Instagram-private-api: Get all Direct Messages

Created on 18 Jun 2017 · 7Comments · Source: dilame/instagram-private-api

Hi all, if somebody knows hot to get all Direct Messages, not just the last, please help!

My code is the next:

Client.Session.create(device, storage, 'user', 'password')
    .then(function(session) {
        var accountId = storage.getAccountId() .then(function(accountId){ console.log(accountId); return 
        accountId;});
        var feed = new Client.Feed.Inbox(session, accountId);
        feed.get()
            .then(function(results) {
                return results[0].items;
            })
            .then(function (items) {
                console.log(items[0]._params.text);
            })

results[0].items; - returns array with only the last direct message, while there should be a lot of messages.
How to get them all?

I am appreciated for any help

Source

slim25

Most helpful comment

Ok I changed feed-base.js to catch and retry and I was able to finish getting 12407 messages, phew!

        // If ParseError, we assume that this is 403 forbidden HTML page, caused by "Too many requests". Just take a pause and retry.
        .catch(Exceptions.ParseError, function () {
            // Every consecutive ParseError makes delay befor new request longer. Otherwise we will never reach the end.
            that.parseErrorsMultiplier++;
            // When delay time is beyond reasonable, throw exception.
            if(that.parseErrorsMultiplier > parameters.maxErrors)
                throw new Exceptions.RequestsLimitError;
            return Promise.resolve([]).delay(parameters.pause * that.parseErrorsMultiplier)
        })
        .catch(Exceptions.RequestError, function () {
            // Every consecutive ParseError makes delay befor new request longer. Otherwise we will never reach the end.
            that.parseErrorsMultiplier++;
            // When delay time is beyond reasonable, throw exception.
            if(that.parseErrorsMultiplier > parameters.maxErrors)
                throw new Exceptions.RequestsLimitError;
            return Promise.resolve([]).delay(parameters.pause * that.parseErrorsMultiplier)
        })
        .then(function (results) {

Elyx0 on 19 Jun 2017

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I made this https://github.com/Elyx0/instagram-inbox-api/blob/master/src/instapi.js to read them, but I tried with an account with 3000+ messages in a thread and It wasn't able to finish...

Elyx0 on 19 Jun 2017

While doing the

  const tFeed = new Client.Feed.ThreadItems(session, threadId);
  const tFeedIt = await tFeed.all();

Was around iteration 226 with allResults.length ~ 4495

Result:

Error: read ECONNRESET
    at exports._errnoException (util.js:1026:11)
    at TLSWrap.onread (net.js:607:25)

"RequestError: Error: read ECONNRESET
    at new RequestError (/instadmback/node_modules/instagram-private-api/node_modules/request-promise/lib/errors.js:11:15)
    at Request.RP$callback [as _callback] (/instadmback/node_modules/instagram-private-api/node_modules/request-promise/lib/rp.js:60:32)
    at self.callback (/instadmback/node_modules/request/request.js:188:22)
    at emitOne (events.js:115:13)
    at Request.emit (events.js:210:7)
    at Request.onRequestError (/instadmback/node_modules/request/request.js:884:8)
    at emitOne (events.js:115:13)
    at ClientRequest.emit (events.js:210:7)
    at TLSSocket.socketErrorListener (_http_client.js:399:9)
    at emitOne (events.js:115:13)
    at TLSSocket.emit (events.js:210:7)
    at emitErrorNT (internal/streams/destroy.js:62:8)
    at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:102:11)
    at process._tickDomainCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:198:9)"

Elyx0 on 19 Jun 2017

I think it might be possible to catch it either directly from the lib or with a try catch when calling the .all(), getting the current cursor from the error and restarting from there...

Actually the 2nd option will not work as we would be losing the already fetched results... since only the error gets thrown, not the current fetching state

Elyx0 on 19 Jun 2017

Ok I changed feed-base.js to catch and retry and I was able to finish getting 12407 messages, phew!

        // If ParseError, we assume that this is 403 forbidden HTML page, caused by "Too many requests". Just take a pause and retry.
        .catch(Exceptions.ParseError, function () {
            // Every consecutive ParseError makes delay befor new request longer. Otherwise we will never reach the end.
            that.parseErrorsMultiplier++;
            // When delay time is beyond reasonable, throw exception.
            if(that.parseErrorsMultiplier > parameters.maxErrors)
                throw new Exceptions.RequestsLimitError;
            return Promise.resolve([]).delay(parameters.pause * that.parseErrorsMultiplier)
        })
        .catch(Exceptions.RequestError, function () {
            // Every consecutive ParseError makes delay befor new request longer. Otherwise we will never reach the end.
            that.parseErrorsMultiplier++;
            // When delay time is beyond reasonable, throw exception.
            if(that.parseErrorsMultiplier > parameters.maxErrors)
                throw new Exceptions.RequestsLimitError;
            return Promise.resolve([]).delay(parameters.pause * that.parseErrorsMultiplier)
        })
        .then(function (results) {

Elyx0 on 19 Jun 2017

👍5

Thanks @Elyx0 it helps!

slim25 on 13 Jul 2017

This should go as a pull request! :)