purple-gowhatsapp VS purple-hangouts

Recently I've been using https://github.com/hoehermann/purple-gowhatsapp for accessing WhatsApp from Pidgin. After a contact sends and deletes some messages, when I connect via that plugin, the deleted messages are delivered to me. This means that WhatsApp didn't actually delete messages, and only caused the official clients to show the messages as deleted. The messages were deleted hours ago, and yet they still got delivered.

This one doesn't, once my phone got dropped in the water and I didn't replace it for a few weeks, and WhatsApp on the computer worked for about three weeks or so.

https://github.com/hoehermann/purple-gowhatsapp with Finch might accomplish that.

You could probably use this Pidgin Plugin on your PC. But i would recommend user "loandowns" suggestion.

I think pidgin has a plugin to work with whatsapp, but I haven't bothered to try it: https://github.com/hoehermann/purple-gowhatsapp

Yes, it is. You're looking for this: https://github.com/hoehermann/purple-gowhatsapp

It has limitations, especially on media.

I'm a fairly accomplished open-source software developer, and I might try to write a Pidgin plugin (à la purple-hangouts, but for “native” GV) to make the desktop experience suck less.

Still working for me, via hangouts.google.com, via Gmail widget, via Pidgin plugin (github.com/EionRobb/purple-hangouts), and via Android Hangouts app (both old and new versions).

Still works well through https://github.com/EionRobb/purple-hangouts. (I'm only using that through bitlbee-purple, not via Pidgin, but that should be largely irrelevant.)