Barattalo

I’ve found this great mini bot from Alste blog, and I’ve decided to add it to the mini bot class. This bot uses curl to connect to facebook mobile (m.facebook.com) and perform the login. Then it saves the cookies received from mobile facebook and go to the facebook mobile homepage where it sets the status making a post.
I’ve tried to make the same thing with the normal facebook, but it didn’t work. I think that mobile facebook is simpler and easier to make bots working. I’ve added this bot to the Mini Bot PHP class.

	//
	// change Facebook status with curl
	// Thanks to Alste (curl stuff inspired by nexdot.net/blog)
	public function setFacebookStatus($status, $login_email, $login_pass) {
		$debug = false;
		//CURL stuff
		//This executes the login procedure
		$ch = curl_init();
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://login.facebook.com/login.php?m&next=http%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com%2Fhome.php');
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'email=' . urlencode($login_email) . '&pass=' . urlencode($login_pass) . '&login=' . urlencode("Log in"));
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
		//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "my_cookies.txt");
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "my_cookies.txt");
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
		//make sure you put a popular web browser here (signature for your web browser can be retrieved with 'echo $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];'
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.12) Gecko/2009070611 Firefox/3.0.12");
		curl_exec($ch);

		//This executes the status update
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 0);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://m.facebook.com/home.php');
		$page = curl_exec($ch);

		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
		//this gets the post_form_id value
		preg_match("/input type=\"hidden\" name=\"post_form_id\" value=\"(.*?)\"/", $page, $form_id);
		//we'll also need the exact name of the form processor page
		preg_match("/form action=\"(.*?)\"/", $page, $form_num);

		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'post_form_id=' . $form_id[1] . '&status=' . urlencode($status) . '&update=' . urlencode("Update status"));
		//set url to form processor page
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://m.facebook.com' . $form_num[1]);
		curl_exec($ch);

		if ($debug) {
			//show information regarding the request
			print_r(curl_getinfo($ch));
			echo curl_errno($ch) . '-' . curl_error($ch);
			echo "<br><br>Your Facebook status seems to have been updated.";
		}
		//close the connection
		curl_close($ch);
	}

Tags: bot, cookies, curl, facebook, Spider, webbots