# Internet Messenger on Auto-Reply!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/internet-messenger-on-auto-reply/241270>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [October 11, 2007, 5:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/internet-messenger-on-auto-reply/241270 "2007-10-11T17:46:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![javadi82](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3be4f8/32.png) [@javadi82](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/javadi82)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2007, 5:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/internet-messenger-on-auto-reply/241270/1 "2007-10-11T17:46:32Z")

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I get a lot of questions from people about a few products that I support on Yahoo Messenger.  
My idea is to write a program(plug-in?) to automatically parse these queries and see if  
there is any answer already present in the online manual/database. And send them back  
as a response.

Is this possible to do? It would be ok if I could implement this for other providers like Gtalk or other.

After searching a bit on the internet, I think the way to go about this would be to write a Jabber-client?  
But isn’t a client too heavy? Some process that listens to incoming connections to that port and _automatically_  
replies would be sufficient!

After some more searching, I guess this can be implemented in Yahoo! Messenger with their available SDK for Messenger. But, the manual is heavily Windows-centric. Not much info on how to do it on Linux/Ubuntu.  
Please let me know how one would go about implementing a similar thing for Gtalk…

Any pointers would be very helpful.

Thanks!