Re^2: WWW::Mechanize and Facebook login

[davidov0009]

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.

[budman]

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";

[Anonymous Monk]

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