 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 | Interface Tweaks | Provides quick buddy lookup, status switch, unread messages list and access to some Pidgin dialogs. | ||||
| Quote selected text | Interface Tweaks | Quick specify message to answer | ||||
| Rainbow Bridge | Miscellaneous | Simple relay bot for Libpurple chats | ||||
| Rediffbol | Protocol | Indian network | Arnold Noronha | |||
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Rocket.Chat | Protocol | Open-source replacement for Slack | EionRobb | ||
| Roster | Profile and Status Updates | contact suggestions for Jabber, as described in XEP-0144 | dzzinstant | |||
| RSS / ATOM | Miscellaneous | Shows Feed updates as messages in a conversation window. Requires Python and presently only works on Linux. | ||||
| Scroll Lock Indicator | Profile and Status Updates | Flashes scroll/caps/num lock light on new message | dotdias | |||
| Scroll to bottom (broken link) | Interface Tweaks | Scrolls chat history of created conversation windows automatically to the bottom. | ||||
| Send Screenshot (broken link) | Miscellaneous | Take a screenshot and send it to a buddy. | ||||
| Session Save (broken link) | Interface Tweaks | 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. | ||||
| Signal (presage) | Protocol | A libpurple/Pidgin protocol plugin for Signal (formerly textsecure) using presage. | hoehermann | |||
| Signal (signald) | Protocol | Secure mobile messaging. (Deprecated see purple-presage) | hoehermann | |||
| Silence | Profile and Status Updates | Mutes everything | megacoder | |||
| SIPE | Protocol | Microsoft Office Communicator, Reuters Messaging | Stefan Becker | |||
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Skype | Protocol | Skype IM protocol support | EionRobb | ||
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Slack | Protocol | Team collaboration tool | dylex | ||
| Sluggish | Profile and Status Updates | Sluggish will delay changing your status to Available until you have been back at your keyboard for several minutes. | jamesboston | |||
| Smart Ear (broken link) | Notifications | Customized per-buddy sound events | Matt Perry | |||
| Smiley Shortcuts | Interface Tweaks | Inserts a smiley on ctrl+(number) combination. | ||||
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SMS | Protocol | Purple SMS plugin using ModemManager | Librem5 | ||
| Spinp | Protocol | Decentralised chat | farcdev | |||
| SQLite Logger | Accounts and Logs | IM/Chat logger with a SQLite backend | ||||
| Status Hot Keys | Profile and Status Updates | Global shortcut keys to set status and manipulate the buddy window visibility | castledragmire | |||
| Status RSS (broken link) | Profile and Status Updates | Update status from RSS feed | ||||
| Status to Twitter | Profile and Status Updates | Update Twitter with your Pidgin Status | ||||
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Steam IM (mobile) | Protocol | Steam Friends gaming network | EionRobb | ||
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Steam IM (native) | Protocol | Steam Friends gaming network | seishun | ||
| STFW (broken link) | Miscellaneous | A plugin that helps you teach your buddies how to use google. | ||||
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Teams | Protocol | Microsoft Teams | EionRobb | ||
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Telegram (modern) | Protocol | Secure messenger | BenWiederhake | ||
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Telegram (original) | Protocol | Secure messenger | majn | ||
| Threema | Protocol | Threema | hbruintjes | |||
| TooBars | Interface Tweaks | 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 | Interface Tweaks | Add Send and Close buttons to Pidgin conversations | ||||
| Toolbar Shrink | Interface Tweaks | Shrinks the toolbar of the conversation windows by hiding the text of the buttons. | Konrad Gräfe | |||
| TorChat (broken link) | Protocol | p2p instant messaging through Tor hidden service tunnels | prof7bit | |||
| Tox | Protocol | Secure instant messaging via Tox protocol | EionRobb | |||
| Translit tools | Interface Tweaks | A virtual russian keyboard that decodes message written in ISO-9 translit in russian. | ||||
| Trillian (IMPP) | Protocol | Trillian Astra protocol | Hi-Angel | |||
| Twitter in your Profile | Profile and Status Updates | Insert your Twitter history into your profile. It gets updated periodically. | ||||
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Twitter Protocol | Protocol | Access Twitter (and status.net / identi.ca) feeds like chat rooms | mikeage | ||
| Unhighlight System Messages | Interface Tweaks | Remove the highlight flag from system messages. | Konrad Gräfe | |||
| URL Scout | Miscellaneous | This plugin will lookup a url and display a web page title when you receive a link in a chat | ||||
| URL Shorten | Miscellaneous | 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. | ||||
| usercast | Interface Tweaks | Copies the nickname you’ve double clicked in the conference chat and pastes it into a conversation’s entry field | ||||
| Web Pidgin (broken link) | Accounts and Logs | Access buddy list and conversations via mobile web browsers | ||||
| Web Pidgin Z (broken link) | Accounts and Logs | 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 | ||||
| Protocol | Wechat Protocol Support | sbwtw | ||||
| What's my IP | Miscellaneous | Allows buddies to get your external IP by writing ‘ip’ on IM chat | ||||
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Protocol | WhatsApp IM protocol | davidgfnet | |||
| WhatsApp (purple-gowhatsapp) | Protocol | WhatsApp IM protocol | hoehermann | |||
| Wikipedia look-up | Miscellaneous | Easy look-up received and typed words on Wikipedia. | ||||
| Window Merge | Interface Tweaks | Merges the Buddy List window with a conversation window | ||||
| Windows 7 Taskbar | Interface Tweaks | Adds new Windows 7 eye-candy such as task bar menu, progress and emblems | ||||
| Windows 8 Toast Notifications | Notifications | Native win8 toast notifications | Adrian Keenan | |||
| Windows Smooth Scrolling | Interface Tweaks | Gives more precise scrolling control eg with trackpads | ||||
| Windows Toast Notifications | Notifications | Shows notifications when receiving messages, in the standard Windows design | Christian Galla | |||
| WinMX Peer Network | Protocol | File sharing network | ranma42 | |||
| WrapMenu | Interface Tweaks | Wrap main menu if it is too wide | ||||
| Xfer Auto Path | Interface Tweaks | Allows you to automatically set the folder for saving your incoming file transfers by some criteria such as buddy alias. | Konrad Gräfe | |||
| XMPP HTTP File Upload | Miscellaneous | XEP-0363: HTTP File Upload plugin for libpurple (Pidgin, Finch, etc.) | ||||
| XMPP Ignore Groups | Miscellaneous | Ignores server-sent XMPP groups so that you can move buddies around on annoying servers (e.g. Facebook) | EionRobb | |||
| XMPP Message Carbons | Miscellaneous | Displays self-sent messages from other XMPP clients | ||||
| XMPP MUC Presence | Miscellaneous | Shows participant’s presence icon in chat room. | ||||
| XMPP Receipts | Miscellaneous | Shows a delivering notification if the recipient supports it | ||||
| XMPP URI Links | Miscellaneous | Support clicking on xmpp links, such as xmpp:foo@bar.net?message to open a chat window. | ||||
| xssidle | Profile and Status Updates | Set idle time based on information from X11 Screen Saver (such as xscreensaver). | mehturt | |||
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Yahoo | Protocol | Replacement plugin for Yahoo 2016 | EionRobb | ||
| YouTube Title Adder | Miscellaneous | Displays video titles for incoming YouTube links. | ||||
| YuLastFM | Now Playing | Yu Last.fm Pidgin tune status plugin. |