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Scrape Facebook with CasperJS
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facebook_scraping.coffee
casper = require('casper').create()
casper.start "https://facebook.com", ->
query =
email: 'youremail'
pass: 'yourpass'
@fill "#login_form", query, true
casper.thenOpen 'https://facebook.com/username'
casper.then ->
tryAndScroll = ->
casper.waitFor ->
casper.scrollToBottom()
true
, ->
unless casper.visible '.createdAccountUnit'
tryAndScroll()
tryAndScroll()
casper.then ->
elements = JSON.stringify @getElementsInfo('.userContent')
require('fs').write('user_content.json', elements)
casper.run()
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I'm getting a "Cookies not enabled" error (from the Facebook screenshot) at login. Any idea how to work around this?

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