libPurple core-answerscripts plugin - Framework for hooking scripts to respond received messages for various libpurple clients such as pidgin or finch - This simple plugin just passes every single message received by any libPurple-based client (pidgin,finch) to sript(s) in user's home directory... So you can add various hooks to your pidgin or finch without need of writing and compiling own C plugin or messing with buggy perl plugin and restarting client after each change in plugin. - There are already few sample (answer)scripts in purple directory, so you can check how easy it is to write some script for pidgin or finch... Building & installation: - The libpurple header files are needed to compile the plugin. - To build and install : You can compile the plugin using $ make and install it with $ make install This will install it in ~/.purple/plugins so that only the user who install it can use it. $ make user Install main script and sample answerscripts to ~/.purple/answerscripts.d/ - To install it for everybody on your computer, $ make $ su # make install PREFIX="/path/to/libpurple" (this command as root user) generally /path/to/libpurple is /usr or /usr/local. If you don't know the path then you can find out using $ whereis libpurple and look for the part before "/lib/libpurple.so". Installing from packages: - ArchLinux: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37942