Instagram.com - Unsend All Messages

InstagramHelper.js

// instagram.com utilities
//
// currently I only have unsend all messages in thread implemented.
// but may add more if I need them
// (this won't work in incognito due to localStorage, session, & cookie values being required)
//
// To use, navigate to the thread in a web browser (I only tested with Chrome)
// and copy and paste the code into a Developer tools console
// "threadId" will need to be updated with the appropriate value
class InstagramHelper {
  constructor(userId = null) {
    this.userId = userId || this.getCookie("ds_user_id");
    this.prevCursor = "";
    this.oldestCursor = "";
  }

  /**
   * Pause execution for n milliseconds
   * This is useful for avoiding Rate Limiting errors
   * @param {number} ms Number of ms to pause for
   */
  sleep(ms) {
    const end = Date.now() + ms;
    while (Date.now() < end) { continue };
  }

  /**
   * Get cookie value if it exists,
   * Return empty string otherwise
   * @param {string} name Key to lookup
   * @returns {string} Value of cookie
   */
  getCookie(name) {
    if (document.cookie.length > 0) {
        let start = document.cookie.indexOf(name + "=");
        if (start != -1) {
            start = start + name.length + 1;
            let end = document.cookie.indexOf(";", start);
            if (end == -1) {
              end = document.cookie.length;
            }
            return unescape(document.cookie.substring(start, end));
        }
    }

    return "";
  }

  /**
   * Unsend all messages in the given thread
   * (May need to be run a few times to completely remove everything)
   * (I'm too lazy to find the optimal interval to avoid 429 errors - rate limits)
   *
   * @param {string?} threadId The thread ID
   * @param {number} delay Number of ms between each delete request
   * @returns {boolean} Were all messages successfully deleted
   */
  async unsendAll(threadId = undefined, delay = 3500) {
    if (threadId == null || threadId == undefined) {
       // Get the chat id automatically from the url
      var threadId = window.location.href.split('/')[5];
      console.warn("Starting deleting from thread Id : " + threadId);
    }

    const threadLink = "https://www.instagram.com/direct/t/" + threadId;
    // Array of message ids
    const itemIds = [];
    // Array of delete message ids
    const deletedItemIds = [];
    // Messages hash (keyed by id)
    const messages = {};

    while (this.prevCursor != "MINCURSOR") {
      let getMessageAPIUrl = "https://i.instagram.com/api/v1/direct_v2/threads/" + threadId + "/";
      if (this.oldestCursor != undefined && this.oldestCursor != null && this.oldestCursor.length > 0) {
          getMessageAPIUrl = getMessageAPIUrl + "?cursor=" + this.oldestCursor + "";
      }

      const requestOptions = {
        "credentials": "include",
        "headers": {
            "accept": "*/*",
            "accept-encoding": "gzip, deflate, br",
            "accept-language": "en-GB,en-US;q=0.9,en;q=0.8",
            "sec-fetch-dest": "empty",
            "sec-fetch-mode": "cors",
            "sec-fetch-site": "same-site",
            "x-ig-app-id": localStorage.getItem("instagramWebFBAppId"),
            "x-ig-www-claim": sessionStorage.getItem("www-claim-v2"),
            "x-requested-with": "XMLHttpRequest",
            "user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 12_3_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/15E148 Instagram 105.0.0.11.118 (iPhone11,8; iOS 12_3_1; en_US; en-US; scale=2.00; 828x1792; 165586599)"
        },
        "referrer": threadLink,
        "referrerPolicy": "no-referrer-when-downgrade",
        "body": null,
        "method": "GET",
        "mode": "cors"
      };

      await fetch(
        getMessageAPIUrl,
        requestOptions
      )
        .then((response) => {
            if (response.status != 200) {
                throw response.status;
            }

            return response.json();
        }).then(async (data) => {
          console.log("getting messages...");
          data.thread.items.forEach(element => {
              if (element.user_id.toString() == this.userId.toString()) {
                  if (!itemIds.includes(element.item_id.toString())) {
                    // Keep track of just ids
                    itemIds.push(element.item_id.toString());
                    // Keep track of the full message in case we need it later
                    messages[element.item_id.toString()] = element;
                  }
              }
          });

          console.log('About to delete', itemIds)
          //#region  Deleting Messages
          for (let itemIdIndex = 0; itemIdIndex < itemIds.length; itemIdIndex++) {
              const messageItemId = itemIds[itemIdIndex];
              let alreadyDeleted = false;
              let rateLimitReached = false;
              const unsendRequestOptions = {
                  "credentials": "include",
                  "headers": {
                      "accept": "*/*",
                      "accept-encoding": "gzip, deflate, br",
                      "accept-language": "en-GB,en-US;q=0.9,en;q=0.8",
                      "content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
                      "sec-fetch-dest": "empty",
                      "sec-fetch-mode": "cors",
                      "sec-fetch-site": "same-site",
                      "x-csrftoken": this.getCookie("csrftoken"),
                      "x-ig-app-id": localStorage.getItem("instagramWebFBAppId"),
                      "x-ig-www-claim": sessionStorage.getItem("www-claim-v2"),
                      "x-requested-with": "XMLHttpRequest",
                      "user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 12_3_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/15E148 Instagram 105.0.0.11.118 (iPhone11,8; iOS 12_3_1; en_US; en-US; scale=2.00; 828x1792; 165586599)"
                  },
                  "referrer": threadLink,
                  "referrerPolicy": "no-referrer-when-downgrade",
                  "body": null,
                  "method": "POST",
                  "mode": "cors"
              };

              alreadyDeleted = deletedItemIds.includes(messageItemId);
              if (!alreadyDeleted) {
                await fetch(
                  "https://i.instagram.com/api/v1/direct_v2/threads/" + threadId + "/items/" + messageItemId + "/delete/",
                  unsendRequestOptions
                ).then((response) => {
                  const message = messages[messageItemId];
                  rateLimitReached = response.status === 429;
                  if (response.status != 200) {
                      console.error(`Message skipped... ${messageItemId}: ${message.text}`);
                      console.log(response);
                  } else {
                      console.info(`Deleting... ${messageItemId}: ${message.text}`);
                      deletedItemIds.push(messageItemId);
                  }

                  if (rateLimitReached) {
                    // Add item to end of list so it can be retried later
                    itemIds.push(messageItemId);
                  }
                }).catch((error) => {
                    console.error(error);
                });
              } else {
                console.log(`Skipping: ${messageItemId} - Already deleted`)
              }

              let sleepFor = rateLimitReached ? 6000 : (alreadyDeleted ? 0 : delay);
              this.sleep(sleepFor);
          }
          //#endregion Deleting Messages
          console.log('Done deleting batch');
          this.oldestCursor = data.thread.oldest_cursor;
          this.prevCursor = data.thread.prev_cursor;
        });
    }

    console.warn("All messages deleted.");
    return itemIds.length === deletedItemIds.length;
  }
}

// Navigate to your inbox on Instagram and go to the thread you want to delete
// The URL should be something like:
// https://www.instagram.com/direct/t/12345678901234567890
// The long list of numbers at the end is the thread id
// Because it is such a long number,
// it needs to be used as a string in this script
let threadId = "123456789012345678901234567890123456789";
let Instagram = new InstagramHelper();
Instagram.unsendAll(threadId, 1500);

// If no threadId is passed, we will try and guess it from the url
// So if this code is executed on the page containing the messages that need
// deleting it is sufficient to just use the following:
// const ig = new InstagramHelper; ig.unsendAll();