Use this library to develop bots for Kik Messenger that are essentially automated humans.
It basically lets you do the same things as the offical Kik app by pretending to be a real smartphone client: It communicates with Kik's servers at talk1110an.kik.com:5223 over a modified version of the XMPP protocol.
First, make sure you are using Python 3, not python 2.7. Second, install it directly from GitHub:
git clone https://github.com/tomer8007/kik-bot-api-unofficial
pip3 install ./kik-bot-unofficial-api
Or, try to install with pip (from PyPi, could be unupdated):
pip3 install kik-unofficial
Looking for the newest features? Check out the new branch.
An example is worth a thoursand words. a good place to start is the examples/ directory.
It is as simple as:
from kik_unofficial.kikclient import KikClient
username, password = "your_kik_username", "your_kik_password"
kik = KikClient(username, password)
kik.send_message("other_kik_username", "Hello from bot!")Currently Supported Operations:
- Log in with kik username and password, retrieve user information (such as email, name, etc).
- Fetch chat partners information
- Send text messages to users\groups and listen for incoming messages
- Send and receive 'is-typing' status
- Send and receive read receipts
- Fetch group information (name, participants, etc.)
- Receive media content: camera, gallery, stickets
- Add a kik user as a friend
- Search for groups
- Join a group [Experimental]
Sending multimedia (images, videos) is not suported yet.
If you are on Windows and you are unable to install the lxml pacakge, use the binary installers from PyPi here.