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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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  1. 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
  2. …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
  3. 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”
  4. 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”
  5. 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”
  6. …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”
  7. Here is a list: https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI/network/members
    comment by tokenizerrr · 2015-05-20 · in “I'm wiping this repository away”
  8. 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”
  9. 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”
  10. 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”
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    “I'm wiping this repository away”
    story by vishaltelangre · 2015-05-20 · 187 comments
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    Facebook disabled users' accounts for violating WhatsApp TOS 3 years ago
    story by hubail · 2015-04-02 · 2 comments
  13. …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
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    Unoffical WhatsApp API (PHP)
    story by pearjuice · 2013-12-16 · 0 comments
  15. 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
  16. …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
  17. iPhone Mac address "Wrong Password" explained: https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI/issues/192
    comment by Zor · 2012-12-07 · in WhatsApp Hack
  18. Based off https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI Have you played with the node.js clients?
    comment by dutchbrit · 2012-12-07 · in WhatsApp Hack
  19. 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
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    WhatsAPI taken down
    story by railswarrior · 2012-09-22 · 0 comments
  21. 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
  22. 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
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    WhatsAPI: Python interface to WhatsApp Messenger
    story by hubail · 2012-05-29 · 2 comments