FBchatException: Could not fetch thread 2355367: {u'message_thread': None}

Description of the problem

FBchatException: Could not fetch thread 2355367: {u’message_thread’: None} - It has something to do with the line thread_id=client.uid

Code to reproduce

# Example code
from fbchat import  Client, log
from fbchat.models import *
import fileinput

class punkjj(Client):

    def onMessage(self, author_id=None, message_object=None, thread_id=None, thread_type=ThreadType.USER, **kwargs):
        toggle = client.fetchThreadMessages(thread_id=client.uid, limit=1) # client.uid means its our own acc
        for message in toggle:
            pText=message.text.lower()
        if("online" in pText):
            self.markAsRead(author_id)
        log.info("Message {} from {} in {}".format(message_object, thread_id, thread_type))  
        msgText = message_object.text.lower()
        if(msgText=="hi" or msgText=="hii" or msgText=="hiii" or msgText=="yo" or msgText=="hi there" or msgText=="hey" or msgText=="heyy"):
            reply = "Hello :D"
        elif(msgText=="hello" or msgText=="hellow" or msgText=="heloo" or msgText=="hlo" or msgText=="hellow"):
            reply = "Hi :)"
        elif(msgText=="hy" or msgText=="hyy"):
            reply = "Hello :D"
        elif(msgText=="whatsup" or msgText=="wassup" or msgText=="what's up" or msgText=="wtsup" or msgText=="watsup" or msgText=="whats up" or "how are you" in msgText or "hw r u" in msgText):
            reply = "Awesome. What about you? :D"
        elif(msgText=="test" or msgText=="debug" or msgText=="aboutme" or msgText=="about" or msgText=="bot"):
            reply = "Hi, I'm a bot written in Python. Created by Pankaj Sheoran"
        elif("birthday" in msgText or "bday" in msgText or "hbd" in msgText):
            reply = "Thank you! :D"
        elif("what you doing" in msgText):
            reply = "Idling, I'm a bot afterall. I work for my creator, Pankaj Sheoran (www.punkjj.cf)"
        elif("bye" in msgText or msgText=="byye" or msgText=="byee"):
            reply = "Ok bye! :D"
        else:
            reply = "Thank you for contacting me. I'm currently not online, I was replying using a Python Script. I will reach out to you shortly."
        def sendMsgg():
            if (author_id!=self.uid):
                self.send(Message(text=reply), thread_id=thread_id, thread_type=thread_type)
            self.markAsDelivered(author_id, thread_id)     
        if ("online" in pText):
            sendMsgg()

client = punkjj("EMAIL", "PASSWORD")

client.listen()

Traceback

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/username/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/fbchat/client.py", line 2278, in _parseMessage
    thread_id=thread_id, thread_type=thread_type, ts=ts, metadata=metadata, msg=m)
  File "test.py", line 10, in onMessage
    toggle = client.fetchThreadMessages(thread_id=client.uid, limit=1) # client.uid means its our own acc
  File "/Users/username/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/fbchat/client.py", line 845, in fetchThreadMessages
    raise FBchatException('Could not fetch thread {}: {}'.format(thread_id, j))
FBchatException: Could not fetch thread 2355367: {u'message_thread': None}

Environment information

• Python 2.7
• fbchat (1.4.2)
• If relevant, output from $ python -m pip list

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I’ve search google, but I’m fairly new this API and there wasn’t any examples of “auto-reply” except for one script I found on the web called FB-AutoReply. That’s all I know. Please help. I believe it has something to do with the “client.uid” in which it’s adding my Profile ID, and I don’t understand why it needs that. Has this script worked for anyone else?

[mattyicer]

wait…so I do this:

if author_id != self.uid:
            Client.send(Message(text=reply), thread_id=thread_id, thread_type=thread_type)

Nope…that didn’t work. Ah, please bare with me 😃

I think I’m confuse as to where I put Client.send into the script…

UPDATE Got it to work. Thanks so much for your help. Such a nice fella. 👍

[mattyicer]

No sir, we’re all good. You’re the man! 😃