Sup for WhatsApp

The project has migrated and is no longer being maintained. Check out this repo for a updated and maintained version of SupForWhatsApp, built on Electron.

Forked from Aluxian's Repo then reworked with some additional features and major fixes.

A Native desktop wrapper for WhatsApp which runs mainly on Windows. Built with NW.js. OSX and Linux builds need help as I'm having trouble compiling on Windows! Get the latest release!

This is a hobby project I'm working on mainly because I found it very troublesome to cycle to the Web WhatsApp tab (and back) frequently. I also wanted some additional features lacking in WebWhatsApp like hotkeys.

####This is NOT affiliated with WhatsApp or Facebook. This is NOT an official product. Read the DISCLAIMER.

Features

Able to hide notification body (Right click in the app and check the option)
Able to cycle through conversations through (Shift) Tab
More convenient to cycle through native windows as compared to cycling through tabs in your browser
All features of Web WhatsApp (since this is a wrapper around it)
Preferences in the right-click context menu (or menu bar for OS X, tray menu for Windows)
Any ideas or requests? submit an issue!

Build

Pre-requisites

# install gulp
npm install -g gulp

# install dependencies
npm install

wine: If you're on OS X/Linux and want to build for Windows, you need Wine installed. Wine is required in order to set the correct icon for the exe. If you don't have Wine, you can comment out the winIco field in gulpfile.
makensis: Required by the pack:win32 task in gulpfile to create the Windows installer.
fpm: Required by the pack:linux{32|64}:deb tasks in gulpfile to create the Linux installers.

Quick install on OS X:

brew install wine makensis
sudo gem install fpm

OS X: pack the app in a .app

gulp pack:osx64

Windows: create the installer

gulp pack:win32

Linux 32/64-bit: pack the app in a .deb (Needs help)

gulp pack:linux{32|64}:deb

The output is in ./dist. Take a look at gulpfile.js for additional tasks.

Note to WhatsApp

This project does not attempt to reverse engineer the WhatsApp API or attempt to reimplement any part of the WhatsApp client. Any communication between the user and WhatsApp servers is handled by WhatsApp Web itself; this is just a native wrapper for WhatsApp Web, more akin to a browser than any WhatsApp software.

Contributions

Contributions are welcome! For feature requests and bug reports please submit an issue.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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