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Asked: 2026-05-13T22:01:53+00:00

I’m trying to access my google talk contacts’ custom status messages with xmpppy. I’m

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I’m trying to access my google talk contacts’ custom status messages with xmpppy. I’m made it this far:

import xmpp
import sys

userID   = 'myname@gmail.com' 
password = 'mypassword'
ressource = 'Script'

jid  = xmpp.protocol.JID(userID)
jabber  = xmpp.Client(jid.getDomain(), debug=[])

connection = jabber.connect(('talk.google.com',5222))
auth = jabber.auth(jid.getNode(), password, ressource)

jabber.sendInitPresence(requestRoster=1)
myroster = jabber.getRoster()

the roster object myroster now contains my contacts, but the custom status message is not included.

myroster.getStatus('oneofmyfriends@gmail.com')

returns None

looking at the ‘raw roster’, I can see that the resources dictionary is empty

u'oneofmyfriends@googlemail.com': {'ask': None, 'resources': {}, 'name': u'Some Name', 'groups': [], 'subscription': u'both'}

The weird thing is that I have gotten this to work today, but I the code might have been slightly different, but I can’t figure out what exactly I did differently…

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers,

Martin

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  1. Editorial Team

    It’s a timing issue. Add a handler with:

    jabber.RegisterHandler('presence', myPresenceHandler)

def myPresenceHandler(self, con, event):
  fromjid = event.getFrom().getStripped()
  status = myroster.getStatus(fromjid)

    BEFORE connecting. Then make sure to call jabber.Process() in a loop. The issue is that with your code, you’ll sometimes receive presence stanzas before you look at the roster object, and sometimes after.

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