Add Matrix appservice support?

[poVoq]

It would be great if Matterbridge had Appservice support for Matrix to create puppet users with proper username and avatars.

There has been an attempt to add it to Matterbridge directly:

42wim#1864

But it is a rather large PR and in my testing never worked for more than one room simultaneously.

A better attempt would be probably to repurpose Matterbridge webhooks and utilize this gateway for Matrix:

https://github.com/geluk/matrix-webhook-gateway

It seems to support relaying user names and load avatars from an url and I guess with a plugin it could be optimized for Matterbridge.

[antonizoon]

Yeah this looks like it will be pretty challenging to merge and more importantly maintain. If more developers help out in our fork, it may be awesome to aim for after getting through all the other critical fixes though.

[poVoq]

I think the best solution would be to have a small webhook or similar standalone appservice that can create new users on the fly and then reuse the Slack or Discord bridging part in Matterbridge. The above linked project might or might not be suitable for that.

[funderscore1]

I'll see if I can try to get it working with the aforementionned webhook thing

[poVoq]

I actually asked a similar question in the more official hookshot project: matrix-org/matrix-hookshot#1067