Third-Party Plugins

This page is intended for plugin developers to use to make their plugins more visible to users. We do not 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 a row to the table below!

Note that we do not support any of these plugins. If you have problems with the plugins, you need to contact the plugin's developer using any resources available on the plugin's website. Any and all tickets citing bugs in third-party plugins will be closed as invalid, as we do not develop or support these plugins. You have been warned.

A further note to anyone editing this page: Make sure you have the correct website for the plugin you add. I am tired of fixing bad links and getting e-mail to my project because no one pays attention to their edits. -- rekkanoryo

So, all that said, here are the tables of plugins:

"Normal" Plugins

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

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

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

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