in reply to Re: WWW::Mechanize and Facebook login
in thread WWW::Mechanize and Facebook login

I have successfully got LWP to login. This seems to work well: (at least the login stuff)

http://mattdanger.net/code/facebook-status/facebook-status.pl

Your going to need Crypt::SSLeay installed though. 
use strict;
use CGI;

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Re^3: WWW::Mechanize and Facebook login
by budman (Sexton) on Apr 27, 2009 at 06:39 UTC
    Hi, I know this is an older thread, but thought it may help others. Here is a sample using Mechanize - you do need the Crypt::SSLeay module installed for it to work. 
    use strict;
use WWW::Mechanize;
use HTTP::Cookies;

my $url = "http://www.facebook.com";
my $appurl = "http://apps.facebook.com/inthemafia";

my $username = 'your@email';
my $password = 'yourpass';

my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();
$mech->cookie_jar(HTTP::Cookies->new());
$mech->get($url);
$mech->form_name('menubar_login');
$mech->field(email => $username);
$mech->field(pass => $password);
$mech->click();
my $facebook_content = $mech->content();
# go to an app url
$mech->get($appurl);
my $app_content = $mech->content();
print "$app_content\n";

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[d/l]
      I wrote something very similar to this, but it seems fb has changed how they let people login.. any updates?
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