Google just launched their slack competitor, which will be available for every company that uses their G Suite.
Webhooks docs are here: Build a Google Chat app as a webhook | Google for Developers
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A discussion is underway about adding support for Google Chat in Discourse. After Google launched their Slack competitor, Falco shared the webhooks documentation, sparking interest in integrating the feature. Several users, including Sakshi_Gupta, Marcel_C, Stephen, and Justin_Vega, expressed their desire for this feature.
Falco explained that providers are added either through community contributions or customer sponsorship. Dan_Turner offered to sponsor the feature, but it wasn’t initially pursued. However, david later reached out to Dan_Turner and implemented a v1 of the integration. A pull request is available, and david will post documentation once it’s merged.
For those interested in installing the plugin, david provided instructions for self-hosted Discourse instances. He also shared a link to a tutorial on setting up Google Chat notifications using the Discourse Chat Integration plugin.
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Is the support for this plugin expected to be added any time soon ?
Would be a nice addition
Curious about this myself, currently assisting a charity who have gotten into Hangouts Chat in a big way.
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Has support for this plugin been added yet?
No, it has not.
Providers are added as either a community contribution or by us when sponsored by a customer.
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Hey there. How could we sponsor this as a customer please?
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Hey @Dan_Turner, did you end up sponsoring this?
No, nobody picked this up.
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Hi Dan - sorry about that! If you’re still interested in sponsoring it please do shoot us an email at team@discourse.org and we can work it the details.
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I had a go at implementing a v1 of this. The google API is not hugely flexible in terms of formatting, but this is what I’ve come up with:
The pull request can be found here:
https://github.com/discourse/discourse-chat-integration/pull/57
Once it’s been reviewed I’ll get it merged, and post some documentation in a howto topic
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Hey thanks so much for doing this, amazing! How do I install if I’ve downloaded the zip file from github please?
How have you installed Discourse? Using the standard self-hosting instructions?
If so, all you need to do is update the plugin by visiting /admin/upgrade. The google chat provider will then be available in your site settings.
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No sorry, using a hosted service : (
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