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update-facebook-friends

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NAME

update_facebook_friends - monitors changes in a Facebook account's friends list

SYNOPSIS

update_facebook_friends [-a account] [-h html_page] [-s store_dir]

DESCRIPTION

This program helps monitor your list of friends for changes. Each time you add a friend on Facebook, add their full name to your waiting.txt to find out when you've been accepted. All changes are logged.

The program works by parsing the HTML page of your Friends list, so you simply browse to your complete list, save it to disk, and run this program on it.

Another similar program in this package, update-facebook-friends-api, performs the same monitoring tasks but via the Facebook API. However, the usefulness of the API is severely limited by Facebook's privacy preferences, particular for applications such as this which works with fine-grained data.

OPTIONS

-a account: The login email address for this account.
-h html_path: The path to the HTML page of friends (the full list). While logged in, browse to http://facebook.com/friends.php, save the page, and point html_path to this saved page.
-s store_dir: The directory to use for storing persistent data, instead of $FACEBOOK_DIR and $HOME/.facebook. Subdirectories for each Facebook account are created here, each with its own files: active, waiting, and log.

ENVIRONMENT

FACEBOOK_ACCOUNT: The login email address of the Facebook account.
FACEBOOK_DIR: The directory to use for storing persistent data.

TODO

BUGS

None

AUTHOR

Yang Zhang

WWW

http://assorted.sf.net/facebook-tools - homepage and documentation

http://assorted.sf.net/facebook-tools/download - latest releases here

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Time: 03:47:56 GMT, March 24, 2007