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by josteink 1703 days ago
WA works with a pure go-based bridge. No Android required.

The rest of your comment is true though. Keeping these bridges up 24/7 is quite a bit of work. Most people (even technical ones) probably won’t bother with that.
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your_challenger 1703 days ago
You need WhatsApp to be installed on a real device or a VM for mautrix-whatapp [1] (the bridge) to work. You also need to connect to that real device using WhatsApp web [2].

I know because I've used the bridge.

[1] https://github.com/mautrix/whatsapp [2] https://docs.mau.fi/bridges/go/whatsapp/authentication.html

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lvass 1703 days ago
Which bridge is it? Mautrix/whatsapp does require an Android instance of whatsapp.
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josteink 1702 days ago
Nah. You can pair it up to an real WhatsApp-account using your phone and from there on, it’s go-code only.
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