LazyBook | Facebook Automated Birthday Wisher and Data Collection Tool

by cfifty Python Version: Current License: MIT

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LazyBook is a Python library. LazyBook has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has build file available, it has a Permissive License and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

LazyBook is an automated Facebook birthday wisher and data collection tool written in Python 2.7. It utilizes your Facebook login credentials to collect information from your friends' profiles via web scraping. While I originally intended to leverage Facebook's API to collect this information, this functionality was depreciated from Facebook's graph API in 2014. Ever since I was a young boy, I wanted my friends to realize how much I care and treasure our friendship. Last year with the power and utility of an introduction to data structures class under my belt, I set off to help my 800+ Facebook friends realize the depths of our friendship by automatically wishing them a happy birthday. Much to my chagrin, Stack Overflow said this task was impossible - BASH scripts previously written using Facebook's API no longer worked. But I've always preferred to see no or "that's impossible" as a challenge rather than an answer. During my journey to develop an automated Facebook birthday wisher, I realized that we can accomplish so much more than simply wishing people a happy birthday. For example, the getSingle.py file collects a list of your friends who list single as their relationship status. unfriendCheck.py compiles a list of friends who you are no longer friends with (updated each month). I encourage you to expand on the examples I provide and open pull requests with your contributions. After all, we're all in need of a poke-war bot.

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LazyBook is licensed under the MIT License. This license is Permissive.

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Combine birthday dates .
Get a listing of our friends .
Combine Facebook friends .
Extract birthdays from friends dict
Create a session .
Get a list of all friends from a string
Check the existence of the friends list
get friends list
Create a bunch of birthday wishes .

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Install LazyBook

This script is fairly straight forward - all it requires is the installation of several common python libraries (Beautiful Soup, etc.) each of which can be installed with a single line in your terminal. I've also included the code to set up a scheduled task: all you need to do is load and launch it. Lastly, I apologize for only including a tutorial macOS. A windows tutorial is on my TODO list, and if you're running a linux OS, then you probably don't need a tutorial anyway.
Open org.lazybook.birthday.plist in your favorite text editor and change "YOUR_USERNAME_HERE" to your mac user account name (the one that appears when you type in echo $USER or whoami in your terminal.
Copy org.lazybook.birthday.plist
Navigate to ~Library/LaunchAgents/ in finder (this may require to unhide the Library folder in your settings)
Paste org.lazybook.birthday.plist into this directory
Open your terminal and navigate to ~/Library/LaunchAgents
Load your script into the macOS task scheduler by typing "launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/org.lazybook.birthday.plist" in your terminal
Start your script by typing "launchctl start org.lazybook.birthday" into the terminal
After step 6, the task scheduler will immediately wish your friends a happy birthday, and then once again every 24 hours until you stop it
You can view the status of your task by typing launchctl list | grep birthday
To stop the automated task (and thereby the python script from running), navigate to ~Library/LaunchAgents/ in your terminal and type launchctl remove org.lazybook.birthday
Helpful Resource for starting tasks
Helpful Resource for stopping tasks