BUBubuIIC·Dec 10, 2019
Matrix is the other IM service. This is the tool for getting whatsapp chats into matrix: https://github.com/tulir/mautrix-whatsapp
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A Matrix-WhatsApp puppeting bridge
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5 sourcesthis isn't true, fwiw - there are about 30 matrix bridges, and only one of them (matrix-bifrost) uses libpurple, and only then as a fallback if there isn't a better stack available.
Edit: For instance, one of the best telegram bridges for Matrix is https://github.com/tulir/mautrix-telegram, which uses the 'telethon' Py3 library to connect to telegram.
Conversely, https://github.com/tulir/mautrix-whatsapp is one of the best whatsapp bridges, which uses the go-whatsapp Go whatsapp library to connect. Libpurple is very much the last ditch resort where everything else has failed.
In Free Messaging App for Slack, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram and Morefwiw, a similar project for bridging WhatsApp into Matrix is https://github.com/tulir/mautrix-whatsapp.
In Show HN: Whapp-irc – A simple WhatsApp IRC gatewayThat specific classname didn't change since the beginning of the project, I had a breaking change on WhatsApp's side one time (was several months ago already).
I'm aware of https://github.com/tulir/mautrix-whatsapp which I'm personally interested in, which uses a reverse engineered implementation of the WhatsApp web protocol.
In Show HN: Whapp-irc – A simple WhatsApp IRC gatewayDoes anyone have experience with using Matrix [0] as an alternative to Telegram and Signal?
Maybe even running your own homeserver which stores your history on a server you control and syncs that across all devices?
As far as I saw you can also bridge to other messaging services, even to WhatsApp [1] which is why it might be worth a try.
[0] https://matrix.org/blog/home/
[1] https://github.com/tulir/mautrix-whatsapp
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