Does a gmail terminal chat client exist or anyway one can write it?
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Don't you already have it on the Gmail UI? – r0ca Aug 20 '10 at 14:47
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Yes, I do. But I want to do it through terminal. – zubinmehta Aug 20 '10 at 15:27
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Yes. Gmail uses the Jabber chat protocol which has been around for much longer than gchat and is supported by a number of open source command line chatting programs. One of my favorite terminal chat clients is Centericq which supports jabber along with many other chat protocol. It is ncurses based:

To connect to gchat use these settings:
Username: Your Google Talk username (without any @ symbol or domain information)
Password: Your password
Login Server: Enter the portion of your email address after the @ symbol. For example, gordon@example.com will enter example.com as the Login Server value.
Use SSL: Yes
Manually specify connection host: Yes
Host: talk.google.com
Port: 5223
Keep connection alive: Yes
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Pidgin and Irssi also support jabber (and XMPP for facebook chat) – isomorphismes Nov 01 '12 at 08:03
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Part of the Pidgin IM client is a terminal based client called Finch. Take a look at the Using Finch page on the Pidgin wiki.
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