WhatsApp protocol implementation for libpurple (Pidgin)

Ubuntu users can use the Launchpad repository: https://launchpad.net/~whatsapp-purple/+archive/ppa/

Windows users can find a copy at the nightly builds server: http://davidgf.net/nightly/whatsapp-purple/win32/

Just run make (if you have to choose between 32 and 64 bit, run make ARCH=i686 or make ARCH=x86_64). Makefile.mingw is the Makefile for 32-bit Windows.

Check http://davidgf.net/nightly/whatsapp-purple/ for nightly builds ;)

For experimental builds (branch pu) check http://davidgf.net/nightly/whatsapp-purple-experimental/

Your user name is your phone number (including the country code but without any additional leading zeros, e.g. 4917012345678), as for the password there are many ways to get it. You can either sniff it or just ask for a new one. Check these links here:

• https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI#faq
• https://github.com/shirioko/MissVenom
• http://blog.philippheckel.com/2013/07/05/how-to-sniff-the-whatsapp-password-from-your-android-phone-or-iphone/

If you want to register a new WhatsApp account, you can use tools like yowsup or WART:

• https://github.com/tgalal/yowsup
• https://github.com/shirioko/WART

Please, do not contact me by email for this kind of issues, I won't answer your questions. For developing matters you can open an issue, create a pull request or (in case you think it's necessary) email me.

You need to install and enable the Emoji smiley theme. Just copy one of the subdirectories from following Git repositories to $HOME/.purple/smileys/ and enable the newly installed theme in the Pidgin preferences window:

• https://github.com/stv0g/unicode-emoji
• https://github.com/VxJasonxV/emoji-for-pidgin

In order to get a proper backtrace, you can either use your package manager to install a debug package or rebuild the library with debug symbols using make debug.