Revision history for WWW::Myspace
0.41 2006-04-15
- Fixed tiny typo in Data.pm docs.
- Fixed possible bug in FriendAdder.pm that would cause failed add
attempts to never be retried.
- Added Poster.pm to MANIFEST.
0.40 2006-04-14
- Fixed a bug in FriendAdder.pm that caused an invalid captcha
message to appear
- Updated Myspace.pm docs, putting options at top.
- Added auto_login option, which turns off auto-login if called
with a false value like so: "new WWW::Myspace( auto_login => 0 )".
- Added routines to croak if a function that requires login is
called when not logged in.
- Moved methods and their docs around in an attempt to
better organize things.
- Added search_music method. Still in testing.
- Removed test account logins. Only tests that don't require login
will be run by default. You can add a config file with personal
test accounts if you want to run full tests (see README for more
info and sample config file).
- Updated TestConfig.pm to use user-specific config file for full test
with generic fallback file.
- Fixed bug in Data.pm where friend_id was not passed to is_band
- add_account and update_friend in Data.pm now croak if database
connection cannot be created
- Fixed bug in send_message that would cause it to delay and return
"FN" if it encountered a user whose status was set to "away" or
who only accepts messages from friends. It should now return the
appropriate status code.
- submit_form now accepts a null URL, meaning it should search the
contents of $self->current_page for the form.
- Added delete_message method.
- Added bug in delete_friends to TODO.
- Added cleanup_inbox script to sample_scripts (deletes messages
from inbox, leaving most recent 40 messages).
- Added mail suite test in 05-message that tests send,
read, and delete (not reply yet).
- get_friends now displays a warning and sets "error" if it
encounters a private profile.
- get_friends correctly allows friend viewing when not logged in,
but croaks if attempting to view a mailbox or group when not
logged in.
- Added 99-enduser test script that runs "end-user" test suite
after full test suite to make sure everything works in both modes.
0.39 2006-04-08
- Fixed bug in MyBase.pm that could cause an error in some
cases when the new method was invoked.
- Added fatal error in WWW:Myspace::FriendAdder if
send_friend_requests is called and a myspace object hasn't
been passed to the FriendAdder object.
- Rewrote add_friends to use FriendAdder module. Still works the
same except for different output format.
- Updated FriendAdder to count passed attempts instead of all
attempts.
- Added save and load methods to MyBase.
- Added previously_posted method to Poster.pm, fixed bugs,
updated docs.
- Poster.pm's friend_ids method can now take a list or arrayref
to set its value.
- Updated get_friends to start at page 1 when serarching friend
lists, 0 for group and inbox due to myspace chage. (Note that this
change doesn't seem to affect the results, it was just loading
page 1 twice).
- Added get_friend_page to sample_scripts
- Added delete_friend to sample_scripts
- Fixed a bug in submit_form which could cause failures if an error
page was encountered on the first submit.
- Commented out "An Error Has Occurred" from the errors array in
Myspace.pm because it conflicts with the "Exceeded Useage"
(their typo, not mine) error message. It should fail, not try
again.
- Updated TODO with note about proper handling of Mech.
- Updated send_message to semi-properly handle Mech. and to use
the error method to check for failure from get_page.
- Updated sample_scripts/send_message to display any errors
encountered.
- Added mention of YAML indent to message_group synopsis
documentation.
- Added usage comments to get_friends sample script.
- Changed nomenclature of incrementing internals in FriendAdder.pm
- Changed max_attempts param to max_adds in FriendAdder.pm
- Fixed wrapping in FriendAdder.pm
- Added documentation for _report() and return_params to FriendAdder.pm
- Expanded documentation for new() on FriendAdder.pm
- Added beta dB schema "mysql.txt"
- Changed method update_friends to update_all_friends in Data.pm
- Added method update_friend to Data.pm
- Added table to schema to distinguish between friends from different accounts
- Modified update_friend to add info for is_band, user_name, and url
- Data.pm now a subclass of MyBase.pm
- Added column my_friend_id to accounts table
- Added internal method _die_pretty to Data.pm and FriendAdder.pm
- Updated docs for FriendAdder.pm and Data.pm
Made several enhancements to Myspace.pm:
- Myspace.pm is now a subclass of WWW::Myspace::MyBase.pm, so the
new method inherits options processing.
