Other bridges ?

[42wim]

If anyone wants to contribute code to support for a new bridge, feel free to open an issue about this.
I'll be glad to help you where possible.

Bridges supported

• Mattermost
• IRC
• Gitter
• Xmpp
• Slack
• Discord
• Hipchat (cheated by using xmpp ;-)
• Telegram
• Rocket.Chat
• Matrix
• sshchat
• Twitch (is just irc, see https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge/wiki/Section-Twitch-(basic))
• Zulip
• Whatsapp - thanks to @KrzysztofMadejski
• Keybase - thanks to @hyperobject
• msteams (Microsoft Teams)
• Nextcloud Talk - thanks to @gary-kim
• Mumble - thanks to @s3lph
• vk - thanks to @ivanik7
• Harmony - thanks to @pontaoski

Not supported anymore

• Steam: Upstream library has no support for steam chat anymore. See here for more info.

3rd party via matterbridge API

• Minecraft
• Facebook Messenger
• Reddit
• Discourse
• Counter-Strike, half-life and more

Not going to be implemented by me, but PR's welcome

• Line - too much red tape,EULA for a developer. PR welcome
• Let's chat - can be used with XMPP bridge (https://github.com/sdelements/lets-chat/wiki/XMPP)
• Glip - not possible, no API ?
• Wechat - too much red tape, too little english. PR welcome
• Tox - no pure go library. PR welcome
• Hangouts - dirty hack (Hangish is identified as iOS device with full access in google security checkup rogora/hangish#28). Couldn't get it to work. PR welcome
• signal - no golang library. PR welcome
  • possibly https://github.com/nanu-c/textsecure/ or https://github.com/RadicalApp/libsignal-protocol-go
• wire - no golang library. PR welcome
• mixer.com - no golang library. PR welcome
• deltachat - PR welcome
• Treema - PR welcome
  • possibly https://github.com/o3ma/o3
• Skype - PR welcome
• Viber - PR welcome
  • works with webhook / callbacks. No streaming API. Shouldn't be hard.
  • possible libraries to use:
    • https://github.com/mileusna/viber
    • https://github.com/strongo/bots-api-viber
• groupme - PR welcome
  • possible library to use: https://github.com/densestvoid/groupme
• Hangouts chat (go library available, but not a free service $$) Hangouts Chat support #409
• Cisco WebEx teams: looks easy, https://github.com/jbogarin/go-cisco-webex-teams, but caveats Add Cisco Teams support #660

Obsolete

• stride (https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/go-stride)

[stp-ip]

Currently supported: IRC, mattermost, gitter, xmpp
Next in line: slack
To be considered: whatsapp, fb messenger, mail

[stp-ip]

Sidenote:
Awesome project and thanks for taking the time and publishing it openly.

[tobru]

Support for Rocket.Chat would be great. See https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat

[42wim]

Thanks for the feedback.
I'm also trying to make the config more flexible to combine multiple bridges in a gateway, more or less like the example in issue #9

Any comments ?

[Bridge "mattermost1"]
protocol=mattermost
..mattermostoptions..

[Bridge "irc1"]
protocol=irc
..ircoptions..

[Bridge "irc2"]
protocol=irc
..ircoptions..

[Bridge "gitter1"]
protocol=gitter
..gitteroptions..

[Channel "test"]
mattermost="testing"
irc="#test"

[Channel "stuff"]
mattermost="general"
irc="#stuff"
gitter="42wim/stuff"

[Gateway "gateway1"]
bridge=mattermost1
bridge=irc1
channel=test
enable

[Gateway "test2"]
bridge=mattermost1
bridge=irc2
bridge=gitter1
channel=stuff
enable

[jleclanche]

Would like to suggest discord support :) reactiflux/discord-irc#100

[42wim]

@jleclanche well, discord support has just been added in current master ;-)
Also decided to use your TOML configuration file because gcfg was not expressive enough.

