Re: need to send msg from a script to YMsg, AIM

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On Sunday 28 December 2003 18:17, nick wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to find a way to send a message to an yahoo messenger
> user, but from within a script. Ideally, from a Perl script, but
> could also handle some C programming (although i do not have a
> compiler on windows).

This can be done from EB-Lite (aka Everybuddy) in much the same way as 
from Gaim, with the exception that eb-lite doesn't need a graphical 
interface running all the time (this is usually neither here nor 
there).

To send a message from eb-lite, first download and install a release 
tarball, and set up your Yahoo/AIM account as normal, with the ebqt 
interface. Then, add the intended recipient of your messages to your 
contact list. 

To send a message, execute this command:
eb-send "<name of your contact>" "<your message>"

EB-Lite is known to work under Cygwin, but not yet under MinGW (Edward's 
working on that, but it's a bit of a struggle from the looks of it). 


Having said all that, from what you're doing, I'm not altogether sure 
that using a pre-built messenger such as EB or Gaim is the best idea. A 
quick Google indicates that there are already one or two existing 
Yahoo! messenger libraries for Perl (Net::YahooMessenger and Net::YMSG 
for starters), and several for AIM. Honestly speaking, it will probably 
be better for you to use one of those directly than to try to talk to a 
messaging client, which implements a bunch of stuff you really don't 
want or need.

For more information, search the modules at www.cpan.org

Meredydd