Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 10:54 pm Post subject: libwww-perl MySpace
A couple days ago I got started programming a module called Net::MySpace. It's going to be a Perl interface to MySpace, and will only use standard modules (mainly, LWP).
The primary reason is that the other MySpace module that exists, WWW::MySpace, requires tons and tons of unstandard modules to be installed, and actually, I've never been able to get them all (nor have a couple other Perl coders I know).
This isn't entirely related to bots (unless somebody wants to be the first to create a MySpace chatterbot!), but I've been seeing ads on here about "MySpace BOT" which is a program to do all kinds of automatic things on MySpace... but, it's not a freeware program.
So when I finish this module (only have a couple MySpace features to incorporate, like private messages and stuff), I may upload it to Bot-Depot if anyone's interested.
But so far, here's what the module can do:
Code:
Sign in to MySpace
Scan your homepage to find:
-- Your Username
-- Your FriendID
-- Your new notifications (Friend Requests, Comments, etc. etc.)
-- Find new students notifications
Get your pending friend requests
-- Approve and deny them
Get the bulletins pages
-- Post new bulletins
-- Delete posted bulletins
-- Read other peoples' bulletins
Get users' Friends Lists
Get users' comments pages
-- Post comments on peoples' MySpaces
Scan users' profiles to find:
-- Their Username
-- Their Headline
-- Their Profile URL
-- Their age, gender, and location
-- Their Details (status, orientation, body type, religion, education, etc.)
So like I said, the things I still intend to make it do, is handle private messages, and maybe to search for other profiles (or maybe to update its own profile, that'd be helpful too I guess).
Anyway, I'm done bragging for now. _________________ Current Site (2008) http://www.cuvou.com/
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Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:09 am Post subject:
The reason WWW::Myspace is hard to work with is because it uses: WWW::Mechanize;. Its a cool module that posts forms without you having to know all the hidden form vars clicks on links even if they change. It also understands like JavaScript redirects and things like that.
There is a win32 version: Win32::IE::Mechanize.
WWW::Myspace was pretty simple to install and use on Linux and I used it to write a myspace bot to auto add people for a band.. and auto accept when people added them. It also made a comment post thanking them for the add.
I think you should change your module name to something like WWW::MySpaceLWP NET:: something assumes it has to do with networking not some sort of web parser/automater. _________________ [ matt ]
Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 556 Location: Los Angeles, CA votes: 1
Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:24 am Post subject:
Which brings me to my next point..... MySpace has a new messenger client: [url] http://collect.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=im.download [/url] which from sniffing...is a very simple protocol basically a key value pair separated by /s. The only problem for now is figuring out the challenge reply. I have started a simple module.. (minus the chl) to parse the buddy list, and should get/send messages. Im trying to get some help now to crack the chl.
This IMO should be something like NET::MySpace since it would be the MySpace protocol. _________________ [ matt ]
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