[lagleki]

would like Telegram https://github.com/FruitieX/teleirc

[42wim]

@lagleki unfortunately telegram needs a phone-number to join (and I'm not willing to give mine). On the other hand the bot API is implemented in Go, so it would be quite easy to add it.

If you're willing to be my test-user I can try to add it.

[thybag]

Unsure how easy it'd be to add, but being able to bridge to hipchat would be a nice to have.

[jlsjonas]

@42wim I'll gladly offer myself for that (telegram), might even (if I find enough spare time) send a PR

[42wim]

@jlsjonas thanks! Please let me know the results in #80

[scanline77]

Would be really nice to see mattermost to Skype group chat. Sameroom.io offers this as service so I imagine they are using Microsoft's API. This would be worth making a donation on its own.

[42wim]

@tobru rocket.chat support got just added, feedback welcome :-)

[42wim]

@pgladwin seems that there's a rest API for skype on https://docs.botframework.com/en-us/skype/chat/
That's good news, no .net SDK needed.

[ananace]

Could a possible additional bridge to add be Matrix?

There are several already existing bridges and an Application Service API spec. (Though admittedly it's still marked as unstable)

[42wim]

@Ace13 matrix support added in master :-)
For channel names you'll have to use the room internal ID (looks like !QJFqjsGJwmQzbuBfff:matrix.org)
You'll also need a dedicated bot user to avoid loops.

So for example

[matrix.test]
Server="https://yourhomeserver" (e.g. https://matrix.org)
Login="yourlogin"
Password="yourpass"

[[gateway]]
  enable=true
  [[gateway.inout]]
  account="matrix.test"
  channel="!QJFqjsGJwmQzbuBfff:matrix.org"

 [[gateway.inout]]
 ..your other bridges ..

[42wim]

Got a question for Let's chat support (https://github.com/sdelements/lets-chat) but it seems quite dead to me. If you want this bridge added, please add the 👍 to this message.

[tomoeuehara]

Line. It already has an API support in Go language too! 😉
https://devdocs.line.me/en/?go#messaging-api

[42wim]

@tomoeuehara looks interesting, but signup unfortunately only works with phonenumber.

I'm willing to accept PR's for this protocol, or if someone sends me a test login/password (DM @42wim on twitter) I can take a look myself.

[tomoeuehara]

@42wim DM sent :D

[dantrevino]

If you do something like this:
[Channel "stuff"]
mattermost="general"
irc="#stuff"
gitter="42wim/stuff"

How will you know where your reply is going? If someone pings me on irc #stuff i dont want my replies going to gitter.

[42wim]

@dantrevino That example was an old proposal, like you say it has some issues.

An example of the current configuration can be found in the README: https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge/#examples or sample config
https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge/blob/master/matterbridge.toml.simple

[Tck13]

Dear @42wim,

Your tube system looks exact what we need, only is the integration with skype something we would like to see.

It's on your list at the top, so can you give something of an status? Does it comes in an few days, weeks, months or was it only an idea and have you no plans to relize this idea?

[42wim]

hi @Tck13

Thank you for your interest.

Skype doesn't have a go library, so I'll need to implement a lot myself (or wait until such a library pops up).
Which only could happen when I have a lot of free time, maybe july/august.

So sorry, but unless someone else implements it, it won't be available soon. (and I don't make any promises for july/august :-)

[nickolasclarke]

@42wim Wechat Enterprise 企业微信 would be excellent! Most of these services are blocked and/or unusable here in China for various reasons, but wechat Enterprise is severely lacking. I was hoping to write a bridge between our slack org and wechat so that our foreign teams can use slack and our chinese teams can use wechat, but then I found this excellent project. Unfortunately I have no Go experience.

There does seem to be two different libraries, (https://github.com/chanxuehong/wechat.v2/ and https://github.com/chanxuehong/wechat) but my understanding of Go and chinese is too poor to really dig in and try to figure it out myself. However, I do know that Wechat enterprise 企业微信 has a robust API, with full support for incoming and outgoing webhooks:

http://qydev.weixin.qq.com/wiki/index.php?title=%E9%A6%96%E9%A1%B5

A long shot, but let me know what you think.

