Is there a way to show your hangouts status on your own web page in PHP

Question

I've found tutorial on how to link to a hangout but I want to show people inbound that I'm online with hangouts so they can contact me.

Is there a way to do this?

Answer 1

Ether develop a Hangout Extension that can save your personal PHP link page URL, and "tell it" when you enter a Hangout, or just create the PHP link page that you can go to and provide the link info yourself. I suggest a periodic keep-alive rather than count on Hangouts API telling your page as it closes.

Great info to be found in the Developing with Google+ community, as well as the Getting Started page in Hangouts API documentation.

Hope this helps!