An old script that used to Auto Poke people on Facebook, doesn't work anymore, since their new design

facebook-poke.py

# User information
user   = "" ## Your Facebook email address
passwd = "" ## Your Facebook password

## Edit below this line if you want to

# Import some libraries
import cookielib, urllib, urllib2
import sys, re, time

cj = cookielib.CookieJar()
opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(cj))

def request(url, post_vars = None, headers = False):
	""" Simple wrapper to run a http request """
	global opener

	# post params
	if post_vars is None:
		post = None
		ctype = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'

	else:
		post = urllib.urlencode(post_vars)
		ctype = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'

	# headers
	if headers is False:
		if post is None:
			length = 0
		else:
			length = str(len(post))

		headers = {
			'Host': 'www.facebook.com',
			'Content-Type': ctype,
			'Content-Length': length,

			# Fake a browser
			'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008121623 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.5',
			'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',
			'Accept-Language': 'en-us,en;q=0.5',
			'Accept-Charset': 'ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7',
			'Keep-Alive': '300',
			'Connection': 'keep-alive',
			'Referer': 'http://www.facebook.com/'
		}

	# run the request
	req = urllib2.Request(url, post, headers)
	return opener.open(req).read()

# Let's poke some people
if __name__ == "__main__":
	request( "http://www.facebook.com" ) # start cookie
	response = request( "https://login.facebook.com/login.php", { 'email': user, 'pass': passwd } ) # login

	while 1:
		# Search for pokes
		pokefinder = re.compile('>([^<]*)</a> - <a href="\/poke\.php\?id=([\d]*)\&pokeback=1"')
		pokes = pokefinder.findall(response)

		post_form_id = re.compile('post_form_id=([^&]*)')
		post_form_id = post_form_id.findall(response)
		post_form_id = post_form_id[0]

		if len(pokes) == 0:
			print "No pokes."
		else:
			# Poke people back
			for poke in pokes:
				print "Poking %s (%i)" % (poke[0], int(poke[1]))
				request( "http://www.facebook.com/poke.php", {
					'id': poke[1],
					'uid': poke[1],
					'confirmed': 1,
					'pokeback': 1,
					'post_form_id': post_form_id,
					'post_form_id_source': 'AsyncRequest',
				} )