[42wim]

@nickolasclarke Thanks for the suggestion.

I see a couple of issues unfortunately.

1. documentation is too much chinese for me.
2. it needs a signup with a mobile phone. (I don't want to use this kind of service, so I can't test it)
3. wechat seems to have a lot of red tape for creating and testing accounts.

So this is not something I'm going to implement, but I'm happy to accept code from someone for who those 3 things aren't an issue.

[TomTheDragon]

How about Steam and TOX support?

I am not sure if they would work but thats the two go-libs i found so far:
Steam --> https://github.com/Philipp15b/go-steam
TOX --> https://github.com/kitech/go-toxcore

[TobjasR]

It seems like official API support for Threema will stay paid service only. But they recently published the Threema-web communication protocol, so a bridge use similar to how it is currently done with WhatsApp seems feasible: https://github.com/threema-ch/app-remote-protocol

any news about the Threema WebClient API thing? :)

[gabrc52]

@petermolnar how do we use your bridge? what still needs to be worked on?

Edit: after fiddling around with it, I've gotten the bridge to work and send and receive messages.

1. You need to setup signald following instructions from https://signald.org/articles/getting-started/
2. Get the Signal group ID by running signaldctl groups list
3. Add to the config:

[signald.num]
Number="+1xxxxxxxxxx"
UnixSocket="/run/user/1000/signald/signald.sock"
RemoteNickFormat="[{NICK}] "

and in the gatweay:

[[gateway.inout]]
account="signald.num"
channel="[channel from step 2]"

As for what needs to be worked on, images/attachments don't work, and instead of display name, the phone number appears in the other messaging apps.

However, I've found an issue with WhatsApp: it gives the following error [0001] WARN whatsapp: [Connect:bridge/whatsapp/whatsapp.go:78] failed to restore session: error decoding login connResp: json: cannot unmarshal array into Go value of type map[string]interface {}. I don't know if it's caused by the environment or version of Go or if any change you made broke WhatsApp or if its behind in commits such that WhatsApp no longer works in the old version it's forked from. I tried go build then ./matterbridge and go run . to run.

[gabrc52]

For Signal, there was a lot of talk about Go and license limitations. However, with the matterbridge API (https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge/wiki/API), the Signal bridge could be a standalone program bridged through the API, and both should not be a constraint.

[maxxer]

Zammad?

A quick search on Github returned this go library for Zammad

[poVoq]

https://github.com/tulir/whatsmeow

Will probably become useful soonish.

[glyh]

For QQ, there is MiraiGo.
For Wechat, there is wechat-go, but the author is not updating it anymore because he's account get banned by tencent because of the repo.

[RhinosF1]

For QQ, there is MiraiGo.
For Wechat, there is wechat-go, but the author is not updating it anymore because he's account get banned by tencent because of the repo.

We use matterbridge for @miraheze projects and got asked if we could support QQ

[poVoq]

New Golang Threema bot library: https://github.com/karalabe/go-threema

[alerque]

It might be time to revisit Signal. The original issue post above mentions one library possibility but it was underdeveloped and did not have a compatible license. Since then both of those points have changed somewhat:

1. An alternative approach to licensing issues was taken already by this project for the whatsappmulti support which uses a GPL3 library and just isn't included in the binary release.
2. There are two active forks of the Go library for Signal, crossie's and tulir's. Most of the work was done in the former, the latter is by the author of the whatsappmulti library being used by this project and specifically tuned for use behind the scenes on Whatsapp (which still uses the Signal protocol).

All this to to say the stage appears to be clear if somebody wanted to jump in and contribute this. I believe there would be some work to wrap the signal protocol library into something that would specifically access the Signal Inc. service and facilitate device registration and such, but there don't seem to be any major roadblocks to it being possible.

[42wim]

@alerque Yes indeed, we can do it the same way as with whatsapp multidevice.
As usual, I'm open to PR's to support this.

[Bluscream]

Threema support would be awesome.

