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[euroiplayer]

Hello everyone,
I been trying to figure this out but haven't been able to.

Is it possible to get the content on somebody's [b]private[/b] myspace comments profile if you're one of their friends.
I am thinking it would first login to myspace, and then read the comments of that profile.

Tell me is it possible, and if so with what, php or perl..?

[B34ST]

I am not sure about the login part but if u simply want to grab the data from another site you could use the file_get_contents() command.

[euroiplayer]

Yes true, but thats not what I was exactly looking for :)

Anybody knows how to do this (any info would be great help)?

[utexas_pjm]

I think what you're proposing is possible using curl.  You can post user credentials and then visit the site, parse the comments and present them as you'd like.

[euroiplayer]

There is soo little information on cURL, and I don't know a thing about it.

Does anybody know how to go on about this?

Is this useful in any way of what I am trying to do?
[quote]
curl -A 'ELinks/0.9.2 (textmode; Linux; 80x24)'
--trace-ascii /tmp/trace -L -b cookies.txt -c
cookies.txt -d
'email=xxxx%40gmail.com&password=xxxxx&Submit22.x=0&Submit22.y=0'
http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=login.process [/quote]

[utexas_pjm]

Below is a small class I used to parse new messages, friend requests, and comments.  You should be able to use the connect method for what you're trying to do.  Once logged in you can go to any page you wish and parse the results.

[code]
<?php

define(LOGIN_URL,         'http://collect.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=login.process');
define(SESSION_URL,     'http://home.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user');
define(DESTINATION_URL,           '');
define(MESSAGE_FLAG,           '<div id="indicatorMail" class="show indicator">');
define(COMMENT_FLAG,           '<div id="indicatorComments" class="show indicator">');
define(IMAGE_COMMENT_FLAG,  '<div id="indicatorImageComments" class="show indicator">');
define(FRIEND_FLAG,       '<div id="indicatorFriendRequest" class="show indicator">');
define(BLOG_COMMENTS_FLAG, '<div  id="indicatorBlogComments" class="show indicator">');


class MyspaceConnection
{

var $email;
var $password;
var $curlObject;
var $postData;
var $agent;
var $collectHeader;
var $homeHeader;
var $addHeader;
var $htmlOut;

    function MyspaceConnection($email, $password)
    {
    $this->email = $email;
    $this->password     = $password;
    $this->postData       = "email={$this->email}&password={$this->password}";
    $this->curlObject       = curl_init();
    $this->agent = $_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"];
    $this->collectHeader     = array("Host: collect.myspace.com", "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded", "Content-Length: " . strlen($this->postData));
    $this->homeHeader   = array("Host: home.myspace.com");
    $this->addHeader     = array("Host: collect.myspace.com");
    }
   
    function connect()
    {
    curl_setopt($this->curlObject, CURLOPT_URL, LOGIN_URL);
    curl_setopt($this->curlObject, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
    curl_setopt($this->curlObject, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 0);
    curl_setopt($this->curlObject, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

    curl_setopt($this->curlObject, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, 'cookie.txt');
    curl_setopt($this->curlObject, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, 'cookie.txt');
    curl_setopt($this->curlObject, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $this->collectHeader);
    curl_setopt($this->curlObject, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
    curl_setopt($this->curlObject, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $this->agent);
    curl_setopt($this->curlObject, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $this->postData);
    $collectOut = curl_exec($this->curlObject);

    curl_setopt($this->curlObject, CURLOPT_URL, SESSION_URL);
    curl_setopt($this->curlObject, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
    curl_setopt($this->curlObject, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 0);
    curl_setopt($this->curlObject, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($this->curlObject, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, 'cookie.txt');
    curl_setopt($this->curlObject, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $this->homeHeader);
    curl_setopt($this->curlObject, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $this->agent);
    $this->htmlOut = curl_exec($this->curlObject);
    $homeOut = curl_exec($this->curlObject);

    curl_setopt($this->curlObject, CURLOPT_URL, DESTINATION_URL);
    curl_setopt($this->curlObject, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
    curl_setopt($this->curlObject, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 0);
    curl_setopt($this->curlObject, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($this->curlObject, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, 'cookie.txt');
    curl_setopt($this->curlObject, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $this->addHeader);
    curl_setopt($this->curlObject, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $this->agent);
    $data['add'] = curl_exec($this->curlObject);
   
    $file = fopen("cookie.txt", "w+");
    fclose($file);
   
    return true;
    }
   
    function disconnect()
    {
    curl_close($this->curlObject);
    }
   
    function hasNewMessages()
    {
    return (strstr($this->htmlOut, MESSAGE_FLAG) !== false);
    }
   
    function hasNewComments()
    {
    return (strstr($this->htmlOut, COMMENT_FLAG) !== false);
    }
   
    function hasNewImageComments()
    {
    return (strstr($this->htmlOut, IMAGE_COMMENT_FLAG) !== false);
    }
   
    function hasNewFriendRequests()
    {
    return (strstr($this->htmlOut, FRIEND_REQUEST_FLAG) !== false);
    }         
   
    function getHtml()
    {
    return $this->htmlOut;
    }
}
?>
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