Igbot: Direct message

Created on 26 Jan 2017 · 26Comments · Source: ohld/igbot

Hello!
I tried to implement direct messages by adding

def direct_message(self, userid,messagestxt):
    data = json.dumps({
    'recipient_users'   : str(userid)
    'client_context'    : str(self.uuid),
    '_uuid'             : str(self.uuid),
    '_uid'              : str(self.username_id),
    '_csrftoken'        : str(self.token),
    'thread_ids'        : '0',
    'text'              : 'test message',
    })
    print self.SendRequest('direct_v2/threads/broadcast/text/', self.generateSignature(data))
    print self.LastJson

and I get on the console, from the "print" commands:

Request return 400 error!
False
{u'status': u'fail', u'message': u'Text is missing'}

Do you have any idea / suggestion to make direct messages working?
Thank you.

enhancement

Source

mafa89

All 26 comments

Are you sure that param name for message text is "text"? May be it has another name so Instagram parser can't find message text.

ohld on 26 Jan 2017

I got inspired by the php code, which reads like:

...
        $endpoint = 'direct_v2/threads/broadcast/text/';
        $boundary = $this->parent->uuid;
        $bodies = [
            [
                'type' => 'form-data',
                'name' => 'recipient_users',
                'data' => "[[$recipient_users]]",
            ],
            [
                'type' => 'form-data',
                'name' => 'client_context',
                'data' => $this->parent->uuid,
            ],
            [
                'type' => 'form-data',
                'name' => 'thread_ids',
                'data' => '["0"]',
            ],
            [
                'type' => 'form-data',
                'name' => 'text',
                'data' => is_null($text) ? '' : $text,
            ],
        ];

        $data = $this->buildBody($bodies, $boundary);
        $headers = [
            'Proxy-Connection: keep-alive',
            'Connection: keep-alive',
            'Accept: */*',
            'Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary='.$boundary,
            'Accept-Language: en-en',
        ];

...

mafa89 on 26 Jan 2017

😕1

May be you should pass thread_ids param as _list_ of one value not as a simple value? As at the php example.

ohld on 26 Jan 2017

The same with other arguments (recipient_users)

ohld on 26 Jan 2017

I tried several different requests, including the suggestion you proposed, but without any luck :(
If someone will manage to try this out, and find a solution, please let me know!
Thank you.

mafa89 on 26 Jan 2017

Are you sure that PHP version works?

ohld on 26 Jan 2017

I did not try the PHP version personally, but the authors told me it is working...

mafa89 on 26 Jan 2017

If the original version is not working, you don't need to try the same in python :)
But I appreciate your Idea and test. Maybe someone will continue your research

ohld on 27 Jan 2017

Hello everybody!

Any news about this issue? Is it working?

edrizo on 25 Mar 2017

Здравствуйте.
Как запустить бота????

oleglaran on 2 Apr 2017

👎9

Up! :+1:

Perados on 26 Aug 2017

Any news on this? I tried to implement the direct message method without much success. I thought I could use the direct_share method as a template, but that method is also broken. I get:

api.direct_share("XXXXXXXXXXXXXX", "XXXXXXXXXX", 'Hello')
{u'message': u'Thread does not exist', u'status': u'fail'}

Trying to implement the direct message one, I get:
{u'message': u'Text is missing', u'status': u'fail'}

The same as @mafa89 . I also tried many different combinations for the request, nothing worked. :(

Perados on 27 Aug 2017

@mafa89 @Perados @edrizo I'll add methods for direct messaging in next few days

sudoguy on 27 Aug 2017

@mafa89 @Perados @edrizo Now you can send messages. https://github.com/instagrambot/instabot/commit/ce98922a56b524aef70cd65fe1308280d72514f1
Example:

user_ids = ['user_one', 'user_two', 'user_three']

# send_message will create group with message "Hello" 
bot.send_message('Hello', user_ids)

# send_messages will send message for every user in list personally 
bot.send_messages('Hello, user_ids)

sudoguy on 28 Aug 2017

😕1 🎉1

@sudoguy Thank you! I will test this tonight and let you know how it goes!
Cheers!

Perados on 28 Aug 2017

Hello.
Is this working? @sudoguy , wich parameters do you send when send the post ?? I am trying to send from my client, but using the instagram api directly and i cannot discover the parameters that needs to put in the body. I appreciate if you explain me.

Thanks

mcferdev on 30 Aug 2017

@marcelinhovt You can find all parameters here

sudoguy on 30 Aug 2017

@sudoguy @marcelinhovt Works like a charm. Using it in production now. Thank you very much! 👍
I use it like this :

        instabot.send_message('Hello', ['12345'])

Perados on 30 Aug 2017

@Perados @sudoguy Nice!! What does the str(uuid.uuid4()) ?? Because in my functions i did not need yet to pass any uuid ! So, i don´t understand how build this uuid to send...
For direct message i am seeing that is a lot of fields...

mcferdev on 30 Aug 2017

@marcelinhovt you need System.Guid.NewGuid()

sudoguy on 30 Aug 2017

please put your successful code here.
I'm trying to write same code in c# & was success in follow, unfollow, like & comment. but can't send direct.

my code response is Error 400, text is missing

i used this dictionary:

var dic = new Dictionary<string, string>
            {
                { "text" ,     Text},
                {"recipient_users", "[" + UserId +"]" },
                {"action" , "send_item" },
                {"client_context",  Theclient_context },
                {"_csrftoken",    csrftoken},
                { "_uuid",         guid },
                {"_uid",          ds_user_id }
            };