- Added logout method.
- Made "site_login" method public.
- Started changes to not require login for functions that don't need it.
- Added account_name and password accessor methods.
- Updated docs and reviewed code for proper Mech usage (needs more).
- Fixed delete_friends method broken by Myspace security enhancement.
- delete_friends is now much more efficient if deleting multiple
friends.
- delete_friends now croaks if called when not logged in.
- Added additional diagnostic output for failing "Post Comment" test
in 01-login.t
- Added test to 03-delete to check return status of delete_friends.
0.38 2006-03-28
- Removed extra "&"s from end of URLs in get_friends routines.
- get_friends methods (friends_from_profile, etc) will display
a warning if it encounters a page with no friendIDs.
- get_friends methods will display a warning if the friend count
is off of myspace's friend count by more than 5% when getting
friends from another user's profile (already did this when
getting our friends).
- get_friends methods will display a warning and return if they
fail to get a page.
- Enhanced get_friends sample script
- Fixed bug that was making get_page fail too easily.
- Added version 0.02 of FriendAdder.pm to the distribution
- FriendAdder.pm is now (mostly) documented
- FriendAdder->friend_request() renamed to
FriendAdder->send_friend_requests()
- Added convenience method FriendAdder->add_to_friends() for
FriendAdder->send_friend_requests()
- Added version 0.01 of Myspace::Data.pm to the distribution
- Added test 09-data.t for Myspace::Data
- Added test 10-mybase.t for MyBase.pm
- FriendAdder.pm now uses MyBase.pm as a base class
- Added MyBase.pm to dist (for internal modules to use).
- Fixed bug in message_group - docs said to add "delay: 0"
to the config file to stop it from sleeping. Correct setting
is "delay_time: 0". Fixed docs, and made "delay: 0" work
also so it'll work as expected for people with old config files.
- Removed dependency on IO::All in approve_friends, message_group,
and Message.pm (no longer required in the distribution, removed
from Makefile.PL also).
- Updated output in approve_friends to display result of commenting
(DONE, CAPTCHA, COUNTER). DONE means you've commented all your
friends.
- send_friend_request now checks to make sure there's a button
before posting to avoid:
"Can't call method "click" on an undefined value at
/usr/local/ActivePerl-5.8/lib/site_perl/5.8.7/WWW/Mechanize.pm
line 1345."
- send_friend_request now returns FN if a known error page is returned
even after the multiple attempts get_page makes at retreiving the
page. Before it could cause the error above also.
- Fixed a bug in which get_friends would produce a "use of
unitialized value" error if called with no arguments.
- Updated VERIFY_COMMENT_POST due to change in myspace.com profile
page display.
- Added eval around the "click" in submit_form to prevent the error
above from all methods. Failed form load will now just fail,
not "die".
- Added RE checks to post_comment to strengthen initial load.
Helps overcome FN post errors due to network problems.
EARLIER VERSIONS WILL REPORT FALSE COMMENT POST FAILURES.
0.37 2006-03-22
- Added "We\'re doing some maintenance on the mail for certain users"
error message to errors array.
- Fixed and added example to friends_from_profile method's docs.
- if get_friends is called in a HASHREF context, it returns
a hash of info about each friend (currently just the page they're
on in the friends list).
- Added version 0.01 of FriendAdder.pm to the distribution
- Added 07-friend_adder test script
- Added cool_new_people method to Myspace.pm
- Added 08-cool_new_people test script
comment_myspace:
- Added -i flag to comment_myspace. Causes comment_myspace to ignore
duplicates when posting comments.
