Telegram-purple is a Libpurple plugin that adds support for the Telegram messenger. Its still in an early (pre-alpha) development stage, but already provides basic chat functionality and group chats.
This plugin is based on [Telegram-cli](http://github.com/vysheng/tg), a full-featured terminal-based client for Telegram created by [Vysheng](http://github.com/vysheng).
# Changelog
Warning, this version is mainly for development and testing and NOT for productive use. Even though it already provides basic features, you should still expect bugs and crashes when running it.
When encountering a crash or some other bugs, please report it to us, preferably together with a backtrace of the crashed application [https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/GetABacktrace]
The following features are currently planned and will probably be added in the future:
- Encrypted chats
- Picture, audio and video messages
- File transfers
- Geo-locations
- Multiple accounts on one client
- Respect libpurple proxy settings (implemented but untested)
## Platform Support
We only provide an installation guide for Linux right now, even though it should be possible to compile this plugin on other platforms. If someone manages to create a working Windows or BSD-build please let us know.
# Installation Instructions
Unfortunately there are no packages right now, so you need to compile it yourself:
After succesfully completing all steps mentioned in the installation instructions, you should restart Pidgin to ensure that the plugin is loaded. When everything went well, Telegram should show up in the account manager:
The username is your current phone number, including your full country prefix instead of a leading '0'. For Germany, this would be '+49' for example. Telegram will verify your phone number by sending you a verification code via sms. You will be prompted for this code, once that happens.
Now you should be able to see all your contacts and chats in your buddy list and send/receive messages.
# Troubleshooting
If you encounter problems running this plugin and you have updated from an older version,
deleting your old user-data might be helpful. WARNING: This will require you to enter a new authentication
code and delete all your secret chat keys.
To clean all your user files run:
sudo make purge
# Adium Plugin
## Prebuilt Bundle
This bundle was tested to work under OSX 10.9 and 10.8. If it doesn't work on your installation
please send your Adium crash log (which you can find in ~/Library/Logs/Adium 2/).
1. Compile the source of your current Adium version and add the created frameworks to the Adium-Telegram build path.
2. Get zlib and libcrypto.a and provide it somewhere in your build path.
3. Build the XCode-Project and execute the created bundle
# Unicode Emojis for Pidgin
The Telegram phone applications for iOS and Android make use of standardized Unicode smileys (called [Emojis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji)). Pidgin
does not display those smileys natively, but you can install a custom smiley theme like (https://github.com/stv0g/unicode-emoji) or (https://github.com/VxJasonxV/emoji-for-pidgin) and activate it under Settings > Themes > Smiley Theme.
# Authors
Telegram-Purple and Telegram-Adium were written by:
- Matthias Jentsch <mtthsjntsch@gmail.com>
- Christopher Althaus <althaus.christopher@gmail.com>
- Markus Endres <endresma45241@th-nuernberg.de>
The plugin is based on Telegram-CLI, which was written by Vitaly Valtman <mail@vysheng.ru> and others, see (http://github.com/vysheng/tg)
