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sindresorhus / caprine

Elegant Facebook Messenger desktop app
MIT License
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Ops! #2143

Open mixedbyte opened 8 months ago

mixedbyte commented 8 months ago

Probably worth mentioning that this will not work if you do not have messenger on your phone. Wasted alot of time with this.

Caprine 2.59.3 Electron 25.9.8 linux 6.7.5-1-default Locale: en-US

hsaladin commented 8 months ago

I don't have messenger on my phone either (and never had since I don't have a smartphone) and yet, until a few days ago Caprine used to work fine on my laptop computer running Ubuntu. So, that is the reason why it is not mentioned that this will not work if you do not have messenger on your phone : it's because it's supposed to work ! It looks like the reason it has stopped working is because Meta has made some changes recently. Let's hope a solution will be found soon.

aiman-al-masoud commented 8 months ago

Indeed, you're not supposed to have the messenger app on your phone for Caprine to work, but I have recently experienced the same problem. It seems that if you:

Caprine will go back to displaying your chats, at least temporarily. I think the right kind of URL that Caprine should be opening on is something like: 'https://www.messenger.com/t/'.

Piscium commented 8 months ago

For me messenger.com does not work on the browser, neither on desktop or phone, it asks for the phone app. However "facebook.com/messages" works on the desktop (not phone). Caprine is of course not a phone app. I wonder if the url for caprine could be changed to "facebook.com/messages"? This would not work for people that have only a messenger account though. So perhaps a solution would be to make the url configurable by the user.

Edit: I just created a feature request for this: https://github.com/sindresorhus/caprine/issues/2144

alekksander commented 8 months ago

set location.href to something other than the current page

can You explain more ?

edit: okay, i fiddled around and chats loaded. not sure why and how, since i didn't change anything in the html or address, but surprisingly it works now every time i start caprine, which proves it's possible to skip this stupid limitation.

edit2: nope, after 5–6th relaunch it's back to "…phone to continue bs" ← also happens over time.