Editing Pidgin (software) (section)

=== Plugins ===
Various other features are supported using third-party [[Plug-in (computing)|plugins]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ThirdPartyPlugins |title=Pidgin Third-Party Plugins |access-date=September 22, 2009|publisher=pidgin.im}}</ref> Such features include:

* [[Discord]] text chat via the purple-discord plugin<ref name="Discord" />
* [[Facebook]] chat via purple-facebook
* [[Google Chat]] via purple-googlechat
* microblogs ([[GNU social]], [[Twitter]])
* [[Slack (software)]] via slack-libpurple
* [[Skype protocol|Skype]] text chat via skype4pidgin, renamed SkypeWeb<ref>{{cite web|url=https://github.com/EionRobb/skype4pidgin/tree/master/skypeweb|title=SkypeWeb plugin github repository|website=[[GitHub]] |access-date=December 2, 2019}}</ref> plugin
* [[Telegram (software)]] via tdlib-purple
* [[End-to-end encryption]], through [[Off-the-Record Messaging]] (OTR)
* Adding [[mathematical formula]]s written in [[LaTeX]] to conversations
* Notifications (such as showing "toaster" popups or [[Snarl (software)|Snarl]] notifications, or lighting LEDs on laptops)
* Showing contacts what the user is listening to in various media players
* Watching videos directly into a conversation when receiving a video sharing website link ([[YouTube]], [[Vimeo]])