The union of jabber and vkontakte.ru

After reading the recent topic “IM on VKontakte”, I decided to carefully study this topic and find a solution for convenient communication on VKontakte without going to the site.

Having pidgin and jabber acc on xmpp.ru I wanted to get all my friends from vkontakte in roster.

We look at what came out of this under a cat.
So, for a start, I began to look for a solution in the shortest way - by looking for a plugin for pidgin to use vkontakte as a normal communication protocol. Unfortunately, I could not find such a plug-in (
Even nothing similar to the development. It can be seen, for some reason pidgin is not very complaining about the users of the Runet. It's a shame.

Then I went the other way - I remembered that the jabber protocol is strong not only independent of AOL, but also such a wonderful thing as transports. Searches on the Internet led little to anything, and then I began to search in the VKontakte groups and found a very good project under the dissonant name pyvk-t .
I didn’t install this software on my jabber server, since I use OpenFire , which is very problematic to fasten any transports if they were not initially bolted by the developer, so I took the path of least resistance - use ready-made servers with transports.

On the pyvk-t page there is a small list of servers holding this transport:
eqx.su
hartois.info
games.onego.ru
zoo.dontexist.net the

first of them is of the developers server, on which new versions are constantly tested, because of which nothing works periodically :) Therefore, by trial and error, I came to the zoo.dontexist.net server , as the most stable of all.

I also found an annoying jamb of pidgin'a - the lack of a review of the jabber server services, apparently multi-protocol makes itself felt :(. If anyone knows how to implement a service overview in pidgin - please plz.

Therefore, to add transport, I used another jabber client (psi +)
Click General - Service Discovery
enter the server name ( zoo.dontexist.net )
look in the list vkontakte.ru transport , right click - register . enter your email and password to access VKontakte, click the REGISTER
(for other clients similar scheme)

After all the manipulations in our roster will transport VKontakte, will open the dialogue box with him and type / login

then transport "includes" vkontakt

recruit / the get roster of UPD
after Why all your friends from VKontakte will be added to the General group, you will need to give everyone authorization or configure in advance so that the client gives authorization to everyone.

in general, everything is ready. exit psi go to pidgin, all contacts are visible, everything works fine.

the transport has some more settings (such as alerts about adding to groups, etc.) to view them type / config
to change them type / config variable_name, 1
1 - true, 0 - false

this is my first article, please do not kick too much.