Instagram supports marking messages as read, and chats as read or unread, through the messaging endpoints.

Mark a message as read

To mark a message as read, use Read a Message and provide the chat ID together with the message ID.

await messagingApi.readMessage({
  path: {
    account_id: "acc_123456789",
    chat_id: "chat_id",
    message_id: "message_id",
  },
});

messaging_api.read_message(
    "chat_id",
    "message_id",
    "acc_123456789",
)

curl --request POST \
     --url https://api.unipile.com/v2/account_id/chats/chat_id/messages/message_id/read \
     --header 'accept: application/json'

Mark a chat as read

To mark a chat as read, use Update a Chat and set read_status to true.

await messagingApi.updateChat({
  path: {
    account_id: "acc_123456789",
    chat_id: "chat_id",
  },
  body: {
    read_status: true,
  },
});

messaging_api.update_chat(
    "chat_id",
    "acc_123456789",
    {"read_status": True},
)

curl --request PATCH \
     --url https://api.unipile.com/v2/account_id/chats/chat_id \
     --header 'accept: application/json' \
     --header 'content-type: application/json' \
     --data '{"read_status":true}'

Mark a chat as unread

To mark a chat as unread, use Update a Chat and set read_status to false.

await messagingApi.updateChat({
  path: {
    account_id: "acc_123456789",
    chat_id: "chat_id",
  },
  body: {
    read_status: false,
  },
});

messaging_api.update_chat(
    "chat_id",
    "acc_123456789",
    {"read_status": False},
)

curl --request PATCH \
     --url https://api.unipile.com/v2/account_id/chats/chat_id \
     --header 'accept: application/json' \
     --header 'content-type: application/json' \
     --data '{"read_status":false}'

Realtime event

To receive read receipts in real time, configure a webhook and listen to message.receipt.read.