Facebook Chat client

szabgab has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am trying to write a Facebook chat client, one that eventually will need to be a proxy between a bunch of users and their Facebook chat. On the page where Facebook apparently describes their API I found that I need to use the X-FACEBOOK-PLATFORM mechanism but on CPAN I have not found any code that seems to be implementing the Facebook Chat API. WWW::Facebook::API does not seem to handle chat and I have not found which module would handle the specific authentication method Facebook is using.

I wonder if anyone here has done this and if there are some code examples floating around?

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Re: Facebook Chat client by Corion (Patriarch) on Oct 14, 2010 at 15:58 UTC
From the limited knowledge I gathered from reading blogs on the interwebz, Facebook Chat is just XMPP / Jabber. So you should theoretically be able to use AnyEvent::XMPP or any other implementation to connect to them.	[reply]
Re: Facebook Chat client by Anonymous Monk on Jun 03, 2011 at 21:09 UTC
Regarding the facebook chat client idea, you would also have to consider the amount of coding and work to be carried out but excluding that, your idea is possible indeed. First off you would need to create your own chat client either in AJAX or JAVASCRIPT as these are the most effective and successful and then use a proxy to connect to a facebook chat server e.g. X-Facebook-platform	[reply]