Get all directInbox messages - isMoreAvailable doesn't work #1001

Can’t get more then 10 directInbox messages

Trying to get all messages from inbox. I know there are lots of issues about this but still doesn’t work

Tried this but isMoreAvailable() always false

I can get all messages only after setting ‘thread_message_limit’ to 1000 in DirectInboxFeed class from npm package directly

Pls check how can we get all directInbox messages

Code

const ig = new instagramPrivateApi.IgApiClient();
// You must generate device id's before login.
// Id's generated based on seed
// So if you pass the same value as first argument - the same id's are generated every time
ig.state.generateDevice(process.env.IG_USERNAME);
// Optionally you can setup proxy url
//ig.state.proxyUrl = process.env.IG_PROXY;
(async () => {

  // Execute all requests prior to authorization in the real Android application
  // Not required but recommended
  await ig.simulate.preLoginFlow();
  const loggedInUser = await ig.account.login(process.env.IG_USERNAME, process.env.IG_PASSWORD);
  // The same as preLoginFlow()
  // Optionally wrap it to process.nextTick so we dont need to wait ending of this bunch of requests
  process.nextTick(async () => await ig.simulate.postLoginFlow());
  // Create UserFeed instance to get loggedInUser's posts


let isMoreAvailable = false;

const dmFeed = ig.feed.directInbox();
const dmFeedItems = await dmFeed.items();
    isMoreAvailable = await dmFeed.isMoreAvailable();

    const dmFeed2 = ig.feed.directInbox();
const dmFeedItems2 = await dmFeed2.items();
    isMoreAvailable = await dmFeed2.isMoreAvailable();

})();

[Nerixyz]

items in both dmFeedItems and dmFeedItems2 are the same

This happens, because you are using a brand new feed every time. You have to reuse the feed or how else could it know about its state. The function I provided in #969 will then work. I assume you want to get all items, so integrating the function will look like this:

(async () => {
  // init IgApiClient as ig
  const items = await getAllItemsFromFeed(ig.feed.directInbox());
})();
async function getAllItemsFromFeed(feed) {
    let items = [];
    do {
        items = items.concat(await feed.items());
    } while(feed.isMoreAvailable());
    return items;
}

[dyigitpolat]

items in both dmFeedItems and dmFeedItems2 are the same

This happens, because you are using a brand new feed every time. You have to reuse the feed or how else could it know about its state. The function I provided in #969 will then work. I assume you want to get all items, so integrating the function will look like this:

(async () => {
  // init IgApiClient as ig
  const items = await getAllItemsFromFeed(ig.feed.directInbox());
})();
async function getAllItemsFromFeed(feed) {
    let items = [];
    do {
        items = items.concat(await feed.items());
    } while(feed.isMoreAvailable());
    return items;
}

doesnt work for DMs.