profanity-plugins

Plugin support for Profanity is currently in development at the plugins branch.

Currently supported languages for writing plugins are Python, Ruby and C.

Building Profanity with plugin support

Check out the plugins branch and run the usual:

./bootstrap.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install

The last step will create a shared library libprofanity and install headers required for developing C plugins. If you don't want to run any C plugins, you can omit the last step.

You will need python-dev, ruby-dev and libtool packages installed on your system.

Loading plugins

1. Copy the plugin

For Python and Ruby plugins, copy the plugin to $XDG_DATA/profanity/plugins/, (~/.local/share/profanity/plugins/ on most systems).

For C plugins, build the plugin using the supplied Makefile, and then copy the .so file to the same location.

2. Add to profrc

For all types of plugins, the list of plugins to acutally load when starting Profanity is defined in $XDG_CONFIG/profanity/profrc (~/.config/profanity/profrc on most systems).

For example:

[plugins]
load=browser.py;connect.py;ChatStart.rb;cricket-score.py;platform-info.py;whoami.py;ascii.py                   

Example plugin code

Whilst the API is being developed, the following test plugins are a good reference of possible hooks and API calls available:

python-test.py
RubyTest.rb
test-c-plugin/*