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Here's a tutorial about using force/torque sensors in gazebo.

The tutorial shows how to get data from a gazebo topic. You'll want a gazebo plugin that publishes force/torque data to a ROS topic instead which is what the plugin you linked does.

It might help to read

An overview of ROS integration with Gazebo
A tutorial about writing a gazebo to ROS plugin

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