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matterbridge
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matterbridge

bridge between mattermost, IRC, gitter, xmpp, slack, discord, telegram, rocketchat, twitch, ssh-chat, zulip, whatsapp, keybase, matrix, microsoft teams, nextcloud, mumble, vk and more with REST API (mattermost not required!)

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What it is

bridge between mattermost, IRC, gitter, xmpp, slack, discord, telegram, rocketchat, twitch, ssh-chat, zulip, whatsapp, keybase, matrix, microsoft teams, nextcloud, mumble, vk and more with REST API (mattermost not required!)

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Observed mentions: 2016-03-16 22:00:31 UTC to 2024-10-01 15:40:42 UTC.

0369122016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 11 mentions; 0 submissions, 11 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 1 submissions, 6 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 0 submissions, 9 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2024

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20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC11011
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC606
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC716
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC909
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404

From the project README

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matterbridge A simple chat bridge Letting people be where they want to be. Bridges between a growing number of protocols. Click below to demo or join the development chat. Discord | Gitter | IRC | Keybase | Matrix | Mattermost | MSTeams | Rocket.Chat | Slack | Telegram | Twitch | WhatsApp | XMPP | Zulip | And more... Note: Mattermost isn't required to run matterbridge. Table of Contents matterbridge Table of Contents Features Natively supported 3rd party via matterbridge api API Chat with us Screenshots Installing / upgrading Binaries Packages Building Building with whatsapp (beta) multidevice support Configuration Basic configuration Settings Advanced configuration Examples Bridge mattermost (off-topic) - irc (#testing) Bridge slack (#general) - discord (general) Running Docker Systemd Changelog FAQ Related projects Articles / Tutorials Thanks Features Support bridging between any protocols Support multiple gateways(bridges) for your protocols Message edits and deletes Preserves threading when possible Attachment / files handling Username and avatar spoofing Private groups API Natively supported Discord Gitter Harmony IRC Keybase Matrix Mattermost Microsoft Teams Mumble Nextcloud Talk Rocket.chat Slack Ssh-chat Steam Not supported anymore, see here for more info. Telegram Twitch VK WhatsApp Whatsapp legacy is natively supported Whatsapp multidevice beta is natively supported but you need to build yourself, see here XMPP Zulip 3rd party via matterbridge api Delta Chat Minecraft Minecraft Past 3rd party projects Discourse Facebook messenger Facebook messenger Minecraft Reddit MatterAMXX: Counter-Strike, half-life and more Vintage Story Ultima Online Emulator Teamspeak API The API is basic at the moment. More info and examples on the wiki. Used by the projects below. Feel free to make a PR to add your project to this list. MatterLink (Matterbridge link for Minecraft Forge server chat, archived) MatterCraft (Matterbridge link for Minecraft Forge server chat) MatterBukkit (Matterbridge link for Minecraft Bukkit/Spigot server chat) pyCord (crossplatform chatbot) Mattereddit (Reddit chat support) fbridge-asyncio (Facebook messenger support) fbridge (Facebook messenger support) matterbabble (Discourse support) MatterAMXX (Counter-Strike, half-life and more via AMXX mod) Vintage Story ServUO-matterbridge (A matterbridge connector for ServUO servers) ts-matterbridge (Integrate teamspeak chat with matterbridge) beerchat (Matterbridge link for minetest) Chat with us Questions or want to test on your favorite platform? Join below: Discord Gitter IRC Keybase Matrix Mattermost Rocket.Chat Slack Telegram Twitch XMPP (matterbridge@conference.jabber.de) Zulip Screenshots See https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge/wiki Installing / upgrading Binaries Latest stable release v1.26.0 Development releases (follows master) can be downloaded here selecting the latest green build and then artifacts. To install or upgrade just download the latest binary. On *nix platforms you may need to make the binary executable - you can do this by running chmod a+x on the binary (example: chmod a+x matterbridge-1.24.1-linux-64bit). After downloading (and making the binary executable, if necessary), follow the instructions on the howto for a step by step walkthrough for creating your configuration. Packages Overview snap scoop Building Most people just want to use binaries, you can find those here If you really want to build from source, follow these instructions: Go 1.18+ is required. Make sure you have Go properly installed. Building the binary with all the bridges enabled needs about 3GB RAM to compile. You can reduce this memory requirement to 0,5GB RAM by adding the nomsteams tag if you don't need/use the Microsoft Teams bridge. Matterbridge can be build without gcc/c-compiler: If you're running on windows first run set CGO_ENABLED=0 on other platforms you prepend CGO_ENABLED=0 to the go build command. (eg CGO_ENABLED=0 go install github.com/42wim/matterbridge) To install the latest stable run: go install github.com/42wim/matterbridge To install the latest dev run: go install github.com/42wim/matterbridge@master To install the latest stable run without msteams or zulip bridge: go install -tags nomsteams,nozulip github.com/42wim/matterbridge You should now have matterbridge binary in the ~/go/bin directory: $ ls ~/go/bin/ matterbridge Building with whatsapp (beta) multidevice support Because the library we use for Whatsapp multidevice support includes a GPL3 library we can not provide you binaries. (as this would require the Matterbridge to change it license to GPL) Matterbridge can be build without gcc/c-compiler: If you're running on windows first run set CGO_ENABLED=0 on other platforms you prepend CGO_ENABLED=0 to the go build command. (eg CGO_ENABLED=0 go install github.com/42wim/matterbridge) So this means you have to build it yourself using the instructions below: go install -tags whatsappmulti github.com/42wim/matterbridge@master If you're low on memory and don't need msteams: go install -tags nomsteams,whatsappmulti github.com/42wim/matterbridge@master You should now have matterbridge binary in the ~/go/bin directory: $ ls ~/go/bin/ matterbridge Configuration Basic configuration See howto for a step by step walkthrough for creating your configuration. Settings All possible settings for each bridge. Advanced configuration matterbridge.toml.sample for documentation and an example. Examples Bridge mattermost (off-topic) - irc (#testing) [irc] [irc.libera] Server="irc.libera.chat:6667" Nick="yourbotname" [mattermost] [mattermost.work] Server="yourmattermostserver.tld" Team="yourteam" Login="yourlogin" Password="yourpass" PrefixMessagesWithNick=true RemoteNickFormat="[{PROTOCOL}] <{NICK}> " [[gateway]] name="mygateway" enable=true [[gateway.inout]] account="irc.libera" channel="#testing"
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What Hacker News says

