
We'll share more specific guidance on what steps you can take when we begin the transition process. To ensure a smooth transition, we will help automatically migrate your Hangouts conversations, along with contacts and saved history. Chat includes familiar Hangouts features like direct and group messaging, with helpful additions like send to inbox, faster search, emoji reactions and suggested replies. This will give you a webhook URL to use in your python script. Enter a name and an optional avatar for your bot, and press SAVE.
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Starting in the first half of 2021, everyone can begin upgrading from Hangouts to Chat. Next year, Chat will become available as a free serviceboth in the integrated experience in Gmail and the Chat standalone app. Go to the room to which you wish to send a message at and from the dropdown menu next to the rooms name, select Manage Webhooks. In addition, Chat features the same strong phishing protections we built in Gmail, so if a link is sent to you via Chat, it will be checked against real-time data from Safe Browsing and flagged if it’s found to be malicious.

With Chat, you can more easily plan with others on goals and similar interests, share and collaborate on files, and assign tasks to help keep everyone on the same page. Users will see an in-product notice at least a month before Hangouts on the web starts redirecting to Chat on the web.

While we encourage everyone to make the switch to Chat, Hangouts on the web will continue to be available until later this year. Next year, Chat will become available as a free service-both in the integrated experience in Gmail and the Chat standalone app. In July, people who use Hangouts in Gmail on the web will be upgraded to Chat in Gmail. Google Chat for everyone coming next year
