Comments on: automating facebook

By: myuu

myuu — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:32:42 +0000

hmm, my original scripts still work. guess we’ll see what happens.

By: Shanti Braford

Shanti Braford — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:52:11 +0000

Hey guys, glad you enjoyed the tutorial.

Sadly, Facebook changed their login mechanism to subvert attempts at automated login like this.

I’m sure there’s a way around it, but haven’t played with it much yet.

http://shanti.railsblog.com/fsx-trader-broken-due-to-facebook-login-changes

If you figure out a way to automate Facebook logins using ruby, drop me a line & I’ll update some posts. shantibraford @ gmail

Cheers!

By: myuu

myuu — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:18:35 +0000

i’ve no idea honestly. never touched Ruby before this.

the original post is hosted on some sort of Rails blog community; maybe it would work as it is.

hope it works out for you.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:02:32 +0000

Thanks

And will this work on Rails? I could most likely run it on my Mac as that’s (some form of) BSD but its a laptop! Much rather run it on my server. Will Rails understand the script?

By: myuu

myuu — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 02:04:06 +0000

sure, here’s the url:-

http://www.bangsar.net/ruby/mechanize_wb_alch.rb

you’ll need to add your email and password on line 55.
and mind you, this script will log you off Facebook.

as for starting with Ruby, i guess you’ll have to install Ruby first, then install Mechanize and stuff as per the original tutorial. i use FreeBSD, so i can install both from /usr/ports/www/rubygem-mechanize. might be a bit more tedious on windows…

By: Richard V

Richard V — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:46:21 +0000

Hey man, do you have that script to hand for casting Alchemy? I’m very new to Ruby and I really don’t know where to start!