pipe.im

Modular, scriptable communication router

TL;DR:

• Centralize multiple channels like Facebook, ICQ, IRC, IMAP, POP3, SMS etc...
• Automate communication with scripts, like: "Send me a SMS when Felix sends me an E-Mail"
• Translate between channels, e.g.: Chat with your facebook friends from Steam

Intro

All services and librarys are implemented in C++ using features of C++11. One of the design goals is to have few dependencies, the core library libpipe has no dependencies except for a C++11 compilant compiler. Another design goal was to build everything modular and platform independent. Pipe works on Windows, Linux and OSX and has pure C interfaces for interfacing to libpipe and writing pipe services. A easy to use C++ interface layer is also included.

This repository currently consists of four projects

• libpipe: Plugin-based library for multi channel communication and automation
• PipeExtensionPurple: Enables communicating with libpurple supported networks (e.g. ICQ, IRC, Facebook, ...)
• PipeServiceHost & PipeServiceInstance: Web+Websocket server for SaaS hosting of pipe instances including a ExtJS based Webinterface

Todo

• libpipe
  • Default DOM should be restructured
  • Provide access to DOM in root node and scripting
  • Scripting should be modular and not embedded in libpipe
• PipeExtensionPurple
  • Implement all missing features
  • Figure out how to handle contacts outside of the contact list
• PipeServiceHost & PipeServiceInstance
  • Implement admin interface
  • Implement user management commands
• Write a Qt based client
• Documentation

Build instructions

Windows

• Install MSVC2013
• Download the external folder and extract it to the root or create your own folder
• Open project with MSVC2013 and compile

Linux

• Install GCC >= 4.9.1
• Install CMake >= 2.8
• Install the current master of Poco
  • run git checkout master
  • run ./configure --omit=XML,JSON,Data,Data/SQLite,MongoDB,Data/MySQL,Data/ODBC,CppParser,PDF,Zip,PageCompiler --no-samples --no-tests
• Install glib
• Install libpurple >= 2.10.9
• Build Pipe
  • run cmake CMakeLists.txt
  • run make
  • run make install

OS X Mavericks

• Install XCode and XCode Command-Line tools
• Install CMake >= 2.8 (brew install cmake)
• Install PkgConfig (brew install pkgconfig)
• Install libpurple (brew install finch)
• Install the current master of Poco
  • run git checkout master
  • run ./configure --config=Darwin-clang-libc++ --omit=XML,JSON,Data,Data/SQLite,MongoDB,Data/MySQL,Data/ODBC,CppParser,PDF,Zip,PageCompiler --no-samples --no-tests
  • run make
  • run make install
• Build Pipe
  • run cmake CMakeLists.txt
  • run make
  • run make install

Used open source projects

• libpipe
  • Ductape
  • a modified version of JSON11
• PipeExtensionPurple
  • libpurple
• PipeServiceHost & PipeServiceInstance
  • Poco