fbStatus

import facebook_status
fb = facebook_status.fbStatus()
fb.change_status('messing around with FB and python')

# This class adds python functions to change your Facebook status message - v0.1
# Copyright (C) 2007  Francois du Toit <bluegraydragon@gmail.com>

# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.

# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.

# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

import os.path, sys, cookielib, urllib2, urllib, re


class fbStatus:

    def __init__(self):
        self.COOKIEFILE = 'cookies.lwp'
        self.urlopen = urllib2.urlopen
        self.cj = cookielib.LWPCookieJar()
        self.Request = urllib2.Request

        if self.cj != None:
            if os.path.isfile(self.COOKIEFILE):
                self.cj.load(self.COOKIEFILE)
            opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(self.cj))
            urllib2.install_opener(opener)

    def get_url(self, url, data=None, headers={'User-agent' : 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0.666b1'}, read=0):
        try:
            req = self.Request(url, data, headers)
            handle = self.urlopen(req)
        except IOError, e:
            print 'We failed to open "%s".' % url
            if hasattr(e, 'code'):
                print 'We failed with error code - %s.' % e.code
            elif hasattr(e, 'reason'):
                print "The error object has the following 'reason' attribute :", e.reason
                print "This usually means the server doesn't exist, is down, or we don't have an internet connection."
                sys.exit()
        else:
            print 'Here are the headers of the page :'
            print handle.code, handle.msg
            #print handle.info()
            if read and handle.code == 200:
                return handle.read()
            else:
                return handle.code

    def change_status(self, email, password, status):

        # log in and get cookies, yum yum
        print 'changing Facebook status message'
        url = 'https://login.facebook.com/login.php?m&amp;next=http%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com%2Fhome.php'
        data = urllib.urlencode({'email': email, 'pass': password, 'login': 'Login'})
        self.get_url(url, data)
        # get post_form_id from page
        url = 'http://m.facebook.com/home.php'
        html = self.get_url(url, read=1)
        try:
            id = re.search('post_form_id" value="([^"]*)"', html).group(1)
        except AttributeError:
            print 'Could not find post_form_id in the page, maybe wrong user/pass?'
            return 10
        print 'Got post_form_id:', id
        # POST status message
        data = urllib.urlencode({'post_form_id':id, 'status': status, 'update':'Update'})
        code = self.get_url(url, data)
        if code == 200:
            print '>>> status successfully changed to: ', status
        else:
            print '>>> got status code:', code
        print
        self.print_cookies()

    def print_cookies(self):
        if self.cj == None:
            print "We don't have a cookie library available - sorry."
            print "I can't show you any cookies."
        else:
            print 'These are the cookies we have received so far :'
            for index, cookie in enumerate(self.cj):
                print index, '  :  ', cookie
            self.cj.save(self.COOKIEFILE)