Return of the dreaded 405 error

[ProximaSolaris]

Hey all,
Error 405 - "User must verify their account on www.facebook.com" is back. Even if I approve the login via either the website or the phone app, it refuses to let Pidgin log in and keeps giving the same error

[peci1]

Just try changing the Messenger password. It helped me.

[DMJC]

Try my repository https://github.com/DMJC/purple-facebook I've fixed this.

[peci1]

How do I correctly switch to your fork? It creates a plugin called libpurple-facebook-plugin.so, while the original creates libfacebook.so. When I reboot Pidgin, my existing account still uses the old plugin. And when I try adding a new account, there is no second Facebook option.

[DMJC]

I've renamed the output file in the meson build system. It should now be a drop-in replacement for your existing plugin. libfacebook.so is generated. Thanks for the feedback.

[lukasz-r]

I've just removed the old plugin from my distro's official repo (OpenSUSE Tumbleweed) and installed your new plugin. Unfortunately I can't login, I keep getting the

Invalid username or password (401)

error.

I tried changing the Facebook password, logging in and out to Facebook account on the website and removing and adding the account in Pidgin, so far no success.

[peci1]

FB changed something and broke all 3rd party plugins. Until somebody figures out how to circumvent it, there's no joy.

[DMJC]

I can still login, to use my plugin I had to accept the certificates when they pop up, you also need to sign in with email/password. I think goto the Facebook page and authorise the login when it asks about an attempted login from time/location.

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[Akila3]

how do I use your Facebook plugin in Windows PC that uses Pidgin?

[DMJC]

You'll need to download the sourcecode, and compile it for windows. I only use Linux and don't maintain a windows build environment.

[Akila3]

ohh, I don't know how to compile code :(