#47 Error when opening chats

[Anonymous]

Originally created by: amolinae06

Describe the bug
When attempting to open instagram-cli I get the error mentioned below. I'm using an executable made by myself.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Run instagram-cli chat start.
2. Wait a few seconds.

3. Get the following error:

   Attempting to login with session...
   ╭──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Traceback (most recent call last) ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
   │ in start:77 │
   │ │
   │ in start_chat:47 │
   │ │
   │ in wrapper:94 │
   │ │
   │ in init_chat:45 │
   │ │
   │ in main_loop:62 │
   │ │
   │ in with_loading_screen:33 │
   │ │
   │ in fetch_chat_data:54 │
   │ │
   │ in direct_threads:88 │
   │ │
   │ in direct_threads_chunk:153 │
   │ │
   │ in extract_direct_thread:288 │
   │ │
   │ in extract_user_short:195 │
   ╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
   AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get'
   [PYI-31784:ERROR] Failed to execute script 'cli' due to unhandled exception!

Expected behavior
Chats should open normally.

Screenshots

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Artix Linux x86_64
• Version: Both1.2.8 and latest commit have this issue.

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: supreme-gg-gg

This seems to be an issue with instagrapi and how it handles Instagram API responses. It’s likely that a specific chat has missing fields in the response, which can happen since Instagram doesn’t have an official API. We’ll look into adding a wrapper to prevent these errors from breaking chat functionality, but it seems to be a very rare case.

If you try searching and opening a specific chat (e.g. by username) and it works properly, it is probably a rare issue with loading message from one specific chat in the list.

[Anonymous]

Ticket changed by: supreme-gg-gg

• status: open --> closed