I didn't manage to find a proper, detailed (and up-to-date) reverse-engineerment
of Omegle's text chat protocol on the interwebs, so here, have one!
The responses are beautified and the query strings split up and URI-decoded for
readability.
Note that "query string" refers to parameters encoded into the URL and
"form data" to parameters in the request body, which don't have to be encoded.
TODO:
- Find out how college authorization works
- Find out how WebRTC video streaming works
- Generally phrase things better
Used Request Headers:
Accept: application/json
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Language: en-US;q=0.6,en;q=0.4
Connection: keep-alive
DNT: 1
Host: front9.omegle.com
Origin: http://www.omegle.com
Referer: http://www.omegle.com/
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/37.0.2062.94 Safari/537.36
Pro-Tip: Fetch this first and then use one of the servers listed for future connections. You can just connect to the main server here.
GET http://[server].omegle.com/status
Query String:
nocache = 0.4695589093025774(optional, random nonce to prevent cached responses from being sent)randid = CHPZGFFW(optional, see section "Start")
Response:
{
"count": 20840, (connection count, people say it's faked)
"force_unmon": true, (see section "Getting b&")
"antinudeservers": [
"waw3.omegle.com", "waw2.omegle.com", "waw1.omegle.com"
],
"antinudepercent": 1.0,
"spyQueueTime": 0.0, (if spyQueueTime is larger, there are more spies than spyees online, which the client uses to suggest a mode)
"spyeeQueueTime": 2.173300027847,
"timestamp": 1409233880.7561221,
"servers": [
"front5.omegle.com", "front1.omegle.com", "front2.omegle.com",
"front9.omegle.com", "front6.omegle.com", "front7.omegle.com",
"front8.omegle.com", "front4.omegle.com", "front3.omegle.com"
]
}
This actually starts the chat and gets us our client ID. If you want to start
a question/spy chat, send wantsspy = 1 for spyee mode and ask = blah for
spyer mode.
POST http://[server].omegle.com/start
Query String:
rcs = 1firstevents = 1m = 1(imitate a mobile connection, shouldn't really matter)lang = en(two-char language code)randid = CHPZGFFW(this is really just a random string containing 2-9 and A-Z)spid =(some kind of ID from Adobe Stratus, never used though)topics = ["asdf", "test", ...](optional, for default mode)wantsspy = 1(for spyee mode)ask = blah question?(for spyer mode)cansavequestion = 1(Omegle may reuse your question)group = unmon(join the unmonitored section instead)
Response:
{
"events": [
...see section "Events"...
],
"clientID": "central2:k0m4akq5ry4ytvklsrs2jmtsjkpbkh" (needed for all subsequent requests)
}
This one uses long polling, which means that the server will be blocking the connection until an event happens. You can handle this with some async magic and long timeouts.
POST http://[server].omegle.com/events
Form Data:
id = central2:k0m4akq5ry4ytvklsrs2jmtsjkpbkh
Response:
[
[...see below...], ...
]
["waiting"](the server is searching for strangers)["connected"](you can start sending messages now)["statusInfo", {...stripped...}](see section "Status")
["commonLikes", ["asdf", "test", ...]](the shared topics from the ones you've passed)["serverMessage", "blah"](most likelyYou both speak the same language.)["recaptchaRequired", "[challenge]"](see section "ReCAPTCHAs")["recaptchaRejected", "[challenge]"]["identDigests", "blah,blah,blah"](probably just used for sharing logs)
["error", "blah blah error text!"](general error message)["connectionDied"](some technical error)["antinudeBanned"](see section "Getting b8")
["typing"](the stranger started typing)["stoppedTyping"](...stopped typing)["gotMessage", "blah"](...sent a message)["strangerDisconnected"](...decided to disconnect)
["question", "blah?"](the question you'll discuss with the stranger)
["question", "blah question?"](your question)["spyTyping", "Stranger <1/2>"](Stranger 1/2 started typing)["spyStoppedTyping", "Stranger <1/2>"](...stopped typing)["spyMessage", "Stranger <1/2>", "blah"](...sent a message)["spyDisconnected", "Stranger <1/2>"](...decided to disconnect)
I'm not sure about the Unicode support, but it should work in most cases.
POST http://[server].omegle.com/send
Form Data:
msg = lolid = central2:k0m4akq5ry4ytvklsrs2jmtsjkpbkh
Response:
win
The server may detect clients that don't send these.
POST http://[server].omegle.com/typing POST http://[server].omegle.com/stoppedtyping`
Form Data:
id = central2:k0m4akq5ry4ytvklsrs2jmtsjkpbkh
Response:
win
If you've passed topics to /start, the server will send the waiting event
and then search for people with the same topics until this gets posted.
Use this to stop the running search, ignore the topics and continue with connecting.
POST http://[server].omegle.com/stoplookingforcommonlikes
Form Data:
id = central2:k0m4akq5ry4ytvklsrs2jmtsjkpbkh
Response:
win
Simple as that. Always use this to end sessions gracefully, unless noted beneath events.
POST http://[server].omegle.com/disconnect
Form Data:
id = central2:k0m4akq5ry4ytvklsrs2jmtsjkpbkh
Response:
win
If you run into an recaptchaRequired event, you must prove that you're a
human by fetching the captcha using the URL-encoded passed code from
http://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/image?c=[challenge] and sending the answer
like this. Note that I haven't tried this yet.
POST http://[server].omegle.com/recaptcha
Form Data:
id = central2:k0m4akq5ry4ytvklsrs2jmtsjkpbkhchallenge = [challenge]response = [answer]
If you got an antinudeBanned event, chances are that the moderators banned you
from the monitored section for "bad behaviour". This also applies if the server
status object (see section "Status") has force_unmon set as true. You can
retry by passing group = unmon to /start. That won't work if you got your IP
banned because of too rapid connecting or advertising, though.
To upload your logs to Omegles server, use this.
Pro-Tip: You can actually pass any arbitrary text as the log (note the double
brackets though). The first item is always the header, ("You're chatting with a
random stranger on Omegle!") and the last the footer ("You have disconnected.").
If the second item is "Question to discuss:", it will be styled with the third
item to resemble the question box on the web client. Lines starting with "You:"
and "Stranger:" will be coloured blue/red.
POST http://logs.omegle.com/generate
Form Data:
logs = [["blah",...]](JSON table of the plaintext chat, split in lines)randid = CHPZGFFW(Your random ID)topics = ["asdf", "test", ...](optional, the shared topics)identdigests = blah,blah,blah(the most recent data from theidentDigestsevent)host = 1
Response: 302 Found, the Location header contains the log link.
good guide!