libyahoo2 - A C library for Yahoo! Messenger

libyahoo2 version 1.0.1 - 26 Jul 2010

libyahoo2 is a C library interface to the new Yahoo! Messenger protocol. It supports major features of the protocol.

Feature list

• Messaging:
  • Sending messages (UTF-8 supported)
  • Send typing notification
• Buddy list management:
  • Add buddies
  • Remove buddies
  • Change buddy group
  • Ignore buddy
  • Unignore buddy
  • Reject buddy
  • Buddy status updates
  • Group renaming
• Yahoo Address book support
• Changing Status:
  • Regular status messages
  • Custom away/non-away status messages
• Conferencing:
  • Create new conference
  • Join existing conference
  • Invite members to join existing conference
  • Decline joining a conference
  • Leave a conference
  • Send message to conference
• Webcam support
  • Support for viewing other people's webcams
  • Support for broadcasting webcam images
• File Transfer:
  • Send file via Yahoo file transfer server
  • Receive files via Yahoo file transfer server
  • Receive files directly from another client
• Mail Notification
• Identities
  • Activate/Deactivate an identity
  • Send messages from a particular identity
  • Conferencing with a particular identity

libyahoo2 does not yet have support for Voice messages, nor for IMvironments.

Requires

libyahoo2 can use glib version 1.2 or version 2 if you have them and want them.

Contact

Please direct any comments or questions to the libyahoo2-users mailing list.

Authors / Contributors

libyahoo2 is derivative of the yahoo module from gaim. The following persons have contributed to gaim:

  Copyright © 1998-1999, Mark Spencer <markster AT marko.net>
	      1998-1999, Adam Fritzler <afritz AT marko.net>
	      1998-2002, Rob Flynn <rob AT marko.net>
	      2000-2002, Eric Warmenhoven <eric AT warmenhoven.org>
	      2001-2002, Brian Macke <macke AT strangelove.net>
		   2001, Anand Biligiri S <abiligiri AT users.sf.net>
		   2001, Valdis Kletnieks
		   2002, Sean Egan <bj91704 AT binghamton.edu>
		   2002, Toby Gray <toby.gray AT ntlworld.com>

This library also uses code from other libraries, namely:
Portions from libfaim copyright 1998, 1999 Adam Fritzler <afritz AT auk.cx>
Portions of Sylpheed copyright 2000-2002 Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y AT kcn.ne.jp>

Thanks also to Rodney Dawes for making the library versioned and introducing me to library versioning and redhat spec files.

Copyright

libyahoo2 is Copyright © 2002-2010 The libyahoo2 Project Authors and Contributors. Distribution is under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence.

Licence

libyahoo2 is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later version.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

Warranty

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See either the GNU General Public License or the Artistic License for more details.