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Schmavery / facebook-chat-api

Unofficial Facebook Chat API for Nodejs
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Add guidelines section to README #208

Closed mjmohammet closed 8 years ago

mjmohammet commented 8 years ago

Hi,

Thank you for this interesting repo.

I tried this API on my personal account and another newly created account after several logins I got this error when log out from my personal account (and later on the other newly created account):

ERR! Error in logout TypeError: Cannot read property '0' of undefined ERR! Error in logout at /facebook/node_modules/facebook-chat-api/src/logout.js:18:44 ERR! Error in logout at tryCatcher (/facebook/node_modules/facebook-chat-api/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/util.js:26:23) ERR! Error in logout at Promise._settlePromiseFromHandler (/facebook/node_modules/facebook-chat-api/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/promise.js:507:31) ERR! Error in logout at Promise._settlePromiseAt (/facebook/node_modules/facebook-chat-api/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/promise.js:581:18) ERR! Error in logout at Promise._settlePromises (/facebook/node_modules/facebook-chat-api/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/promise.js:697:14) ERR! Error in logout at Async._drainQueue (/facebook/node_modules/facebook-chat-api/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/async.js:123:16) ERR! Error in logout at Async._drainQueues (/facebook/node_modules/facebook-chat-api/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/async.js:133:10) ERR! Error in logout at Immediate.Async.drainQueues [as _onImmediate] (/facebook/node_modules/facebook-chat-api/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/async.js:15:14) ERR! Error in logout at processImmediate [as _immediateCallback] (timers.js:383:17) ERR! Error in logout [TypeError: Cannot read property '0' of undefined]

Then I tried to log in and got: ERR! Error in login: Couldn't login. Facebook might have blocked this account. Please login with a browser or enable the option 'forceLogin' and try again.

I opened my account on browser and got this: screenshot from 2016-03-18 10 37 38

From my experience with Facebook I am not optimistic to get my account within weeks from now. I just want to know if this happens to you and what could be a solution to it (the error not Facebook block)? Why Facebook blocked me? is it session/cookies problem?

gamelaster commented 8 years ago

Wow! Interesting. I created few days ago new Facebook account with fake name, anyway not blocked. Then my personal account I used too, and not banned yet. Maybe you get some reports in personal account and because using a library you got banned. My friend got blocked because fake name(not using library), he sent a photo of personal identification card and after day he got account back

gamelaster commented 8 years ago

One more question, you logged still with credentials or your appState? Maybe if you log in with credentials more times in a low range of time, you got blocked.

mjmohammet commented 8 years ago

mmm.. this is interesting. I am using pure credentials. How can I enable appState instead credentials?

gamelaster commented 8 years ago

https://github.com/Schmavery/facebook-chat-api/blob/master/DOCS.md#login Little under is example with using appstate

Schmavery commented 8 years ago

What are you doing with the api? People frequently have things like this happen when they're spamming. ...I doubt using appState to log in will change anything, but feel free to try.

mehcode commented 8 years ago

Just want to chime in and say that I can confirm similar behavior if you do NOT use app state. It happens if you login repeatedly. I didn't try to narrow down exact parameters.

mjmohammet commented 8 years ago

@Schmavery I'm building a bot that responds to questions based on some keywords. It is something for fun and if it is for spamming I would say so.

I doubt that the block is due to multiple sessions opened at the same time as I created two scripts one for each account.

I am going to try the appState. Thanks @GAMELASTER

TexAgg commented 8 years ago

I have also had the same problem but I just had to enter a confirmation code to prove that I was a human. I think it happens if you log in too much.

gamelaster commented 8 years ago

@mjmohammet I did a similiar bot in a fake profile, all works good, any ban i didnt get yet, and its used alot, so its for appState

Schmavery commented 8 years ago

Awesome, thanks to everyone for chiming in. I'm going to close this issue now because it seems like appState is a good workaround.

Schmavery commented 8 years ago

As a followup, we're planning to add a section to the README with some guidelines to follow to minimize the cases of this happening. We will recommend the use of appState and remind people to send messages responsibly :)

Schmavery commented 8 years ago

Reopening as a reminder to add this section.