matterbridge

A simple chat bridge
Letting people be where they want to be.
_{Bridges between a growing number of protocols. Click below to demo or join the development chat.}

Discord | Gitter | IRC | Keybase | Matrix | Mattermost | MSTeams | Rocket.Chat | Slack | Telegram | Twitch | WhatsApp | XMPP | Zulip | And more...

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Note: Mattermost isn't required to run matterbridge.

Table of Contents

• matterbridge
• Table of Contents
  • Features
    • Natively supported
    • 3rd party via matterbridge api
    • API
  • Chat with us
  • Screenshots
  • Installing / upgrading
    • Binaries
    • Packages
  • Building
  • Configuration
    • Basic configuration
    • Settings
    • Advanced configuration
    • Examples
      • Bridge mattermost (off-topic) - irc (#testing)
      • Bridge slack (#general) - discord (general)
  • Running
    • Docker
  • Changelog
  • FAQ
  • Related projects
  • Articles
  • Thanks

Features

• Support bridging between any protocols
• Support multiple gateways(bridges) for your protocols
• Message edits and deletes
• Preserves threading when possible
• Attachment / files handling
• Username and avatar spoofing
• Private groups
• API

Natively supported

• Discord
• Gitter
• IRC
• Keybase
• Matrix
• Mattermost 4.x, 5.x
• Microsoft Teams
• Nextcloud Talk
• Rocket.chat
• Slack
• Ssh-chat
• Steam
• Telegram
• Twitch
• WhatsApp
• XMPP
• Zulip

3rd party via matterbridge api

• Discourse
• Facebook messenger
• Minecraft
• Reddit
• Counter-Strike, half-life and more
• MatterAMXX

API

The API is basic at the moment. More info and examples on the wiki.

Used by the projects below. Feel free to make a PR to add your project to this list.

• MatterLink (Matterbridge link for Minecraft Server chat)
• pyCord (crossplatform chatbot)
• Mattereddit (Reddit chat support)
• fbridge (Facebook messenger support)
• matterbabble (Discourse support)
• MatterAMXX (Counter-Strike, half-life and more via AMXX mod)

Chat with us

Questions or want to test on your favorite platform? Join below:

• Discord
• Gitter
• IRC
• Keybase
• Matrix
• Mattermost
• Rocket.Chat
• Slack
• Telegram
• Twitch
• XMPP (matterbridge@conference.jabber.de)
• Zulip

Screenshots

See https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge/wiki

Installing / upgrading

Binaries

• Latest stable release v1.18.0
• Development releases (follows master) can be downloaded here selecting the latest green build and then artifacts.

To install or upgrade just download the latest binary and follow the instructions on the howto for a step by step walkthrough for creating your configuration.

Packages

• Overview
• snap

Building

Most people just want to use binaries, you can find those here

If you really want to build from source, follow these instructions: Go 1.12+ is required. Make sure you have Go properly installed.

go get github.com/42wim/matterbridge

You should now have matterbridge binary in the ~/go/bin directory:

$ ls ~/go/bin/
matterbridge

Configuration

Basic configuration

See howto for a step by step walkthrough for creating your configuration.

Settings

All possible settings for each bridge.

Advanced configuration

• matterbridge.toml.sample for documentation and an example.

Examples

Bridge mattermost (off-topic) - irc (#testing)

[irc]
    [irc.freenode]
    Server="irc.freenode.net:6667"
    Nick="yourbotname"

[mattermost]
    [mattermost.work]
    Server="yourmattermostserver.tld"
    Team="yourteam"
    Login="yourlogin"
    Password="yourpass"
    PrefixMessagesWithNick=true
    RemoteNickFormat="[{PROTOCOL}] <{NICK}> "

[[gateway]]
name="mygateway"
enable=true
    [[gateway.inout]]
    account="irc.freenode"
    channel="#testing"

    [[gateway.inout]]
    account="mattermost.work"
    channel="off-topic"

Bridge slack (#general) - discord (general)

[slack]
[slack.test]
Token="yourslacktoken"
PrefixMessagesWithNick=true

[discord]
[discord.test]
Token="yourdiscordtoken"
Server="yourdiscordservername"

[general]
RemoteNickFormat="[{PROTOCOL}/{BRIDGE}] <{NICK}> "

[[gateway]]
    name = "mygateway"
    enable=true

    [[gateway.inout]]
    account = "discord.test"
    channel="general"

    [[gateway.inout]]
    account ="slack.test"
    channel = "general"

Running

See howto for a step by step walkthrough for creating your configuration.

Usage of ./matterbridge:
  -conf string
        config file (default "matterbridge.toml")
  -debug
        enable debug
  -gops
        enable gops agent
  -version
        show version

Docker

Please take a look at the Docker Wiki page for more information.

Changelog

See changelog.md

FAQ

See FAQ

Related projects

• jwflory/ansible-role-matterbridge (Ansible role to simplify deploying Matterbridge)
• matterbridge autoconfig
• matterbridge config viewer
• matterbridge-heroku
• mattereddit
• matterlink
• mattermost-plugin - Run matterbridge as a plugin in mattermost
• pyCord (crossplatform chatbot)
• fbridge (Facebook messenger support)
• isla (Bot for Discord-Telegram groups used alongside matterbridge)
• matterbabble (Connect Discourse threads to Matterbridge)

Articles

• matterbridge on kubernetes
• https://mattermost.com/blog/connect-irc-to-mattermost/
• https://blog.valvin.fr/2016/09/17/mattermost-et-un-channel-irc-cest-possible/
• https://blog.brightscout.com/top-10-mattermost-integrations/
• http://bencey.co.nz/2018/09/17/bridge/
• https://www.algoo.fr/blog/2018/01/19/recouvrez-votre-liberte-en-quittant-slack-pour-un-mattermost-auto-heberge/
• https://kopano.com/blog/matterbridge-bridging-mattermost-chat/
• https://www.stitcher.com/s/?eid=52382713
• https://daniele.tech/2019/02/how-to-use-matterbridge-to-connect-2-different-slack-workspaces/
• https://userlinux.net/mattermost-and-matterbridge.html

Thanks

This project is supported by:

Matterbridge wouldn't exist without these libraries:

• discord - https://github.com/bwmarrin/discordgo
• echo - https://github.com/labstack/echo
• gitter - https://github.com/sromku/go-gitter
• gops - https://github.com/google/gops
• gozulipbot - https://github.com/ifo/gozulipbot
• irc - https://github.com/lrstanley/girc
• keybase - https://github.com/keybase/go-keybase-chat-bot
• matrix - https://github.com/matrix-org/gomatrix
• mattermost - https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server
• msgraph.go - https://github.com/yaegashi/msgraph.go
• slack - https://github.com/nlopes/slack
• sshchat - https://github.com/shazow/ssh-chat
• steam - https://github.com/Philipp15b/go-steam
• telegram - https://github.com/go-telegram-bot-api/telegram-bot-api
• tengo - https://github.com/d5/tengo
• whatsapp - https://github.com/Rhymen/go-whatsapp/
• xmpp - https://github.com/mattn/go-xmpp
• zulip - https://github.com/ifo/gozulipbot