matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/docs/configuring-playbook-bridge-appservice-kakaotalk.md

Setting up Appservice Kakaotalk (optional)

The playbook can install and configure matrix-appservice-kakaotalk for you. matrix-appservice-kakaotalk is a bridge to Kakaotalk based on node-kakao (now unmaintained) and some mautrix-facebook code.

NOTE: there have been recent reports (~2022-09-16) that using this bridge may get your account banned.

See the project's documentation to learn what it does and why it might be useful to you.

Installing

To enable the bridge, add this to your vars.yml file:

matrix_appservice_kakaotalk_enabled: true

You may optionally wish to add some Additional configuration, or to prepare for double-puppeting before the initial installation.

After adjusting your vars.yml file, re-run the playbook and restart all services: ansible-playbook -i inventory/hosts setup.yml --tags=setup-all,start

To make use of the Kakaotalk bridge, see Usage below.

Additional configuration

There are some additional things you may wish to configure about the bridge.

Take a look at:

• roles/custom/matrix-bridge-appservice-kakaotalk/defaults/main.yml for some variables that you can customize via your vars.yml file
• roles/custom/matrix-bridge-appservice-kakaotalk/templates/config.yaml.j2 for the bridge's default configuration. You can override settings (even those that don't have dedicated playbook variables) using the matrix_appservice_kakaotalk_configuration_extension_yaml variable

Set up Double Puppeting

If you'd like to use Double Puppeting (hint: you most likely do), you have 2 ways of going about it.

Method 1: automatically, by enabling Shared Secret Auth

The bridge will automatically perform Double Puppeting if you enable Shared Secret Auth for this playbook.

This is the recommended way of setting up Double Puppeting, as it's easier to accomplish, works for all your users automatically, and has less of a chance of breaking in the future.

Method 2: manually, by asking each user to provide a working access token

Note: This method for enabling Double Puppeting can be configured only after you've already set up bridging (see Usage).

When using this method, each user that wishes to enable Double Puppeting needs to follow the following steps:

• retrieve a Matrix access token for yourself. Refer to the documentation on how to do that.

• send the access token to the bot. Example: login-matrix MATRIX_ACCESS_TOKEN_HERE

• make sure you don't log out the Appservice-Kakaotalk device some time in the future, as that would break the Double Puppeting feature

Usage

Start a chat with @kakaotalkbot:YOUR_DOMAIN (where YOUR_DOMAIN is your base domain, not the matrix. domain).

Send login --save EMAIL_OR_PHONE_NUMBER to the bridge bot to enable bridging for your Kakaotalk account. The --save flag may be omitted, if you'd rather not save your password.

After successfully enabling bridging, you may wish to set up Double Puppeting, if you haven't already done so.