send google hangout notification using python

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Is there an API which allows me to send a notification to Google Hangout? Or is there even a python module which encapsulates the Hangout API?

I would like to send system notification (e.g. hard disk failure reports) to a certain hangout account. Any ideas, suggestions?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 23 '13 at 18:11

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Hangouts does not currently have a public API.

That said, messages delivered to the Google Talk XMPP server (talk.google.com:5222) are still being delivered to users via Hangouts. This support is only extended to one-on-one conversations, so the notification can't be delivered to a group of users. The messages will need to be supplied through an authenticated Google account in order to be delivered.

answered May 23 '13 at 18:11

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They killed the Hangouts API: "New apps cannot be created but existing apps will continue to run until April 25th, 2017. After that date, apps in Hangouts will no longer function." – bukzor Aug 28 '17 at 18:00

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 24 '16 at 09:50

There is pre-alpha library for sending hangouts messages on python: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/hangups/0.1

The API have been reverse engineered and is not published (as someone posted in comments). Thus it might change a Google's will.

Also, messages sent using XMPP ceased to be delivered to Hangouts users. I guess this is another cut (of the thousand scheduled).

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Jul 25 '14 at 09:16

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I send alarms and other notifications with a python script (failures on database server, partitions without free space, etc), using hangouts. It's easy. Look at http://www.administracion-linux.com/2014/07/enviar-mensajes-por-hangout-desde.html to send hangouts.

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answered Jul 25 '14 at 09:08

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A little more explanation with code snippets might help out fellow programmers here to understand – Nagama Inamdar Jul 25 '14 at 09:26
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It simply uses XMPP (alias Jabber) to send the messages. For now it works, but until Google decides to drop the XMPP support. – Andreas Roth Jul 26 '14 at 09:36
i had to translate via google , but the snippet works. thank you :) – kommradHomer Mar 16 '15 at 15:36

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