- Added -r flag to comment_myspace. Reset the exclusions file before
running.
0.36 2006-03-22 - maintenance release, replaces 0.35.
- Removed signature code - was breaking install.
0.35 2006-03-15
- Added inbox method. Returns the contents of your inbox complete
with sender, messageID, subject, and status (read, unread, sent,
replied).
- Removed commented-out libraries deprecated in version 0.34.
- Added get_inbox sample script.
- submit_form now properly returns a failure code if it can't
load the form, instead of letting WWW::Mechanize choke on it.
This hopefully fixes bug#18232, where post_comments can fail
with no such field 'f_comments' at /.../WWW/Mechanize.pm line 1178.
0.34 2006-03-14
- Switched to use WWW::Mechanize
- Removed dependency on HTTP::Request::Form
- Fixes "Use of initialized value" errors when sending
friend requests.
- Removed cookie_jar method. Cookies stored in memory only.
- Moved login functions to more logical location in the code.
- Fixed some docs typos.
- logged_in will return false if my_friend_id couldn't be set for
some reason.
- If already_commented can't load the page, or if my_friend_id
isn't set, it will return a false "true" value and set
$myspace->error to a message describing the problem.
- Added mortality to all "scripts" - if login fails, the script
will die with "Login Failed". This prevents continuing with
unpredictable results.
0.33 2006-03-10
- Added signature code to Makefile.PL
- Added sample code to logged_in method to keep trying forever
until logged in.
- Added sample_scripts directory to MANIFEST
- Converted tabs into spaces in Changes file.
- Applied patch in bug#18055 to fix send_friend_request. Now
properly returns status code instead of status description
when called in a list context.
- Added dependency for Contextual::Return to Makefile.PL
(used in above bug fix).
- Added is_band method. Returns true if the profile is a band profile.
- Added code to send_friend_request to return "FB" if the
friend we're trying to add doens't accept friend requests from
bands, and the account we're sending from is a band.
- Added is_band tests to 01-login.t.
- Debugged response codes in send_friend_requests. The method
returned mostly FN and F before, codes are accurate now.
- Added "error" method and removed page-load warnings. They
are returned in "error" now and can be displayed by your script if
desired. See docs for "error" method.
- Added code to friend_request to return "FA" (Short for
Failed, Anonomyous adds rejected) if the user requires
a last name or email address to add them.
add_friends:
- Added add_friends to Makefile.PL so it'll actually install.
- add_friends will now die if it can't log in.
- Converted tabs into spaces in code.
- Fixed redundant status_codes code.
- Debugged CAPTCHA prompt
- Updated text.
0.32 2006-03-08
- Added add_friends script to the distribution. Simple script to
help send friend requests to friends list of another profile.
- Updated comment test script to skip post_all test if CAPTCHA
encountered.
- Corrected docs for comment_friends method.
- Corrected potential bug in approve_friend_requests which could
cause duplicate comments.
- Added CAPTCHA check to new friend commenting in
approve_friend_requests so it will not try to post any more
comments after receiving a CAPTCHA response.
- You can now check $myspace->captcha after runing
approve_friend_requests to see if it hit a CAPTCHA response or not.
- Updated approve test to skip comment testing if CAPTCHA was
encountered to prevent unnecessary test failures.
- Fixed Tom's ID in docs (it's 6221, not 6229). Note that it
-was- correct in the code, just not in the docs.
- Fixed test script bug that would cause friends_from_profile
method test to fail.
Comment.pm:
- post_all method now returns CAPTCHA, COUNTER, or DONE like
post_comments. (Only useful when delay = 0).
0.31 2006-03-06
- Added reply_message method. Not tested.
- Added friends_from_profile method which returns a list of
one or more other profile's friends.
- Updated login test script to work like the others,
added tests for friend_from_profile method.
