On FBNS message, automatically accept the DM request and reply to the user

[Androz2091]

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So, I'm making an Instagram chatbot. When a user sends 'hello' to the user, it replies 'hello!'. It works perfectly.

But sometimes, the bot account doesn't know a new user account and it throws the following error: IgExactUserNotFoundError: User with exact username not found.

This error comes from the code which try to reply to the user. And it happens when the bot receive a "DM Request". By looking for a few hours, I could find the solution myself, but the problem is that I can't reproduce the bug, since I need a new instagram account for each test (else it won't trigger a dm request). So I was wondering if you'd know how to do that:

• when a message is received from the FBNS client, detect if it's a real message or if it's blocked by a DM request.
• automatically accept the DM request.
• send a message to the user.

I don't know if that's possible and if so, I very much hope you know how, @Nerixyz... 🙏🙏

[Nerixyz]

when a message is received from the FBNS client, detect if it's a real message or if it's blocked by a DM request.

I guess the DM is then pending. There's no real direct/info request so you'll have to look at the feed like this:

const {thread: {pending}} = await this.ig.feed.directThread({thread_id: id, oldest_cursor: undefined}).request();
console.log(pending);

This is how you know if it's pending. Then you can call ig.directThread.approve(id) to accept the request. Note: ig.feed.directThread({}) is very useful when dealing with threads. I'm also using it here to get basic informations about the thread.

[Androz2091]

Thank you very much! I can't test at the moment as I don't have a second Instagram account but I hope it will work :)