XMPP for Steam friends and chats

[Max Otto von S]

I would like to see something like XMPP-based Steam messaging.
It will be perfect if I'll can have an ability to chat with friends and on group chats with my favourite Jabber client.

for example, having an address like [e-mail] and conferences like [e-mail].

[Rapio]

@pashaz Thanks for posting this here.

+1 for xmpp and all that.

Edit: A steam chat protocol <-> XMPP transport would be enough to fix most features. That way they could keep their internal protocol if they want.

[Doctor_Breen]

There is already a possibility to use steam via XMPP. Using the Spectrum2 transport with libpurple backend enables it to use the same protocols available for libpurple based messengers (Pidgin) . I tried the "Pidgin-opensteamworks" - Plugin and after some fiddling (I had to recompile everything from source) I was able to see and chat with all my friends of steam via XMPP. OF course, you need a server supporting that transport, or make your own..
That library uses the steam-mobile API so they saw me as "Online from mobile device" .
But as I said, its kinda buggy (I get JSON errors in console and sometimes odd usernames show up in the roster)
So I support the idea to switch to XMPP for their chat protocol.

[rtgreen]

Good idea! This is very cool to chat with my steam firends from my favorit XMPP client. And yes, XMPP - STEAM transport is good solution. But transport must created by Valve, or connect to account via STEAM API. I don't want take my STEAM password to a third party.

[Hige]

I'm waiting for this for like month at least!

[Siiiick!]

+1 for xmpp

[djkqwnd]

At least a transport would be nice.

[noumes]

+1 for xmpp

[Ein Kleiner Jagermeister]

+1 for xmpp

[Блискавиця]

+1 for XMPP
We must make a petition, guys!
P.S. Steam account plugin for Pidgin - crossplatform IM client places here https://code.google.com/p/pidgin-opensteamworks/
- show avatars
- show "In game" status
- chat working perfectly

[Léo]

Max Otto von S a écrit :

I would like to see something like XMPP-based Steam messaging.
It will be perfect if I'll can have an ability to chat with friends and on group chats with my favourite Jabber client.

for example, having an address like [e-mail] and conferences like [e-mail].

+ 1 for xmpp

[Programie]

+1 or simply implement additional protocols into the Steam client to allow Steam users to directly join a XMPP server and other IM networks from Steam.

[toastal]

2023, and still wanna see this. I'd love interoperability without needing to fire up the whole app or leaving my TUI client.

[lightwo]

This post is pretty old, but this would absolutely be a great idea for so many reasons. Even to this day, the only two ways to chat over Steam are the ultra basic Pidgin plugin and opening the web chat.

One thing I'd especially like being added, other than if interoperability was possible, would be encryption. So many accounts have gotten hijacked due to valuable items, you simply cannot trust your unencrypted communication to stay private.

[Michael]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.