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Hacking Facebook “Like & Win” competition

July 9th, 2011 No Comments »

 

Yappy,

I just won a price by "Liking" a page on facebook "Like & Win" competition

Actually some company announced that they will give free gifts to the 2000th and 2011th users, who like their facebook page.

So what I did was simple,  I just made a python script (that's not hacking, just power of programming) to win that price and start that script to check the page status and alert me when page like is near 1998-1999 🙂


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01import urllib2,time,winsound
02from HTMLParser import HTMLParser 
03 
04class MyHTMLParser(HTMLParser):
05 
06  def __init__(self):
07    HTMLParser.__init__(self)
08    self.recording = 0
09    self.data = []
10  def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
11    if tag == 'div':
12        for name, value in attrs:
13            if name == 'id' and value == 'profile_header':
14                #print "Encountered the beginning of a %s tag" % tag
15                self.recording = 1
16                break
17 
18 
19  def handle_endtag(self, tag):
20    if tag == 'div':
21      self.recording -=1
22      #print "Encountered the end of a %s tag" % tag
23 
24  def handle_data(self, data):
25    if self.recording:
26      self.data.append(data)
27 
28var = 1
29print "Checking current likes (remember 2000th and 2011th will get the price):"
30while var == 1 :
31    print "......"
32    p = MyHTMLParser()
33    f = urllib2.urlopen('http://www.facebook.com/pages/Some_URL_for_like_and_win')
34    html = f.read()
35    p.feed(html)
36    #print p.data
37    print p.data[4];
38    string=p.data[4];
39    if string.startswith( '1,999' ):
40        winsound.PlaySound("SystemExclamation", winsound.SND_ALIAS)
41        print "Check the page and get the price"
42    p.close()
43    print "Sleeping for 5 minutes"
44    time.sleep(300)

Change this URL to the URL of your choice [http://www.facebook.com/pages/Some_URL_for_like_and_win]

Please note I am NOT responsible if that company sues you for cheating & for using programming skills in competition 🙂

Aloha