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It's not quite federation, but I've been contributing to an amaaaaazing bridge tool called Matterbridge: https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge Works for: Slack, Zulip, Mattermost, IRC, Telegram, Gitter, Rocketchat, XMPP, Steam, Twitch, Riot, and some others. Some of the nifty things it supports (to various degrees): - rethreading of Slack messages between instances. (future) interop with Mattermost possible. - edits and deletions going through most platforms. - relaying of "user is typing" messages on Slack. (future) interop with Mattermost possible. - (future) hack to relay emoji reactions via editting a "prosthetic attachment" in Slack. - sync'ing channel topics. - (future) still not generalized, but on a local branch, I've been using an option to set a channel with a language, and have all incoming messages translate via Google Transla
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te. This last feature I'm pretty excited about. The goal is to allow anyone who finds themselves interested in #un-projet (that's french) to simply create #un-projet-en, and have everything auto-translated to Ye Olde English. If people in #un-projet don't understand your english replies to their french nonsense (ha!), they can create #un-projet-fr and have all your english belligerence translated into their One True Glorious Language. As stated, this allows bridging between many different services. It's config is via toml file, and not a UI, but I am excited to later build that out. I'm particularly excited to explore how public chat gateways could be offered as a community service, kinda like TravisCI. Like imagine if someone could send you a link, as a member of a Slack or Mattermost team, and logging in would allow you to join a giant multi-team/multi-platform gateway that others were already using. I feel that this could help un-silo us until we all figure out the one true protocol ;)
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We've built Relay chat (http://relay-chat.com)! And I believe it addresses some of these concerns. Basically, it is hosted mattermost. We've written our story of how we created Relay by escaping slack: https://medium.com/@deobald/we-created-relay-by-escaping-sla.... There are bux fixes, and feature improvements pouring into mattermost from around the world, and we get them in. We're building integrations, bridging services and other slack features (which will also be open source) into it on high priority. There's https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge, which provides bridges from mattermost/relay to practically all other messaging platforms out there including IRC, Telegram, Gitter, etc. We're building a SaSS for this too. Disclaimer: I'm a part of the Relay team.
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