Google+ Hangouts API closing?

[dmhendricks]

Forgive my ignorance, but does this mean that the YakYak client and/or hangupjs will stop working on 25 Apr 2017?

• Announcement: Google discontinuing API for Hangouts

Thank you,
Daniel

[lorenzos]

I don't think so. From my understanding the one that is discontinued is not the API used in this repo, but the Google+ Hangouts API, which is currently used to develop the Hangouts "applications", the ones you can see for example during Hangouts (video)call window (like screensharing, photo sharing, YouTube shared playlists, etc).

Rather, I'd be "worried" by this instead: Google Hangouts is getting a major overhaul to take on Slack - The Verge. Pretty sure our reverse-engineered API will be changed, and new (this time, official) APIs for bots and clients will be released.

[averissimo]

@dmhendricks this topic also appeared in yakyak and in the parent hangupjs

yakyak/yakyak#541 and tdryer/hangups#293

as @lorenzos said, that announcement should not have any impact, but the other one he referred could.

It can be a good thing, as moving to a stable public API would be better than using a reversed engineered web api.. (an open protocol would be the ideal scenario, but google abandoned that pledge long ago with hangouts release)

but odds are that google would change the protocol rather abruptly which would lead to some down time.