igdmapps/igdm

Desktop application for Instagram DMs

IGdm Messenger

Multi-platform Desktop application for INSTAGRAM DMs, built with electron

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Local Development

To setup this project locally for development purposes please follow the following steps:

1. Ensure you Node.js installed. See

2. Clone this repo by running the command - git clone https://github.com/ifedapoolarewaju/igdm.git

3. Navigate to the directory where the repo is cloned to. (e.g cd igdm)

4. Run npm install to install all the dependencies.

5. Start the application locally by running npm start

That's it! :) Now you can have those pull requests rolling in! :D

License

The MIT License.

igdm's Issues

Month missing in date format

Date is currently being displayed as dd/yyyy instead of dd/mm/yyyy

No launcher Icon

IG:DM 2.2
Ubuntu 17.10

IGDM does not have an icon while running. Uses a default terminal icon with a cross which is a little worrying. Difficult to tell what's running!

This website suggests syntax should be
icon: path.join(__dirname, 'assets/icons/png/64x64.png')

Launch IGdm on system startup

This would increase usage of the application

copycat scammer ?

http://i-directmessage.com uses project assets however directs to multiple advertisement sites...

Cant sighn in

I cant sign in because of a "Parse error" I have checked the username and password a few times to make sure that it is correct and it still will not work. Very frustrated

Doesn't Run on windows 7 and 10

I tried to run this program on Windows 7, no dice.

What was I doing wrong?

No message history

I can only view the last 10 messages or so. It would be very useful to see older messages as well.
Thank you for the app:)

Messages containing links

When a message contains links, it should be rendered such that the links would be clickable, and the url gets opened on the browser when clicked

two-step verification

app doesn't seem to work if 2-step verification is active since there is no prompt to insert code

can't install 2.3.0 at all

When I try to install the new version, the setup closes immediately and I can't install it at all. I'm using Win7.

Loading more messages on scroll

Limited amount of messages are currently being loaded per chat. Would be nice to implement the feature to load more messages are users scroll up their chat.

why i cant send images ?

Can't send photos

Please add this feature

Notification badges on the app icon

It'll be nice to have notification badges on the app icon. This way you can always know when you have a new message waiting for you.

Delete a conversation

why does it make a new group chat when i just messaged in one and do i delete a conversation

Error message on entering invalid username/password

The app currently displays no message to the user to show if a wrong username or password is entered on login.
It'll be a better user experience to know which of my input fields I made a mistake typing in.

APPCRASH

Hi! Yes but i fixed it now! :) I don't know what was the problem but i tried installing it like five times and now it works! (sorry for any English mistake)

Automated testing

there's a need to assure that every feature still works on addition of new features.

On mac

after opening the app

[Linux] desktop file is lacking a Categories= entry

The desktop file is lacking a Categories= entry in the *.desktop file.

According to the menu spec,

By including one of the Main Categories in an application's desktop entry file, the application will be ensured that it will show up in a section of the application menu dedicated to this category. If multiple Main Categories are included in a single desktop entry file, the entry may appear more than once in the menu.

Hence, please add at least one of the following in the Categories= key.

Main Category	Description	Notes
AudioVideo	Application for presenting, creating, or processing multimedia (audio/video)
Audio	An audio application	Desktop entry must include AudioVideo as well
Video	A video application	Desktop entry must include AudioVideo as well
Development	An application for development
Education	Educational software
Game	A game
Graphics	Application for viewing, creating, or processing graphics
Network	Network application such as a web browser
Office	An office type application
Science	Scientific software
Settings	Settings applications	Entries may appear in a separate menu or as part of a "Control Center"
System	System application, "System Tools" such as say a log viewer or network monitor
Utility	Small utility application, "Accessories"

In addition, you could specify one or more from the longer list of Additional Categories.

Please test the result with desktop-file-validate and make sure it passes.

electron-builder offers native support for this since v19.22.1.

Reference: AppImage/appimage.github.io#2

Share IG posts via links

When the url of an IG post is pasted into the message input, it should auto-render it as a post to share. Also when sent, it should in turn share the post the way it is on IG mobile.

View shared IG post within app

A user should be able to view IG posts shared in his inbox. As of now, the posts are only viewable on the browser.

These posts should be viewable within instead. We may also offer options to save the post (locally or on IG)

Videos may also have options to rewind/fast-forward.

