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Created February 17, 2010 14:08
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facebook-login.sh
#!/bin/bash
# If it redirects to http://www.facebook.com/login.php at the end, wait a few minutes and try again
EMAIL='YOUR_EMAIL' # edit this
PASS='YOUR_PASSWORD' # edit this
COOKIES='cookies.txt'
USER_AGENT='Firefox/3.5'
curl -X GET 'https://www.facebook.com/home.php' --verbose --user-agent $USER_AGENT --cookie $COOKIES --cookie-jar $COOKIES --location # redirects to https://login.facebook.com/login.php
curl -X POST 'https://login.facebook.com/login.php' --verbose --user-agent $USER_AGENT --data-urlencode "email=${EMAIL}" --data-urlencode "pass=${PASS}" --cookie $COOKIES --cookie-jar $COOKIES
curl -X GET 'https://www.facebook.com/home.php' --verbose --user-agent $USER_AGENT --cookie $COOKIES --cookie-jar $COOKIES
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@31eet, how did you manage to login successfully? I tried this recently and it does not work. I am redirected to the login page

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