COMMENT_MYSPACE(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation COMMENT_MYSPACE(1)NAMEcomment_myspace - Leave a comment for your Myspace friends
VERSION
Version 0.03
SYNOPSIS
usage: comment_myspace ( -m message | -f filename ) [-y] [-d] [-i] [-r]
[-n max_count] [-u username -p password] [-c cache_file]
[friendID ...]
Simple script to leave a comment for each of our friends using the
WWW::Myspace::Comment Perl module. By default, it will leave a maximum
of 50 comments (see the -n option below), then exit displaying a
message containing the result code returned from the post_comments
method (DONE, COUNTER, or CAPTCHA). "perldoc WWW::Myspace::Comment" for
more info.
-m message
Post "message" to the friends' page (beware shell escapes!)
-f filename
Read the account, password, and message from filename. The file
must contain the username on the first line, the password on the
second line, and the message starting on the third line, like this:
joe@somewhere.com
ILike2havelongpasswords
Just stopping by to say hi!
- Joe
The above will set username to "joe@somewhere.com", the password to
"ILike2havelongpasswords", and the message to:
Just stopping by to say hi!
- Joe
All characters are safe when passing comments this way, and you can
also pass HTML in the message. Note that myspace does allow users
to strip HTML from comments, so make sure your stripped message is
still readable.
-y Yes mode: Don't ask for confirmation, just do it. (careful!!!)
This is for cron jobs, but normally you should use the confirmation
to make sure the shell hasn't munged your message and that the
friend count and exclusion count look ok before you go send stuff
you didn't want to people you didn't want to...
-d Inserts a random delay before running. Do this is you're running
the script from crontab to make it look more like a human.
-i Ignore Duplicates. If the -i flag is passed, comment_myspace will
not check the profile page for duplciate comments, it will just
post.
-r Reset the exclusions file. comment_myspace remembers who it has
commented before and won't comment them again. Using the -r flag
resets this list (maybe I should call it -f for "forget?" :) Use
this if you want to post a new comment to people and you don't care
if you've commented them before. Note that unless you use the -i
flag also, comment_myspace will still skip profiles on which it
sees your profile link already.
The reset is done -before- commenting begins.
-n max_count
Only post max_count comments. This defaults to 50 in
WWW::Myspace::Comment as of this writing. Setting a value here
will pass it to the WWW::Myspace::Comment object. This is mostly
useful for posting fewer than 50 comments at a time, since Myspace
won't let you post more than that without giving you a CAPTCHA.
-u username
Use "username" as the username when logging in
-p password
Use this password to log in (must be provided if -u is used
friendID
Post to this (or these) friendIDs only
-c cache_file
Use "cache_file" as the file to store/read the list of friends
we've commented. As comments are left, the status of the post will
be written to this file. If you don't provide this, the default
cache_file will be used. See WWW::Myspace::Comment for details.
Examples
Post to only two friends (will prompt for username
and password):
comment -m 'Merry Christmas\!\!\!' 370234 275034
Post "Happy New Year!!!" to all our friends (will prompt for username
and password):
comment -m 'Happy New Year\!\!\!'
Post to all Joe's friends using "joe@somewhere.com"'s account:
comment -m 'Just saying hi' -u joe@somewhere.com -p FooBar92
Known Issues / To Do
CAPTCHA: MySpace.com allows 53 or 55 posts before requiring a CATCHA
response, then allows 3 before requiring it agian. Not sure what the
timeout is on this (12 hours?).
Note that the evolving point of leaving comments is to make sure that
we're linked to from as many pages as possible, and mentioned on as
many pages as possible. We want to appear to "be everywhere". Since we
can only post to about 50 pages a day, we maximize our exposure by
checking each page we're going to post on to see if we're already there
and skipping it if we are.
To Do:
- Provide a CGI interface so band members can coordinate and type in the
CAPTCHA code. Interface would act as a relay: for each person we'd
auto-post to, display the filled in comment form and have them customize
it and/or fill in the captcha code. Could run in semi-automatic mode
where it'd only display the page for them if it got a code request.
perl v5.20.2 2008-06-19 COMMENT_MYSPACE(1)
