Purple(3)

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Okay bestie, this is the Purple(3) manual page, straight outta the User Contributed Perl Documentation. Buckle up, we’re talking Perl + libpurple. 💜

🌸 NAME 🌸

Purple — Perl extension to the libpurple instant messenger library. Periodt. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

use Purple;

🎀 ABSTRACT 🎀

This module provides the interface for using perl scripts as plugins in libpurple. No cap. 🫶

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

This module provides the interface for using perl scripts as plugins in Purple. With this, developers can write perl scripts that can be loaded in Purple as plugins. The scripts can interact with IMs, chats, accounts, the buddy list, libpurple signals, and more.

The API for the perl interface is very similar to that of the Purple C API, which can be viewed at http://developer.pidgin.im/doxygen/ or in the header files in the Purple source tree.

🔥 FUNCTIONS 🔥

• @accounts = Purple::accounts — Returns a list of all accounts, online or offline. Every single one, bestie. ✨
• @chats = Purple::chats — Returns a list of all chats currently open.
• @connections = Purple::connections — Returns a list of all active connections.
• @conversations = Purple::conversations — Returns a list of all conversations, both IM and chat, currently open.
• @conv_windows = Purple::conv_windows — Returns a list of all conversation windows currently open.
• @ims = Purple::ims — Returns a list of all instant messages currently open.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Purple C API documentation — http://developer.pidgin.im/doxygen/
• Purple website — http://pidgin.im/

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Christian Hammond, <chipx86@gnupdate.org>

🍓 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 🍓

Copyright 2003 by Christian Hammond

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the General Public License (GPL). For more information, see http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl.txt

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Mwah 💋 — that’s a wrap on Purple(3), from perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25. Stay iconic, bestie. 💖