Commandline Jabber client

Question

I need a simple scriptable/commandline jabber client. What is the best and/or simplest one to install?

Clarification: I'm looking for a simple way to send messages from within a script.

Answer 1

Pidgin (formerly Gaim) has a command-line client.

Answer 2

Here are some options:

List of Jabber Console Clients

• centericq
• Fama IM
• GNU Freetalk
• mcabber

Some Scripting Options

• Perl - Net::Jabber
• Python - xmppy, jabber.py, Twisted Words

Not sure what language you're looking to do your scripting in or what platform, but the above should hopefully get you started.

Answer 3

Using the Net::Jabber perl module, I wrote the following script which sends the message from stdin to all the users listed on the command line.

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use Net::Jabber qw(Client);

my $server = "jabber.de";
my $port = "5222";
my $username = "Sec";
my $password = "<pw>";
my $resource = "autosend";
my @recipients = @ARGV;

my $clnt = new Net::Jabber::Client;

my $status = $clnt->Connect(hostname=>$server, port=>$port);

if (!defined($status)) {
    die "Jabber connect error ($!)\n";
}

my @result = $clnt->AuthSend(username=>$username,
        password=>$password,
        resource=>$resource);

if ($result[0] ne "ok") {
    die "Jabber auth error: @result\n";
}

my $body = '';
while (<STDIN>) {
    $body .= $_;
}
chomp($body);

foreach my $to (@recipients) {
    $clnt->MessageSend(to=>$to,
            subject=>"",
            body=>$body,
            type=>"chat",
            priority=>10);
}

$clnt->Disconnect();

Answer 4

Another library option: XMPP4R is a very feature-rich Ruby library for XMPP(Jabber). It uses the built-in Ruby XML handling, which is very nice. If you just need basic messaging, there is also XMPP4R-Simple.

Here's a bit of example code using XMPP4R-Simple, just to show how simple it is (stolen from here):

jabber = Jabber::Simple.new('[email protected]', 'password')
jabber.deliver("[email protected]", "Hey! I'm thinking of going Vegetarian - Any suggestions?")

Answer 5

CJC (Console Jabber Client) ( cjc.jajcus.net ) is a very good client with feels very IRC-like.

EKG2 ( ekg2.org ) project also has good Jabber protocol support and is remote controllable.

Answer 6

Was looking at this myself, and found this snippet at http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/618

In python, needs python and python-xmpp libraries

#!/usr/bin/python
import xmpp

login = 'Your.Login' # @gmail.com 
pwd   = 'YourPassword'

cnx = xmpp.Client('gmail.com')
cnx.connect( server=('talk.google.com',5223) )
cnx.auth(login,pwd, 'botty')

cnx.send( xmpp.Message( "[email protected]" ,"Hello World form Python" ) )

Answer 7

sendxmpp is doing this for me. Based on Net::XMPP Perl library.

sendxmpp is a perl-script to send xmpp (jabber), similar to what mail(1) does for mail.

if test "$cpuload" -gt "$CPULOADMAX"; then
  top -b -n 1 | sendxmpp -s "wake up! cpu load $cpuload at `hostname`" [email protected]  
fi

'~/.sendxmpprc' configuration file with JID and password required for operation.