Despite the name, its not exactly a "bridge". It forwards messages from WhatsApp to Telegram and you can reply to them from Telegram.
This project is in no way affiliated with WhatsApp or Telegram. Using this can also lead to your account getting banned by WhatsApp so use at your own risk.
- Can bridge messages from WhatsApp to Telegram
- All messages from various chats (WhatsApp) are sent to different topics withing the same target chat (Telegram)
- By default all the statuses are bridged, you can specify which contacts' statuses not to bridge
- Can reply to forwarded messages from Telegram
- Can tag all people using @all or @everyone. Others can also use this in group chats which you specify in configuration file
- Can react to messages by replying with desired emoji
- Supports static stickers from both ends
- Can send Animated (TGS) stickers from Telegram
- Animated stickers are not supported from WhatsApp
- Document naming is messed up and not consistent on Telegram, have to find a way to always send sane names
PRs are welcome :)
- Make a supergroup with topics enabled
- Add your bot in the group, make it an admin with permissions to
Manage topics - Install
git,gccandgolangon your system - Clone this repository in
$GOPATH/srcor just~/go/src - Navigate into the cloned directory
- Run
go build - Copy
sample_config.yamltoconfig.yamland fill the values, there are comments to help you. - Execute the binary by running
./watgbridge - On first run, it will show QR code for logging into WhatsApp that can by scanned by the WhatsApp app in
Linked devices - It is recommended to restart the bot after every few hours becuase WhatsApp likes to disconnect a lot. So a Systemd service file has been provided. Edit the
UserandExecStartaccording to your setup:- If you do not have local bot API server, remove
tgbotapi.servicefrom theAfterkey inUnitsection. - This service file will restart the bot every 24 hours
- If you do not have local bot API server, remove