Using Mechanize gem to automate some tasks on Facebook

Bao_Trung_TSNguyen · February 21, 2013, 12:01pm

Dear friends,
I’ve recently worked with Facebook Automation. I’ve tried Mechanize gem
and
I am able to login into Facebook but I stuck here T.T
I tried to post on facebook but can’t find anyway to do that. Can you
guys
give me any ideas?

This is my source code for login into Facebook:

github.com

alansparrow/learningruby/blob/master/googleinspect.rb

require 'rubygems'
require 'mechanize'

agent = Mechanize.new
page = agent.get('https://facebook.com/')

#puts page.inspect  # inspect facebook main page's elements
#puts page.forms.inspect  # then inspect form elements, these elements will be arranged in an array
fb_form = page.forms[0]  # select 1st form

fb_form.email = '[email protected]'  # fill in email
fb_form.pass = 'yourpassword'  # fill password

#puts fb_form.buttons.inspect  # then inspect button elements, these buttons are also arranged in an array
#puts fb_form.buttons[0].inspect  # Log In is button[0] in button array

#puts fb_form.inspect  # check the form to be submitted if login information is correct

page = agent.submit(fb_form, fb_form.buttons[0])

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(sorry
for the confused file name, it is actually Facebook not Google)

Thank you very much

Bao_Trung_TSNguyen · February 23, 2013, 11:11am

It should just be a matter of finding the elements and setting them
correctly. Exactly what errors are you getting?

Bao_Trung_TSNguyen · February 23, 2013, 12:37pm

Yes, It’s exactly I could not find element for posting on my wall.

2013/2/23 Joel P. [email protected]

Bao_Trung_TSNguyen · February 23, 2013, 2:27pm

On mine it’s text_area, id=u_0_s, name=xhpc_message_text
Depending what browser you’re using you can inspect elements (On Firefox
I use the Firebug extension) and find out all their details. Then you
can use their identifiers to locate them.