Could be a start, but apparently something changed in Threema and it stopped working:
https://github.com/genofire/thrempp

You may want to check if the following Go implementation works for matterbridge:

Open-source implementation of the Threema protocol in Go. [4] https://github.com/o3ma/o3

It might also be worth to take a look at OpenMittsu [1]

[1] https://github.com/blizzard4591/openMittsu

adding a link to the Threema protocol analysis by Jan Ahrens [3] https://blog.jan-ahrens.eu/2014/03/22/threema-protocol-analysis.html

and/or the official Threema API Gateway [2] which would incur costs of CHF 0,02/message shrug this feels like SMS cost pitfalls are back for messengers.

[2] https://gateway.threema.ch/en

i agree. Threema support would finally make matterbridge useful for me once again.

[poVoq]

The older Discouse Bubble chat integration is not maintained and depreciated these days, but the Discourse team is working on a first party chat system right inside Discourse:
https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-discourse-chat-beta/210734
https://github.com/discourse/discourse-chat

Would be probably cool to have support for that in Matterbridge.

[tuxmartin]

Hi, it would be great to have support for https://wire.com/ <---> Rocket.Chat integration.

I like to send some money to this integration.

[troilus]

Yes, RSS is good idea - poll RSS feed and post new articles to IM channels. Matrix.org IM have this feature via bot https://github.com/matrix-org/go-neb#user-content-rss-bot

Please add RSS support, poll RSS feed and post new articles.

[poVoq]

Looks like the new Discourse chat feature is nearing a release: https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-chat/230881

[rasos]

Bridge to the chat of a BigBlueButton video conferencing room. A PoC for bridging to Matrix is now available https://git.fairkom.net/chat/bbb-chat-bridge

[poVoq]

https://blog.discourse.org/2022/08/discourse-chat-is-now-available-try-it-out-today/

It supports incoming webhooks, so it could probably work similar to Slack/Discord etc.

Edit: incoming webhooks are Slack-like so that should be very easy to add: https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-chat/230881

There is also a golang lib: https://github.com/FrenchBen/godisco
But support for the chat needs to be probably added first for using it as a bot to read messages.

[poVoq]

No idea if that will work, but there is a tencentqq Golang lib:

https://github.com/Mrs4s/MiraiGo

(Found via: https://gitlab.com/xiayesuifeng/matrix-tencentqq-bridge )

[Bluscream]

Wouldnt it be easier to send your messages directly to the CCP

[poVoq]

As opposed to sending them directly to the NSA as with many of the currently supported services? 😅

[Pantyhose-X]

Add bridge

cabal p2p/decentralized chat. No server exists

[Mikaela]

Syncplay gateway support would be lovely. Syncplay/syncplay#574 has some links on the protocol details in the end of the original post.

[adbenitez]

• deltachat - PR welcome

hi @42wim, for deltachat there is a new WIP library at: https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-rpc-client-go

I am really loving matterbridge and will probably play with it but I am really new to Golang so not sure if I will be able to make something worthy of a PR, but maybe at least some simple 3rd party API client

[Mikaela]

SimpleX is an privacy first decentralised messenger that doesn't even have user IDs and which I have been enjoying on iOS and Android. I would like to Matterbridge it in the future. However:

• They talk of groups v2 and their roadmap includes public groups for the future so it's not yet the time.
  • https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat/blob/stable/README.md#roadmap
• They don't yet even have a desktop client although I am not sure if this would particularly affect Matterbridgeability, Standalone desktop client simplex-chat/simplex-chat#2281
• Everything currently maintained in their GitHub is Haskell, while I understand Matterbridge appreciates Go libraries?
  • https://github.com/simplex-chat

[cooljeanius]

groupme - PR welcome

• possible library to use: densestvoid/groupme

I'm interested in this; any pointers on how one might get started with it?

[Bluscream]

Sam Porter Bridges

[Sh4d0wless]

nobody work with Viber ?

[Lippiece]

I would very much love to see Simplex in the list.