Today in this world almost everyone is on Facebook. Today all our friends and relatives all can be found on Facebook. All of them use Facebook simply from their browser.
But, still a real ultimate geek may not want to access his Facebook account in a way other normal people use. he might try some other different ways to open his Facebook account. So in this post I will tell you that Geeky way to access it.
But, still a real ultimate geek may not want to access his Facebook account in a way other normal people use. he might try some other different ways to open his Facebook account. So in this post I will tell you that Geeky way to access it.
That most geeky way to access any social networking site is to use it from Linux terminal.Its seems impossible but a bit of PHP script makes it possible.
Introduction-About FBCMD
The thing which i m going to use is a tool called fbcmd which is pre-written in the PHP. It all PHP which drive it.This script allows us to perform all actions which we generaaly perform through our GUI of facebook.It takes command from the terminal like to post a status, to message, to chat etc. and perform that activity accordingly.
What all you need?
To use this script you dont need any special skills. You should have met the system requirements. They are some PHP modules to be installed into your account.To check that goto your file system --> usr--> bin --> and than search for PHP. If it is there than you are ready else you have to install it by issuing simple commands i.e.
Once that file is downloaded,run this coomand to install fbcmd
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Once PHP modules is installed download the fbcmd from this link here (right click it and choose Save As) otherwise do it by command line by issuing the command as : wget https://raw.github.com/dtompkins/fbcmd/master/fbcmd_update.php.You can have look at more commands like this here.
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Once that file is downloaded,run this coomand to install fbcmd
sudo php fbcmd_update.php install. |
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How to setup fbcmd?
Fbcmd need to authenticated by Facebook, but it doent use any trival method we generally use.Instead of that we should be passed through a series of steps to be get authorized.
Run
Step 1:Start with
Step 2:Type
Run
fbcmd and you’ll be seeing some instructions printed into the terminal on getting started. |
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Step 1:Start with
fbcmd go access which will take to you to fb page to create a session which shows suceess if session is succesfully created.Step 2:Type
fbcmd go auth which wiil take you to the page to create an authentication code which you will be using further to get connected. Press Generate to generate your authentication code. It will change after each session you create. |
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Then type the
fbcmd auth [code], here code is what you get after generation. |
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Now you have to add permissions for fbcmd use
fbcmd addperm by this you will be able to do anything from your terminal.Allow that permission you want to give or cross if you don't want.
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To check for permissions using fbcmd showperm. It will show the granted permission. |
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Usage of Fbcmd
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Now when you are set up its time to use the fbcmd to its full capacity.
- Post a new comment using command fbcmd status [message] for a word or use double quotes to use multiple words in your status. E.g. fbcmd status "hello there".
- If you'd like to see the posts others have made on your wall, use
fbcmd mywall. - To get a list of all friends use fbcmd friends and for specific friend use
fbcmd friends "[string]".(remove the square brackets but include the quotation marks). - To see who is online from your friend use
fbcmd fonline. - To show the last messages in inbox you can use
fbcmd inbox X, where X is the number of messages you want to show. - To check your news feed use fbcmd stream and to like someones post use fbcmd like[postID].
- To upload a picture to your Facebook, use
fbcmd addpic [path of image] [optional album ID] [optional tag].
What you learn matters.!!
I think this is pretty cool doing all this via command line but it is not suitable for all users.It is more for big-time geeks. So use this if you dare, but it's pretty cool once it is successful.
