If you noticed, this forum has “(discontinued)” in its name. Kraken is not in development anymore, so no new gateways would be added to it, unless someone takes over this project and continue development. maybe you should look at switching to Spectrum.
This would be an interesting addition to Spectrum and GoJara/Spark. The project weems to be at a very early state and the statement regarding WhatsAPI is not promising. The German text states that WhatsApp has threatend the dev team of WhatsAPI with legal steps. It looks to me like WhatsApp is not eager to allow other implementations of their chat protocol. If the play cat and mouse with the WhatsAPI developers, we can not ensure a working WhatsApp connectivity.
This scenario was basically the reason why Kraken developement was stoped and we moved to Spectrum.im. The later relies on Pidgin libraries where a large community is supporting the chat protocol development. Long story short: If Pidgin or any other big multi protocol client supports WhatsApp, we may work on integrating WhatsApp.
Just for information, here is a report of another Whatsapp open source dev:
So WhatsApp has sent me their lawyers. …They have demanded I stop distributing products which infringe their TOS and IP on openwhatsapp.org, including Wazapp, OpenWhatsapp for BB10 and Yowsup.
Wow this is quite interesting. Being able to send and receive WA messages from Openfire/Spark trough Spectrum would be really useful. Too bad WhatsApp is aggresively going against this project. Since they began to monetize their app in 2013 they’re quite touchy.
Still, reverse engineering is legal in europe, so they can do little apart of harassing the developers. Unless they change the protocol and close the API, the project will go on.
I guess I’ll have a look at spectrum/pidgin, perhaps someone is going to integrate to code into one of the libraries… .
Sending lawyers… .
F*** WA
I don’t like using WA, but atm, there’s not much to do about it (besides using a real XMPP-account, which most of my contacts don’t have , “… to difficult…” ,"… not as easy as WA … " …
As I am newbie and I am also too late to participate in this discussion but I think you have to do this with this gb whatsapp I was using this gb whatsapp and I also do it which work so well with this app but Because it is a modified version of WhatsApp I don’t want to recommend anyone to use it.
Hello, The transWhat project is a WhatsApp XMPP Gateway based on Spectrum2. The author has released the sources under the GPL on GitHub. It is not directly compatible with the Kraken gateway, but it would be beneficial to have a WhatsApp XMPP transport. The request is for someone capable of adding the transWhat transport to the Kraken gateway.
I’m not sure if the Kraken gateway is still a viable plugin. It might be easier to run the TransWhat component as a standalone product, and make it connect to Openfire as an external component.
You’re right, considering the compatibility and viability of the Kraken gateway is important. Running the TransWhat component as a standalone product and connecting it to Openfire as an external component could indeed be a more feasible approach. This way, you can leverage the functionalities of TransWhat while integrating it with Openfire. It provides flexibility and allows you to utilize the WhatsApp XMPP transport without relying on a potentially outdated or incompatible gateway.