sending instant messages through python (msn)
- by code_by_night
ok I am well aware there are many other questions about this, but I have been searching and have yet to find a solid proper answer that doesnt revolve around jabber or something worse. (no offense to jabber users, just I don't want all the extras that come with it)
I currently have msnp and twisted.words, I simply want to send and receive messages, have read many examples that have failed to work, and msnp is poorly documented.
My preference is msnp as it requires much less code, I'm not looking for something complicated.
Using this code I can login, and view my friends that are online (can't send them messages though.):
import msnp
import time, threading
msn = msnp.Session()
msn.login('[email protected]', 'XXXXXX')
msn.sync_friend_list()
class MSN_Thread(threading.Thread):
def run(self):
msn.start_chat("[email protected]") #this does not work
while True:
msn.process()
time.sleep(1)
start_msn = MSN_Thread()
start_msn.start()
I hope I have been clear enough, its pretty late and my head is not in a clear state after all this msn frustration.
edit: since it seems msnp is extremely outdated could anyone recommend with simple examples on how I could achieve this?
Don't need anything fancy that requires other accounts.
