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Re: Using Perl Against Facebook - Part II: Status Updates

me — Tue, 11 May 2010 08:18:16 -0000

he i tryed to use your Facebot.pm bu it doesn't work.

i´m new in perl, so could you help me ??
this message I got:

Possible unintended interpolation of @mail in string at fbot.pl line 5.
Name "main::mail" used only once: possible typo at fbot.pl line 5.
Can't exec "del": No such file or directory at Facebot.pm line 37.
mkdir: temp: File exists

Re: Using Perl Against Facebook - Part II: Status Updates

djacobs — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:42:58 -0000

What tweaks?

Re: Using Perl Against Facebook - Part II: Status Updates

Jones — Sun, 24 May 2009 04:37:45 -0000

Well, actually it does wirk ater some tweaking :-)

So number 2) and 4) are striked, while 1) and 3) still hold true.

Re: Using Perl Against Facebook - Part II: Status Updates

Jones — Thu, 21 May 2009 15:37:10 -0000

It doesn't really work :-)
You can, out of the box, log in, and view your name.

The problems are:

1) You have to change the regexp that fetches the post_form_id.

2) It says I have five friends, I have more.

3) Setting the status through the guide does not work, it is missing a range of parameters

4) Setting status does not work in Facebot.pm.
When dumping the contents it says: (ID stuff canged)

for (;;);{"error":0,"errorSummary":"","errorDescription":"","errorIsWarning":false,"payload":{"status":"NEW STATUS TEXT","markup":"NEW STATUS TEXT.","feed":null,"feed_tab":null,"today":1242889200,"today_display":"Today"},"onload":["if (window.Env) { Env[\"nctrlid\"]=\"1223hjsdf121212hdhsdfk\"; }","if (window.Env) { Env[\"nctrlnid\"]=\"\"; }","setCookie(\"made_write_conn\", \"1212121212\", 2000);"],"invalidate_cache":[0]}

And it does not set the status.

If anyone has any ideas on how to

Re: Using Perl Against Facebook - Part II: Status Updates

made. — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:22:11 -0000

Hi Micheal,

yes the script still works fine.
Deleting the temp directory where the web pages cache is being kept.
this will force the bot to renew them.

Re: Using Perl Against Facebook - Part II: Status Updates

Michael Sweeney — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:30:15 -0000

Is the Facebot.pm library still expected to work? I have it in place and it seems to login, but the only results I get back are the "Must be logged in" page. If I provide the wrong credentials it does complain properly.

Re: Using Perl Against Facebook - Part II: Status Updates

made. — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:52:43 -0000

That is really weird. This used to have public access. I have contacted the company and I am awaiting for a response.

I will let you know if something comes up.
If you are in a hurry, drop me an email and I will send it attached.

Re: Using Perl Against Facebook - Part II: Status Updates

Brandon — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:38:01 -0000

I tried using your script from Part 1 but it keeps failing on the line:

$response->content =~ /Incorrect Email/

I saw that you asked if Crypt::SSLeay is installed. I can confirm that it is installed on my machine though just for good measure I tried to install it again. CPAN told me "Crypt::SSLeay is up to date (0.57)." but it still won't work. I even tried to just go ahead and run the above code to update my status but it didn't work.

What is the password necessary for this drop.io page? Since the previous code isn't working I tried to get the Facebot.pm from the above link but it just redirects me to a page that asks for a password and I can't get past that.

Re: Using Perl Against Facebook - Part II: Status Updates

pankaj — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:20:27 -0000

Just got around to d/l'ing and setting it up. Works like a charm!
Thanks very much!!

Re: Using Perl Against Facebook - Part II: Status Updates

made. — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:50:09 -0000

I didn't want to get it so early on the net, but well here it is.
I uploaded the Facebook module on the
http://drop.io/developeronline
Search for the Facebot.pm.

In order to set your status, just do the following..
$user = Facebot::->new("MAIL","PASSWORD");
$user->login;
$user->fbk_set("STATUS","My new status is this...");

That's it. Please provide some feedback when you are done.

Re: Using Perl Against Facebook - Part II: Status Updates

made. — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:22:46 -0000

If by the new UI you mean the "new.facebook.com" then yes, the code refers to that one. Have you encountered any problems?

Re: Using Perl Against Facebook - Part II: Status Updates

pankaj — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 06:30:07 -0000

yup, I mean new.facebook.com - was able to login but not set the
status. tried hacking around with it really late at night but wasn't
able to get it working.

Re: Using Perl Against Facebook - Part II: Status Updates

pankaj — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:20:00 -0000

Any chance that your script works with the new FB UI or is this based on the old UI?
Cheers