Two-Step Authentication login is unhandled

if the account you are trying to login with has 2FA enabled, no response is displayed, and nothing happens.
instead of using private api, you may just load instagram login page, and collect/save the cookies after a successful login.

Url messages

Url messages are now received as unsupported format because they appear are now being formatted to fetch content preview

No support for replies to IG stories

Reply to stories are shown as <unsupported message format>

Images

How does sending images work? i cant seem to do it

view video dms

when a video is received directly as direct message (not shared post), it is displayed as an image instead of a video.

group chats message sender

In group chats, one cannot tell who a message was from

Wrong group messages

sometimes when sending a message to an already existing group on my chat lists, it creates a new chat room and sends the message there. The expected behavior is to send the message to the already existing chat and not create a new one

View DM Request

On mobile, users you don't follow/don't follow you, have to send DM requests before a conversation can begin.

We need to implement a way to view these DM requests on IGdm

software auto-update

Add feature to allow the app to update automatically on availability of new version

Add "report an Issue" menu

This could be added under the "help" menu item.

It could be labelled: "Report an issue"
and link to here ---> https://github.com/ifedapoolarewaju/igdm/issues/new for starters

i cant see pictures on my windows 7

it wont show picture

Close modal view on 'ESC'

when the escape button is pressed, the modal view displayed when viewing "unfollowers" and "images" as seen below should be closed

modal view example

cant login

i type my correct user and passcode and wont work

Not opening on my windows

When i run the igdm setup, it asks me if i want to run it and i click "run". then nothing happens after that.

hide or show "seen" flags

there should be configurable options to allow users to enable or disable "seen" flags on messages they receive.

Window Resize On Resize Not Working

Using Ubuntu 17.10
IGDM 2.2.

Cannot resize window. It's far too large. It does not fit on my screen. Resize is locked.
https://imgur.com/a/9jIOu
^screenshot^

Discovering this project of yours made me very happy. Props to you, mate.

autoUpdater not working on windows

The version autoUpdater doesn't seem to be working on windows 10

Formatting of messages

The app is not formatting line breaks properly.
Also unable to compose multiline messages.
Copying and pasting from notepad breaks the formatting too.

Thanks for the great app

Support for multiple accounts

Would be awesome if it could save up credentials and let the user switch quickly between accounts. Thank you very much

slack style emoji shortcuts

On slack, when a text starts with : it kicks in an emoji search that matches the subsequent texts. It'd be nice something of sort.

texts aren't visible

i cant see any of my texts unless i send someone something so i cant know if someone messaged me unless i send them a text and it becomes visible ,so it'd be nice to know how i could fix that if its somehow my mistake or if u could fix that because they haven't been showing up for about a week or so.
thxx xx

Error: connect EACCES 31.13.90.52:443

cant log in with my password to IG:dm for Desktop

Export followers as csv

as user I would like to be able to download my list of followers as a .csv

Reduce the padding in between the messages so they fill more white space

One suggestion Maybe to just increasing the character limit per line to let them stack similar to iMessage threads

Only shows 20 contacts on the left

I can only access 20 contacts on the left and not the older messages. On the Instagram app, you can keep scrolling down and it will load older messages. Thank you.

send media

Users should be able to send images/videos to recipients.

Grid view for unfollowers list

Make unfollowers list display as grid to make better use of space and minimize scrolling.

Login issue on linux AppImage

On linux, when trying to login, the following error occurs:

A JavaScript error occurred in the main process

Uncaught Exception:
Error: EROFS: read-only file system, unlink '/tmp/.mount_uABPtV/usr/bin/resources/app/cookies/.keep'
at Error (native)
at Object.fs.unlinkSync (fs.js:1099:18)
at files.forEach (/tmp/.mount_uABPtV/usr/bin/resources/app/igdm.js:29:8)
at Array.forEach (native)
at Object.exports.login (/tmp/.mount_uABPtV/usr/bin/resources/app/igdm.js:28:9)
at EventEmitter.electron.ipcMain.on (/tmp/.mount_uABPtV/usr/bin/resources/app/main.js:106:8)
at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:191:7)
at WebContents. (/tmp/.mount_uABPtV/usr/bin/resources/electron.asar/browser/api/web-contents.js:222:13)
at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
at WebContents.emit (events.js:191:7)

There's a similar issue here.

Maybe we shouldn't store the session file for linux users or there should be options to set a path to where session data should be stored.