Facebook Chat In Adium « Eli Dourado

Facebook Chat In Adium

09May08

Adium just added support for Facebook chat. I wanted to try it out, but since they don’t have any nightly builds that I’m aware of, I had to build it myself. You can get my build here (scroll down to get the download link). I am, of course, not responsible if this sets your computer on fire, deletes all your files, or causes you any other pain or loss. This is not an officially sanctioned Adium release. Adium is OS X only, but if you want Facebook chat on Windows, try Digsby, which I hear is the new hotness.

UPDATE 5/15: New build, which fixes whatever Facebook changed. It works again.

By the way, Mac/Facebook users might want to check out Facile.

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1 Shane on May 9, 2008 said:

Hi,

Just wondering if you get the overly large “F” service icon? I’m running your build from above, and I have my view to show the service icons in the contact list and the Facebook service icon is HUGE :)

Just not sure if there is a file I can edit to use my own custom Facebook icons?

Thanks,
Shane.
2 Shane on May 9, 2008 said:

OK - just found a better icon than mine:
http://uploads.neowin.net/forum/post-26896-1191376638_thumb.png

Thanks,
Shane.
3 Adrian on May 10, 2008 said:

I’m also getting the large service icon, how do you change it to a smaller one?
4 Beau on May 10, 2008 said:

Downloading now! :-)

@Shane - Hello fellow MacTalker!
5 Shane on May 10, 2008 said:

Hi,

To fix the large Facebook service icon, close Adium and:

1. Right click on Eli’s Adium build
2. Choose “Show Package Contents”
3. Browse to “/Contents/Plugins”
4. Right click on “Facebook.AdiumPlugin”
5. Choose “Show Package Contents”
6. Browse to “/Contents/Resources”
7. Right click the “facebook-small.gif” and choose “Copy”
8. Right click in the Finder window and choose “Paste”
9. Rename “facebook.gif” to something else (ie facebook.gif.bak)
10. Rename facebook-small-copy.gif to facebook.gif

You can now close the window and start Adium again. The service icon will now be small.

I highly recommend grabbing the icon I linked to above, resizing it to 16×16 and saving as facebook.gif and using it instead - the gif included with Adium is kinda crappy :)

Regards,
Shane.
6 Adrian on May 10, 2008 said:

Wonderful .. that worked a treat .. thanks Shane :)
7 Erica on May 10, 2008 said:

I just wanted to confirm that Digsby is the new hotness!
8 John on May 10, 2008 said:

there’s also this facebook icon:
http://flickr.com/photos/autodafe/2189253895/
9 Andy on May 10, 2008 said:

Doesn’t work for me :( I can create a Facebook account but it doesn’t sign on, and when I look at the options the server and port are empty. Should there be something in there?
10 Eli on May 10, 2008 said:

Andy, I think the options are irrelevant. It didn’t take for me the first time, either. Try signing onto JUST Facebook without the other services.
11 mark on May 10, 2008 said:

Eli: i posted this on the adium blog, but it appears that the facebook implementation is flawed as after a while it refuses to update who is on/offline. im not sure if this is a problem with the build you have made or in general (and wont know until adium 1.3.0 is released) - but have confirmed that this happens by logging onto the facebook site and receiving a completely different set of online contacts
12 Guillaume Moigneu on May 10, 2008 said:

Here is a new nighty build (08-05-11) with the icon issue solved: http://upload.moigneu.net/Adium-080511.zip
13 Eli on May 10, 2008 said:

mark, it’s likely that since they just announced Facebook support, there are bugs. Just give it time.
14 adam on May 10, 2008 said:

HEY!!!

Ok so i wasn’t really liking that the facebook group was so long and made the scroll bar always be there when i had the group expanded, so i detatched the facebook group and attatched it it to the right side of my screen-

now i can show normal contacts by mousing over to the left side of the screen, and facebook contacts by mousing over to the right! It looks pretty sweet :-)
15 adam on May 10, 2008 said:

here’s a screen shot, although i’m sure you can imagine it anyway-

http://www.grabup.com/uploads/9d416ca890197e193579df7037c3b3a9.png
16 Emilio on May 14, 2008 said:

I log in but i dont see any contacts…weird…
17 Adrian on May 14, 2008 said:

Strange, it was working fine and then I logged onto facebook and since then it says it’s connected but no one shows up in my friends list (although they do on the facebook website) ..

Do we know if facebook have changed it at all in the last day or so? As at the moment it doesn’t work at all :(
18 Josh on May 14, 2008 said:

Facebook did change their setup. Other Facebook chat programs are not working (Digsby, for example).
19 Jay on May 15, 2008 said:

Facebook chat on digsby seems to be working fine
20 Bryan Bartow on May 15, 2008 said:

I also can not get my Facebook contacts to show in this build.
21 Stefano on May 16, 2008 said:

no contacts… even with the new build. although, i am seen online through the chat on the facebook site… when someone messages me i get the message, am somewhat able to chat back, but there name shows up as a 7 digit (i believe) code.
22 Eli on May 16, 2008 said:

Stefano, it still works for me.