Add event listeners for the chat window so that apps can interact with users chat.

+1 for API access to the chat feature

absolutely needed, since xmpp is being left behind.

I want this one!

I need start a chat conversation from API.

This is important for the GQueues bot which used XMPP with google talk before.

It is also important for those who are switching from IRC and want to bring their bot.

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Yes please

api access to the chat would be really nice

I'm pretty surprised this doesn't exist already. Seems like a particularly useful feature. Please add.

Strange thing is that the chat inside a Hangouts window is completly disconnected from the chat inside Gmail/Hangouts Mobile App. If you go in a Hangouts window and send messages (in the right chat panel), the other end won't get those messages through GMail/Hangouts App. Same goes for the other way. Furthemore, XMPP being abandonned, if no API is proposed for Hangouts chat conversations, might as well say that Google is locking itself just as Apple.

Starred!

Hey +1 on this feature. Would be nice to retrieve the chat!

+1 This is obviously a needed feature to replace the missing XMPP connectivity

This would be much needed so we can add out team chatbot to hangouts.

how is this not already a thing

+1 this would be profitable for google, with small ads.

Please just star the issue and not comment, otherwise I have a new email with nothing important added.

I 19th this!

So, this is a big problem, and it's important that google treats this as, at the least, a medium-high level of priority. There are plenty of people trying to use hangouts for serious things, like software deployments. We need a record of the conversations in the chat window, and without them it makes it hard to justify using a platform without such a basic feature. The mustaches are great, don't get me wrong, but please just give me some xml or some format so we can get this record.

This all sound like Oyoyoy :)

Google sees everyone using closed services like whatsapp and Apple's products. Google does the math and concludes that the world is closing up, people are still happy about it, and the closed products make good money. Google wants to be part of this show.

Instead of whining - yes, i'm talking to you - start uninstalling closed apps and services! Start using the most open platforms. Make your friends, family and coworkers contact you using open platforms - if any such exists....

Please add a api access to the chat lines

If you're going to kill XMPP then at least give us something!

If you're going to kill XMPP then at least give us something!

are google's XMPP servers officially dead? Can I still use them? I can still ping xmpp-server.l.google.com

Last I heard newer style Hangout chats no longer use the XMPP servers but they are still running as not everybody has transitioned to Hangouts yet.

this one currently still works: talk.google.com.

in fact, there is a bridge between hangouts chat and google talk xmpp servers. but they will probably shut down xmpp servers one day when enough people have migrated from GTalk to Hangouts. the bridge works in a strange manner: some messages get through others don't. if one send a msg from GTalk to a migrated gtalk-to-hangouts user, he might get the msg, but I think the other way around doesn't work well.

anyways, just give us an API for chat for google plus/hangouts users. this will avoid us screwing around with some other google plus APIs such as Activities, Moments and Comments to send a simple message to a google plus user.

this should totally exist. google is becoming what it used to fight :(

Many people on this thread will benefit from reading Thor's excellent comment on how Google prioritizes feature requests: https://plus.google.com/100950714873798861880/posts/MA9kYepxgvC

to develop apps on IPTV in which we are proving chatting service on TV it is must . please add API for this

This feels like a sorely needed feature. 10/10 would develop for.

would be extremely useful since Hangouts does not support xmpp. Would also be nice to keep all the functionality from the AppEngine XMPP API

Absolutely, need to record and store the chat history of hangout session.

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+1 on this feature. Would be really useful for some internal projects.

You like to integrate this with out Asterisk phone system...turning of xmpp kills us (we have custom apps written to monitor our phones and Google Talk (xmpp)...please get this done ASAP!!!!

Since the move to hangouts killed XMPP we need a Hangouts API replacement!

Need this...

Please do

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Need this feature.

Would allow us to do some really interesting things with some of our internal tools. +1.

Yes please!

yes, i need this.

One here in python: https://github.com/tdryer/hangups

I am interested in this feature too. Thanks! +1

Seriously - if Google would allow code to listen to / be invited in / interact with chats there is a world of possibilities. IRC, slack, XMPP are platforms that allow this and there are good reasons for google to open up similar apis. Chat ops or chat with the internet of things...

yes! I need it too to employ!!!

https://github.com/tdryer/hangups

It is very sad to see a company like Google locking its users to a (very very badly crafted) application.

Preventing other developers to code tools to integrate chat messaging (by not providing an API) into their company's processes.

Can't you just use Hangouts for A/V and keep chat with XMPP?

What about the don't be evil motto?

If I could, I would ban the use of Hangouts in my company.

API------- >>>>>>>>>>> https://github.com/tdryer/hangups

Sad how Hangouts is such a step backward