venomous0x/WhatsAPI
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Interface to WhatsApp Messenger
23 mentions on Hacker News by 20 people: 5 stories, 18 comments · first 2012-05-29 · latest 2015-10-21
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Whatsapp's lawyers will complain. https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI Best to use a different protocol and avoid whatsapp.
comment by mkj · 2015-10-21 · in Control your server using Whatsapp -
…shutdowns of 3rd party WhatsApp-based services. One example which came from a quick search was: https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI Good luck!
comment by JonAtkinson · 2015-06-22 · in Show HN: WhatsApp for Desktop -
If 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/pu…
comment by voltagex_ · 2015-05-20 · 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.
comment by 0942v8653 · 2015-05-20 · in “I'm wiping this repository away” -
Also, see https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI/tree/16a6349a1fbc9e9a... He didn't actually even wipe the history.
comment by TheLoneWolfling · 2015-05-20 · in “I'm wiping this repository away” -
…their service, they sent lawyers. So they've been dealing with legal threats for a long time. https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI/issues/83
comment by mratzloff · 2015-05-20 · in “I'm wiping this repository away” -
Here is a list: https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI/network/members
comment by tokenizerrr · 2015-05-20 · 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...
comment by hakanito · 2015-05-20 · in “I'm wiping this repository away” -
It is not like there are no forks https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI/network/members
comment by mahouse · 2015-05-20 · 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 )
comment by throwaway125 · 2015-05-20 · in “I'm wiping this repository away” -
…to reverse engineer their protocol, and they ended up non-working, abandoned or C&Ded [0] [0] https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI/issues/83
comment by ge0rg · 2015-03-26 · in Facebook Messenger XMPP is going away -
If php is your thing, then there's another alternative: https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI
comment by amjd · 2013-12-16 · in Unofficial WhatsApp API -
…in hacking, there are a couple of unofficial APIs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6913300 https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI
comment by amjd · 2013-12-16 · in WhatsApp on your computer: Pidgin plugin -
iPhone Mac address "Wrong Password" explained: https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI/issues/192
comment by Zor · 2012-12-07 · in WhatsApp Hack -
Based off https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI Have you played with the node.js clients?
comment by dutchbrit · 2012-12-07 · in WhatsApp Hack -
Anyone who's interested can still check out the git repository at https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI . They didn't remove the actual commits yet.
comment by ch0wn · 2012-09-25 · in WhatsApp threatens legal action against API developers -
A reference to https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI/ wouldn't hurt you, author.
comment by hubail · 2012-09-06 · in WhatsApp is using your IMEI number as password -
Un-official What's App API for PHP and Python: https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI
comment by thepumpkin1979 · 2012-09-05 · in WhatsApp is using your IMEI number as password