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I thought WhatsApp banned thirdparty apps some time ago? How does this work exactly?

• episteme 6y ago
  Could be a wrapper around WhatsApp Web.
  • gkfasdfasdf 6y ago
    I'm sure it could be done that way, but if it violates TOS then I would be wary that the bridge will be unreliable.
    • hansdieter1337 6y ago
      I had that thought, too. That’s the reason that stopped me from implementing sth like that. I think a definitive solution to a cat-and-mice game would be an automated reverse-engineering of the chat apps.
    • amelius 6y ago
      YouTube-DL is successful despite it violating the ToS.
  • jcul 6y ago
    It is, the matrix WhatsApp bridge uses a reverse engineered WhatsApp web library. > A Matrix-WhatsApp puppeting bridge. Written in Go using the Rhymen/go-whatsapp implementation of the sigalor/whatsapp-web-reveng project. https://matrix.org/docs/projects/bridge/mautrix-whatsapp https://matrix.org/docs/projects/bridge/mautrix-whatsapp
  • GekkePrutser 6y ago
    That's exactly what it does!