- send_friend_request:
- Applied patch from Olaf Alders to return human-readable
status codes. Added his CAPTCHA-handling sample code
to docs.
Message.pm:
- send_all method now returns a response code (fixes a bug
in message_group in which it would say "Stopped due to "
instead of specifying why it had stopped).
- approve_friends:
- Added "-gc message" argument. If used, approve_friends, after
approving and commenting new friend requests, will leave
"message" as a comment for existing friends.
0.30 2006-03-05
- Added read_message method to Myspace.pm
- Added tests for read_message
- Moved Message.pm testing to 05-message.t
- Renamed approve.t 04-approve.t
- Renamed comment.t 05-comment.
- Changed verification RE for get_profile so that
profiles marked as "private" won't produce "Page doesn't
match verification pattern." warnings.
- Fixed bug#17999: Can't modify non-lvalue subroutine call.
(When post_comment would return an FC response, the module
would produce an error).
0.29 2006-02-27
message_group:
- Now accepts a reference to a list of groups or a single group.
0.28 2006-02-26
- Fixed a bug in post_comment that would cause comments with
multiple lines to display "<br>" tags when posted to pages that
don't allow HTML comments.
- Made same change in send_message, which makes no difference
in MacOS X, but might on other platforms that interpret "\n"
differently. Should be "safer".
- Updated test scripts to post multi-line messages.
0.27 2006-02-24
- Added "An error has occurred trying to send this message" error RE.
message_group:
- Now displays the reason it stopped (CAPTCHA, USAGE, COUNTER, or DONE).
0.26 2006-02-20
- Included approve_friends, message_group, and comment scripts
in distribution.
- Added browse method, but not yet functional. If you want to
help debug, please do. Otherwise, don't use it yet.
- Added CAPTCHA handling (alpha stage):
- post_comment sets $myspace->captcha and returns FC
- Call post_comment with ID, message, captcha response to
continue.
Note: Using this is a bit tricky, needs better examples.
- Fixed "t/02-dual.........Can't open test config file
readline() on closed filehandle CONFIG at t/TestConfig.pm
line 50." error in test.
- CHANGED submit_friend_request. This implements feature request
17587, but IS NOT BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE. It will DIE if you call
it with more than one friend, so that it can tell you to update
your code. Now returns a status code like post_comment instead
of a true/false value.
- Added submit_friend_requests method for multiple adds (but see
docs for a better example).
0.25 2006-02-20
- Added debugging code.
- Updated URLs for get_friends sub-methods. Versions before
this one will not return all friends.
- Added warning if friend_count and number of friends returned
by get_friends differs by more than 10 friends or 5% of
friend_count.
- Added page verification RE to get_friends to help ensure all
friends are accounted for.
0.24 2006-02-19
- Added logged_in method. Returns true if login was successful.
- Added login failure tests to test scripts.
- Updated for changes in myspace.com. These fix install test
errors and the get_friends method (whose URL relies on
friend_count) as well.
- user_name now gets name from "Hello, <name>!" line.
- Included test for optional "<span>" in friend_count.
PREVIOUS VERSION WILL FAIL INSTALL TESTS AND get_friends,
user_name, AND friend_count METHODS (and possibly others)
WILL NOT WORK.
0.23 2006-02-11
- Added "profile undergoing routine maintenance" error RE to
list of error pages.
- Added add_to_friends convenience method.
- Updated URL for inbox friends check. Fixes friends_who_emailed
method and tests so install works.
- Updated $SEND_MESSAGE_FORM URL. Fixes mail sending and tests.
- Fixed POD for add_to_friends.
PREVIOUS VERSIONS WILL FAIL INSTALL TESTS AND CAN'T SEND
MESSAGES.
0.22 2006-02-10
- Added regexp for "This user's profile has been temporarily
disabled for special maintenance" error.
- Added an array of regexps for error page handling.
- Added ability to explicitly verify certain pages in get_pages.
- Added explicit verify for get_profile method.
