• It is not very beginner friendly. As in those people that most need a WhatsApp bridge might not have any way of using it. I needed something I could run in a terminal, at least. And use 1 standard matrix account. ↩ Reply

• It perhaps makes the bridging a bit too seamless. As in, it won't force people to move away from WhatsApp. Which is the entire goal of this operation. ↩ Reply

import simplematrixbotlib as botlib

creds = botlib.Creds("https://home.server", "echo_bot", "pass")
bot = botlib.Bot(creds)
PREFIX = '!'

@bot.listener.on_message_event
async def echo(room, message):
    match = botlib.MessageMatch(room, message, bot, PREFIX)

    if match.is_not_from_this_bot() and match.prefix() and match.command("echo"):

        await bot.api.send_text_message(
            room.room_id, " ".join(arg for arg in match.args())
            )

bot.run()

@bot.listener.on_startup
async def on_startup_setuper(stuff):

    if not config.get("swl"):
        config["swl"] = True

        print("\n\nStarting WhatsApp to Matrix thread!!!\n\n")
        
        # THIS IS THE MAGIC SAUSE!!!
        asyncio.ensure_future(whatsapp_loop())

print("\n\nStarting WhatsApp to Matrix thread!!!\n\n")

• Make sure that it knows to restart itself if the@bot.listener.on_startup doesn't fire in say a minute after starting the bot. ↩ Reply

• Implement some sort of auto-restart on failure. So if there is a bug somewhere it won't require me to manually restart it all the time. ↩ Reply

• Implement forwarding media files. ↩ Reply