How to link IRC and Google Talk?

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I am looking for a way to link IRC to Google Talk.

At the moment we use Partychatapp for google talk and we'd like to find a way to migrate to using IRC.

The vision is to have everyone in an IRC room and we'd be able to have a google talk bot people could use to talk to the room.

Does anything like this exist?

score 8 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 04 '11 at 01:19

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You want bitlbee. It looks like an IRC server to IRC clients and gateways to other IM protocols.

answered Jun 04 '11 at 01:19

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Thanks GoS! This looks CLOSE (and I've taken a quick look at this before). From what I understand Bitlbee is an irc server as well. I think what I want is more of an IRC bot. Assume there is a preexisting irc server and channel I want to integrate this with. – RJO Jun 04 '11 at 01:31
I don't think you'll find much in the way of bots because dealing with multiple users on either side is painful at best — and you need either one bot to rule them all, or you need some way to keep them from triggering on each other and looping. – geekosaur Jun 04 '11 at 01:33

score 5 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 13 '12 at 19:54

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I wrote an application that does exactly this: https://github.com/PaulFreund/I2X Multiple Users use it on a daily base and there are Ideas to expand it further.

At the moment it logs on to a XMPP account and to an IRC channel, and translates between the two. It works as-is without problems but could be better, if there were more users I probably had more interrest in developing it further.

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answered Dec 14 '11 at 10:10

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Did you purge your github account? I keep getting a 404. – poindexter Dec 13 '12 at 19:51
n/mind I see what happened. Editing your response to point to your new userid. – poindexter Dec 13 '12 at 19:52
Thanks! I'm sorry about that, I also refactored the code a little bit and it's easier to install now – PaulFreund Feb 27 '13 at 13:28

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 24 '12 at 14:23

I played with bitlbee a few years ago. Unless it's changed, it's not actually an IRC server, it just pretends to be one. It provides an irc-flavored proxy to the jabber server, so you can use your favorite IRC client to connect to a jabber server via bitlbee.

How to link IRC and Google Talk?

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