Using phantomjs to post status update into facebook
Just a proof of concept while playing around with phantomjs
var page = new WebPage();
//spoof it as opera mini, to get the mobile page working properly
page.settings.userAgent = "Opera/9.80 (J2ME/MIDP; Opera Mini/6.5.26955/27.1407; U; en) Presto/2.8.119 Version/11.10";
function doLogin(){
page.evaluate(function(){
var frm = document.getElementById("login_form");
frm.elements["email"].value = "--enter-your-email--";
frm.elements["pass"].value = "--enter-your-password--";
frm.submit();
});
}
function doUpdateStatus(){
page.evaluate(function(){
var form = document.getElementById("composer_form");
form.elements["status"].value = "--write-down-your-status-message--";
form.submit();
});
}
page.onLoadFinished = function(status){
console.log( (!phantom.state ? "no-state" : phantom.state) + ": " + status );
if(status === "success"){
if( !phantom.state ){
doLogin();
phantom.state = "logged-in";
} else if(phantom.state === "logged-in"){
doUpdateStatus();
phantom.state = "status-updated";
} else if(phantom.state === "status-updated"){
phantom.exit();
}
}
};
page.onConsoleMessage = function (message){
console.log("msg: " + message);
};
page.open("http://m.facebook.com");
Written by Arief Bayu Purwanto
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2 Responses
Very useful. Thanks.
I haven't managed to find any proper source code demonstrating how to use PhantomJS.
This helps a lot.
over 1 year ago
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the code doesn't cope with the actual posting mechanism used by Facebook today, but nonetheless it is a valuable code piece, as demonstration on using phantomjs
over 1 year ago
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