Is there a plugin or hidden feature in Pidgin that parses HTML in chats? I couldn't find anything on the web.
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Did you ever find a solution?– Lynden ShieldsJul 29, 2013 at 4:17
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@LyndenShields Nope. This was for Hipchat which has a nice desktop app now, so I'm not using Pidgin for this anymore. Sorry :\– alfJul 29, 2013 at 17:59
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that's my exact use case. Trying to avoid having multiple chat clients. Oh well.– Lynden ShieldsJul 30, 2013 at 4:51
2 Answers
Pidgin itself has a widget it calls "GtkIMHTML" or similar, which is used for the chat windows. It, as most chat services do these days, supports a subset of HTML for conversations, which is used for embedding images and such. It is however, not a full HTML/Browser engine.
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Cool, thanks for the answer! How can I enable this feature so it parses all messages? For example, when someone writes
<a href="http://example.com">Example</a>
I want to see the actual link, not the HTML code.– alfJul 2, 2012 at 15:47
DeWYSIWYGification Plugin 2.6.3 does what you wish. It can be reached via the pidgin-plugin-pack, usually installed via Synaptic and in the majority of the cases pre-installed with Pidgin itself.
After installing, simply enable in the "Plugins" section. It has nothing configurable but will work exactly as you wish...
Unfortunately, it only works uni-directional towards your contacts. Which means that your contacts will receive the links you send (as in your example to @dobey's comment) or any other html code you send.
I am sorry if this doesn't fix your need to "receive html" but I post this answer just if you find it useful.
Good luck!