Seeing 'This party is over' on generated hangout links

[sunils34]

Hi there!

We're not receiving valid hangout links with this hangout URL scheme. Not sure if you're seeing this?

https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/bufferapp.com/test-1403789745195

https://www.dropbox.com/s/kw26plvcny5wv8q/Screenshot%202014-06-26%2009.33.35.png

[jjasghar]

Have you attempted to make another on via the hubot script? Sometimes you have to re-run it. (this was with another plugin i used, but hat the same issue)

[adonaldson]

Hi there, I'm also seeing this message.

When I try to make a new hangout by editing the URL with a new hangout name I see the same message - perhaps the URL structure has changed?

[mattfarrugia]

Hi, I'm seeing this too. Does the Google Apps domain have to be a Google Apps for Business domain? ... or is it just a case that Google have changed the URL structure again?

[bsommardahl]

I'm getting the same with a Google Apps for Business domain.

[bsommardahl]

I think the URL is not doing what it is supposed to do. I played with the url that gets generated in my browser and it always results in the same. Now, it's possible that there's some setting in my google apps domain config that I don't know about (if there is, please share!). I also googled around to see if I could find anything talking about using a url to "start" a hangout. The only one I found was https://hangouts.google.com/start which generates a room id and redirects you to the url. So, I'm not sure what to do here. :/

[alindeman]

I haven't been able to reproduce this. At least for the GitHub org, URLs can be automatically generated without a backing calendar event. Anyone know why this differs for others?

[ddollar]

This is happening to me also. Did you ever figure it out?

[rtgibbons]

Posting here since #5 is really just a duplicate.

I'm exploring ways to move forward, so far I have

1. open the https://hangouts.google.com/start url in a headless window and get the final url
2. Use the Calendar API to create an event and get the hangout url of the event. This is implemented in the Hermes plugin https://www.npmjs.org/package/hermes-hangout
3. Have the hubut hangout also be a Google Hangout App that can report back what the hangout URL is.

[alindeman]

@rtgibbons An earlier version of hubot-google-hangouts implements (2). You're welcome to pin to 0.5.1, it should still work just fine. I removed it in 0.6.0 because the simpler URL structure worked for us. I'm really not sure what the difference is :(

[anthonator]

This still doesn't work for me. It just hangs as it's trying to join and eventually fails.