Whatsapp's lawyers will complain. https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI
Best to use a different protocol and avoid whatsapp.
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venomous0x / WhatsAPI
WhatsAPI
Interface to WhatsApp Messenger
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| 2012 | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 2 | 5 |
| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 13 | 2 | 11 |
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##Update: May 2015
Fed up with the f**king legal threats.
This was started late 2011 as a research project about a popular messaging app/protocol, quickly named it WhatsAPI and open-sourced. Since then many people got invloved (in a good way: contributing, and a bad way: copying without giving proper credit, profiting off, etc...).
Among people who were involved: legal firms and counselors, sending all sorts of letters and documents, DMCA, Cease and Desist, informal threats and so on.
So besides having no time or interest for the core project anymore, and not benefiting at all, not from this or from the work derived from it, comes more aggressive letters citing lengthy Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) clauses and requiring compensation among other ridiculous demands and/or threats.
I'm wiping this repository away.
Read the full README on GitHubWhat Hacker News says
23 sourcesIt looks like a tidy application, and I'm assuming it's functional - good job.
You're probably going to need to deal with the WhatsApp legal team very soon. I recall several HN threads discussing various shutdowns of 3rd party WhatsApp-based services. One example which came from a quick search was: https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI
Good luck!
In Show HN: WhatsApp for DesktopIf you're going to archive it, you should grab:
https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI/tree/16a6349a1fbc9e9a...
And all pull requests - add .patch to the URL to pull it out as a diff - see https://api.github.com/repos/venomous0x/WhatsAPI/pulls?state... and
https://api.github.com/repos/venomous0x/WhatsAPI/issues
In “I'm wiping this repository away”Seems they've already tried a DMCA request:
https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI/tree/fd07b49a459cda25...
... and it didn't work, causing only "brief downtime", probably because it didn't actually fall under the DMCA.
In “I'm wiping this repository away”Also, see https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI/tree/16a6349a1fbc9e9a...
He didn't actually even wipe the history.
In “I'm wiping this repository away”WhatsApp complained about users of the API spamming the service; instead of taking the necessary steps to secure their service, they sent lawyers. So they've been dealing with legal threats for a long time.
https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI/issues/83
In “I'm wiping this repository away”Here is a list: https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI/network/members
In “I'm wiping this repository away”The code is still there, just browse code in the latest pull request.
https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI/tree/fd07b49a459cda25...
In “I'm wiping this repository away”It is not like there are no forks https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI/network/members
In “I'm wiping this repository away”I think a renamed fork is (maintained) here https://github.com/mgp25/Chat-API
(it was linked in https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI/issues/1140)
In “I'm wiping this repository away”“I'm wiping this repository away”
485 points · Open discussionFacebook disabled users' accounts for violating WhatsApp TOS 3 years ago
I don't use my FB account anymore and it was disabled 3 weeks ago, it was strange since generally no use = no abuse.
Then my friend's account was also disabled, we both released the inner workings of WA protocol along with API PoC a while ago (https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI) and it got popular, so we suspected that as the only relevant common thing.
Today, Tarek (https://twitter.com/tgalal/status/583508825329819648) who also built unofficial sort of WA clients, confirmed it's the WhatsApp thing.
This makes me think of the rationale of:
1) Disabling someone's account for allegedly violating another service's terms.
2) Three years ago.
3) At time where WhatsApp was an independent company.
4) And whether this practise will expand to Instagram? Parse? future acquisitions?
33 points · Open discussionThere are just too many different proprietary IM protocols, and they are often fast moving targets. You can't keep up with a team of Google engineers tweaking their protocol every day.
Have a look at WhatsApp, there was a bunch of efforts to reverse engineer their protocol, and they ended up non-working, abandoned or C&Ded [0]
[0] https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI/issues/83
In Facebook Messenger XMPP is going awayIf php is your thing, then there's another alternative: https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI
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