Instagram-private-api: Examples for sending direct messages?

[tsax]

Hi

In the API Readme, I see the following line:
Send direct messages or list direct messages in inbox
But I couldn't find example code or even the classes in the source
that I could use to send DMs.

Can someone help?
Thanks!

[jake-walker]

I've just thrown together this code by looking through IGDM (which uses this API):

const iClient = require("instagram-private-api").V1;
const device = new iClient.Device("myuser");
const storage = new iClient.CookieFileStorage(__dirname + "/myuser.json");

iClient.Session.create(device, storage, "myuser", "mypassword").then((session) => {
    iClient.Thread.getById(session, "messageid").then((thread) => {
        thread.broadcastText("Hello World!").then((threadWrapper) => {
            console.log(threadWrapper);
        });
    });
});

It's not great by any means. This file seems to contain a lot of useful function calls.

[Developer-sa]

Hi Jake,
Thanks for the example.

Can you also give me an example for getting the direct messages sent by the other person?

Thanks in advance

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

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Date: 19/09/2018 7:12 pm (GMT+03:00)
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Subject: Re: [huttarichard/instagram-private-api] Examples for sending direct messages? (#563)

I've just thrown together this code by looking through IGDMhttps://github.com/ifedapoolarewaju/igdm (which uses this API):

const iClient = require("instagram-private-api").V1;
const device = new iClient.Device("myuser");
const storage = new iClient.CookieFileStorage(__dirname + "/myuser.json");

iClient.Session.create(device, storage, "myuser", "mypassword").then((session) => {
iClient.Thread.getById(session, "messageid").then((thread) => {
thread.broadcastText("Hello World!").then((threadWrapper) => {
console.log(threadWrapper);
});
});
});

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[jake-walker]

In the thread object you can do thread.items to get all of the chat message objects. I've done this so far:

thread.items.forEach((message => {
  console.log(`${message._params.text} from ${message._params.userId}`);
});

[Developer-sa]

Thanks much, Jake.
Can you tell me what is the 'messageid' parameter that you have mentioned in,
iClient.Thread.getById(session, "messageid").then((thread) => {

Thanks

[Developer-sa]

Is there any way, I can get only the direct messages sent by the other person, not by me. I want to get only the last direct message of my friend.

Thanks in advance

[jake-walker]

You can get your 10 most recent chats by doing:

var chats = new Client.Feed.Inbox(session, 10);
chats.all().then((latestchats) => {
  latestchats.forEach((chat) => {
    console.log(chat.id);
  });
});

And for your other question, each chat object has the ID of the user who has sent the message. I think it's something like message._params.userid you could then use an if to only select messages with your friend's ID.

Hope this helps.

[Brhernann]

After to create the session

Client.Thread.configureText(session, "InstagamID", "Hello world!").then( threads => { console.log(threads[0].params); }

[AliAhmedNada]

hello
i got this error below , i cannot figure out from where should i debug my code
Unhandled rejection NotFoundError: Page wasn't found!
i used the above example to test sending message to myself .

Regards
Ali Ahmed Nada