Facebook Chat, no works!

[jamlfy]

I'm testing the module, but when I try to connect to facebook chat.

var xmpp = require('simple-xmpp');

xmpp.on('online', function() {
    console.log('Yes, I\'m connected!');
});

xmpp.on('error', function(err) {
    console.error(err);
});

xmpp.connect({
    jid : "12345567890123@chat.facebook.com",
    password : "the_password",
    host : "chat.facebook.com",
    port : 5222
});

The server responds

$ node app.js
XMPP authentication failure

And I do not understand the generated authentication. If there are many applications that have no api

[arunoda]

Facebook uses special way of authenticating. It is not supported by XMPP library behind simple-xmpp.

[soggie]

I managed to get this working. You can't use username/password but you can use the accessToken method. What I did was:

1. Create a simple app using everyauth
2. Make sure "xmpp_login" scope is included in the oauth scope for facebook
3. console.log the returned access_token
4. Implement the simple-xmpp example in a different app
5. Provide your JID (google for how to find it), your app_id (remember to create an app in facebook first), set host to chat.facebook.com, and access_token to your user's access token

It works for me, no problems.

[arunoda]

Wow.

Cool. Thanks for sharing your experience.

On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 5:24 AM, Ruben Tan Long Zheng < reply@reply.github.com

wrote:

I managed to get this working. You can't use username/password but you can use the accessToken method. What I did was:

1. Create a simple app using everyauth
2. Make sure "xmpp_login" scope is included in the oauth scope for facebook
3. console.log the returned access_token
4. Implement the simple-xmpp example in a different app
5. Provide your JID (google for how to find it), your app_id (remember to create an app in facebook first), set host to chat.facebook.com, and access_token to your user's access token

It works for me, no problems.

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[statico]

+1

Very helpful, @soggie -- thanks!

[soggie]

We should close this case now, because I can confirm it works.

[arunoda]

yep great :)