Updating Facebook status using Python

I found this article on updating your Facebook status using PHP but since PHP is flawed by design and is a pain to use, here's the code for a Python version. Much cleaner to read and all the components you needed are installed when you install Python.

# Facebook Status Updater                                                      
# by Rudolf Olah <omouse@gmail.com>                                            
# Licensed under the Do-Whatever-You-Want-With-This license                    
import urllib2, re, sys                                                        
if len (sys.argv) < 4:                                                         
  print 'USAGE: python %s email password status' % sys.argv[0]                 
  sys.exit (1)                                                                 
email = sys.argv[1]                                                            
password = sys.argv[2]                                                         
status = sys.argv[3]                                                           
opener = urllib2.build_opener (urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor ())                 
urllib2.install_opener (opener)                                                
loginRequest = urllib2.Request ('https://login.facebook.com/login.php?m&nex\
t=http%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com%2Fhome.php',                                     
    'email=%s&pass=%s&login=Login' % (email, password))                        
                                                                               
urllib2.urlopen (loginRequest)                                                 
connection = urllib2.urlopen ('http://m.facebook.com/')                        
                                                                               
form_id = re.findall ('name="post_form_id" value="(\w+)"',                     
    connection.read ())[0]                                                     
print form_id                                                                  
print 'Changing status to "%s"' % status                                       
statusRequest = urllib2.Request ('http://m.facebook.com/home.php',             
    'post_form_id=%s&status=%s&update=Update' % (form_id, status))             
connection = opener.open (statusRequest)                                       
print 'All done :)'

Documentation for the urllib2, re and sys modules is available at python.org.

Enjoy!

edit: this version works for sure.

Comments

[omouse]

Ugh, I need to test things more often. I just tried the script again and the URLs are wrong I think. I'll try this again tomorrow.

[omouse]

Ok, I just edited the post and it has the correct code. Here's a two-line shell script to quicken things.

is.sh

#!/bin/bash
python /file/location/fbstatus.py myemail@gmail.com password "$*"

Change the permissions of the file: chmod a+x is.sh

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