Feature request: support for plurk.com

[Rico Sta. Cruz]

Plurk is a new microblogging service that's steadily gaining popularity.
http://www.plurk.com

[Rico Sta. Cruz (rico-ambiescent)]

Here's a relevant link:
http://code.google.com/p/plurkapipy/

Cheers!

[Ryan Paul (segphault)]

Plurk support will not be implemented in Gwibber until they release an official API or provide a clear and unambiguous answer about when we can expect to see a public API. There are technical challenges posed by using workarounds and I don't want to implement support for the service if I can't guarantee that I'll be able to continue supporting it in the future. There is no way of knowing whether the current approach that is based on reverse-engineering will be perpetually accessible. I will reconsider if Plurk opens its own official API or acknowledges that the unofficial backdoor is a valid means of using the service.

Sorry! I'd really like to support Plurk, but I can't do so until Plurk is willing to allow it.

[Tom "spot" Callaway (tcallawa)]

I emailed the Plurk people to ask if this unofficial backdoor is a "valid means of using the service" and they responded:

Hi Tom!

If it is a question of whether the unofficial backdoors are a valid means of using the service, yes it is -- as long as our terms of service are adhered to. It is important to note though, since these are unofficial hacks, they may break at any time/without warning. We may release a public API in the future.

For what its worth, I was the original developer of the RLPlurkAPI (http://code.google.com/p/rlplurkapi/) that is no longer supported.

Hope this answers your question :)

Regards,
Ryan Lim

[Ryan Paul (segphault)]

"It is important to note though, since these are unofficial hacks, they may break at any time/without warning."

That's really the issue. I'm not comfortable merging this feature into Gwibber as long as that problem exists. I do appreciate the work that you have done on this, however, so I'd like to find an alternate way for this feature to be supported and distributed.

I'm thinking about making a plugin system so that unofficially supported service modules can be installed by users in their home directory and used directly in gwibber.

[MJTA (mjtanton)]

http://www.plurk.com/API
Plurk DOES have an official API, it's through HTTP. It wouldn't be necessary to do workarounds, really.

[Andrew Gorcester (andrewsg)]

Now that Plurk does have an official API, perhaps it's time for a status change on this bug?

[Ais (zeldais)]

Would it be alright to ask how to add the .patch file?

[hansioux (hansioux)]

Plurk has an official API now, please change the won't fix status if sole reasoning was that Plurk did not have a public API.

[Anita (harlockina)]

I applied the patch and Plurk doesn't work.