Global typing indicator

[pcktm]

Messenger delivers information on who's currently typing over WebSocket regardless of whether you're in that conversation or not. Currently I get this information using Puppeteer and its client.on('Network.webSocketFrameReceived', (...) but it's far from ideal and not handy at all. Is it possible for Caprine to feature such functionality (a small bubble or something saying that John Smith is typing, perhaps)?

[pcktm]

I researched for a while and I think this might be achieved using Electron debugger and Network.webSocketFrameReceived method.

My code that gets typing user ID:

var payload = Buffer.from(response.payloadData, 'base64').toString('utf8').substring(4);
if(payload.match(/^\/orca_typing_notifications/)) {
 var typingPerson = JSON.parse(payload.substring(26));
}

The typingPerson object looks like this:

//Started typing
{ type: 'typ', sender_fbid: 100006852854461, state: 1 } 

//Stopped typing
{ type: 'typ', sender_fbid: 100006852854461, state: 0 } 

[CvX]

I’ll defer to @sindresorhus here, but it may be out of scope for Caprine. The app mostly focuses on providing privacy improvements and integrating with the OS, and that feature doesn’t fit in those categories. Though I see how it could be useful for some!

[sindresorhus]

Sounds like a cool feature, but I don't really want to maintain more features. Messenger.com keeps breaking our stuff and there are not enough community contributions to fix things.

[dusansimic]

This sound like a feature available on the iOS app to me. It would be cool if someone contributes but as Sindre said, we don't plan on maintaining any new major features ourselves since Messenger breaks their stuff all the time which we need to fix. The implementation whoever would be closely tied to proposed solutions for the notifications and privacy options issues #1503 (comment). Monitoring websocket packets with some kind of a proxy object would allow us to gather information for notifications, block seen and typing indicators and create a global typing indicator.