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Can anyone provide me a walkthrough of how to set up Facebook on Pidgin?

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You need facebook username to use with pidgin as well as empathy. Select protocol to facebook in pidgin add account

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On username section enter just username i.e. facebook.com/USERNAME will take you to your facebook public page. If you don't have one you should get it.

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  • sorry Sagar...but this doesnt work at all. I enter what you've asked me to enter and it says: Invalid XMPP ID. Username portion must be set.
    – Elysium
    Apr 11, 2012 at 22:31
  • I've tried almost all options and used this guide (wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pidgin#Facebook_XMPP) to set up Pidgin for my facebook acccount, but it is simply impossible. At the username section I am using my actual username....not the long copied link from facebook...so that cannot be the issue. Is there anyone out there who had had issues of the same type?
    – Elysium
    Apr 12, 2012 at 9:31
  • I hope you are clear about username its not the username of your email that you use to login to facebook. Facebook itself provides username in its account settings sections. That is the username you should use. I am still focusing on this because I am using facebook chat with pidgin as I type this. Also check if there are certificates from facebook in tools > certificates section and try to remove it and re-try to login to facebook. Apr 12, 2012 at 9:47
  • I had to change the port from 5222 to 443. Found that somewhere googling.
    – joschi
    Apr 12, 2012 at 12:08
  • I had to restart the application. Now it is working just fine. Thanks guys.
    – Elysium
    Apr 13, 2012 at 16:43
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Facebook has stopped this service for more see: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/04/facebook-chat-api-empathy-pidgin-stop-working

For those of you who want to use Facebook Chat in Pidgin, there's a new plugin which makes this possible, called purple-facebook For more information see this: http://www.webupd8.org/2015/08/use-facebook-chat-in-pidgin-with-purple.html

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I can confirm this also, I went to my facebook page and went into General account settings and found the user name that facebook assigns. It is the long line with the http:// the only thing you need is the part where it has your name in it towards the end. I copy and pasted that into the part in pidgin where it ask for the user name and applied. Whola working pidgin that shows facebook im contacts. Hope this helps someone... Peace....

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Adapted from @vasandharaj's link, to be persisted here, because it simply works, although FB announced the end of xmpp support by 30th of April 2015 (pidgin-im.de, german) and now it's the 6th of May 2015 and I connected right now for the first time.

Setup Facebook Chat in Pidgin (using Jabber/XMPP)

1. In Pidgin go to "Accounts" and select "Manage Accounts". On the Basic tab enter the following info:

Pidgin IM - Add Facebook account - basic settings

  • Protocol: XMPP
  • Username: [your Facebook username, check your account setting for your profile URL]
  • Domain: chat.facebook.com
  • Resource: Pidgin
  • Password: [your Facebook password]
  • Local alias: [your name]

2. Click the Advanced tab, enter the following info:

Pidgin IM - Add Facebook account - basic settings

  • Connection Security: encrypt connection if available.
  • Connect port: 5222
  • Connect server: chat.facebook.com

Ok, that's it. You can chat with your friends with Pidgin-IM.

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    I want to update that now it seems FB shut down the chat for external clients. At least I can no more connect with pidgin or jitsi.
    – domih
    Nov 11, 2015 at 20:36
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See the following link for instructions:

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    Welcome to Ask Ubuntu! I see your answer is not much more than a (non-functional) link. As this demonstrates, answers which consist of just a link are not useful if the link doesn't work. Please summarize the steps in your source back into your answer to help fight link rot. Thanks! Jun 8, 2012 at 6:14
  • Still not great but at least the link works now.
    – Oli
    Oct 23, 2012 at 10:39

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