Third-Party Plugins

This page is intended for plugin developers to make their plugins more visible to users. We don't provide hosting for plugins as we simply do not have the resources to do so. We do, however, encourage anyone hosting their own plugins to add them to the list below!

Note that we do not support any of these plugins. If you have problems with the plugins, please contact the plugin's author using resources available on the plugin's website. Please do not file tickets in the Pidgin bug tracking system, as we do not develop or support these plugins.

"Normal" Plugins

These plugins appear in the plugins list and provide additional functionality.

Plugin Name	Website	Short Description
Extended Preferences	​Go	Provides some additional, often-requested preferences for Pidgin.
Guifications	​Go	Provides "toaster" popup notifications.
Led-notification	​Go	Provides notifications with laptops extra leds and similar
MX610-notification	​Go	Provides notifications with Logitech MX610's IM led
Off-the-Record Messaging	​Go	Allows you to have private conversations over instant messaging.
Pidgin-Encryption	​Go	Transparently encrypts your instant messages with RSA encryption.
Pidgin-LaTeX	​Go	Allows you to include mathematical formulas in your conversations.
Purple Plugin Pack	​Go	Provides over 30 plugins for Pidgin, Finch, and libpurple.

Protocol Plugins

These plugins do not appear in the plugins list. Instead, they create new entries in the protocol field of the account editor and enable the user to connect to new IM or chat networks.

Protocol Name	Website	Short Description
Battle.net	​Go	Plugin to connect to the battle.net IM service
Netsoul	​Go	Plugin for the netsoul IM network used at engineering schools in Paris, France
SIP-e (MS Communicator)	​Go	Plugin to connect to the MS Communicator IM server
XFire	​Go	Plugin to connect to the XFire gamers' IM network

Loader Plugins

These plugins do not appear in the plugins list. Instead, they allow loading plugins written in other languages.

(None listed yet)

Additional Plugins

Note that additional plugins are still hosted on our old ​Sourceforge Tracker. Some of these plugins may be updated to work with Pidgin, and some still may be for older versions.

Development of Third-Party Plugins

If you're looking to develop a third-party plugin, you may find these resources valuable:

• C Plugin Howto (still in progress)
• API Documentation
• Third Party Plugin Translation Support