from fbchat import Client
from fbchat.models import *
client = Client('<username>', '<password>')
print('Own id: {}'.format(client.uid))
client.send(Message(text='Hi me!'), thread_id='clientname', thread_type=ThreadType.USER)
client.logout()
The code sample above is what I got from a tutorial online, the program is able to login to Facebook messenger and tell me my user id. Then I added in a client.send to see if it actually sends a message using facebook messenger to one of my contacts but then i get this in IDLE. Can anybody provide solutions for this issue?
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Users/User/Desktop/Python/fbchat trial.py", line 10, in <module>
client.send(Message(text='Hi me!'), thread_id='User', thread_type=ThreadType.USER)
File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\fbchat\client.py", line 955, in send
return self._doSendRequest(data)
File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\fbchat\client.py", line 923, in _doSendRequest
j = self._post(self.req_url.SEND, data, fix_request=True, as_json=True)
File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\fbchat\client.py", line 128, in _post
raise e
File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\fbchat\client.py", line 124, in _post
return check_request(r, as_json=as_json)
File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\fbchat\utils.py", line 193, in check_request
raise FBchatFacebookError('Error when sending request: Got {} response'.format(r.status_code), request_status_code=r.status_code)
fbchat.models.FBchatFacebookError: Error when sending request: Got 500 response
You may need to try this. I think your thread_id is wrong.
client.send(Message(text='Hi me!'), thread_id=client.uid, thread_type=ThreadType.USER)