- Updated known issues.
- Added explicit check for verify form for post_comments.
- Added dual RE check options for submit_form.
0.21 2006-02-07
- Added example and "See also WWW::Myspace::Message" docs for
send_message due to a user question.
- Added "See also WWW::Myspace::Comment" for post_comment.
- Removed unnecessary pre-requesite "IO::All" from Makefile.PL
- Fixed condition in 03-delete.t in which test would fail if
Perl 2 was not in friend list.
- Added code to check for "unexpected error" page.
- Made get_page and submit_form functions much more robost.
- Updated URLs in send_friend_request, delete_friends,
post_comment to use new myspace URLs.
- Added flag to send_message to have it attach an "Add to Friends"
button. This is mostly to save people having to update their
message files manually if the code for this changes again.
- Fixed delete_friends method, broken by myspace change.
- Numerous other changes and bug fixes from extensive changes at
Myspace.com.
- Reinforcement of test script items so that tests should pass,
so that end-user installations can include auto-update code
without forcing install.
Message.pm (0.8):
- Added add_to_friends method which adds an "Add to friends"
button after the message if set to true.
If you include an "add to friends" button in your messages,
YOU SHOULD UPDATE YOUR CODE TO USE THIS METHOD instead.
PREVIOUS VERSIONS WILL ENCOUNTER MANY ERRORS:
Posting comments, deleting friends, sending friend requests.
Install tests will fail.
0.20 2006-02-04
- Added Tom's friend_user_name method and test for it.
- Added more output info to approve.t test.
0.19 2006-02-04
Maintenance release
- Added missing test files to distribution
0.18 2006-02-02
- Added bug reporting note to docs.
Message.pm (0.7):
- Counter now only counts successful posts.
Comment.pm (0.11):
- Counter now only counts successful posts.
0.17 2006-02-01/6:43pm
- Updated Login script due to change in myspace.com login form.
Unless Myspace.com changes the form back, NO PREVIOUS VERSION
WILL WORK as of the date/time of this version above.
0.16 2006-01-26/8:09pm
- Set test count correctly in approve.t
Comment.pm:
- Added post_all method
- Added comment.t test.
- Fixed a condition which could cause an "undefined variable"
warning when reset_exclusions is called.
- Fixed a bug that would produce an error:
Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference at
/path/to/WWW/Myspace/Comment.pm line 124, <STDIN> line 2.
if post_comments was called without any friends.
(RT Bug 17379: http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=17379).
- Added test for defaults to comment.t
0.15 2006-01-25/3:12pm
- Fixed condition in submit_form so it'll try 5 times with 2
second delay if there's a network error.
- Updated test suite for new max_count in Message and removed
extra "approve_friends" test in 01-login.t
- Added handling of private profiles in send_message - returns "FF"
- send_message converts literal '\n' into "\n".
- Added handling of away messages - returns "FA"
- Added handling of excess usage - returns "FE"
Message.pm:
- Added result code display (i.e. why are we sleeping?) when
sleeping and "noisy" is on.
- Det default max_count to 300.
- Added handling of private profiles and away messages.
- Added handling of usage being exceeded - returns "USAGE".
0.14 2006-01-25/11:41am
- Added loop code to submit_form - will now try each
submit 5 times if the submit fails.
- Added optional "message" argument to approve_friend_requests.
You can now call approve_friend_requests( message )
and message will be posted to each approved friend.
- Added TODO and CONTRIBUTING section to docs.
- Updated docs for all methods.
- Updated get_page to attempt GET 20 times instead of forever.
- Added methods:
- send_friend_request
- add_as_friend
- delete_friend
Comment.pm (0.9):
- Reworked module internals. Made Spiffy.
- Numerous minor bug fixes.
- Renamed "HTML" accessor "html".
- Added "noisy" accessor.
- Added "cache_file" to conform to Message and Myspace.
0.13 2006-01-20/7:43pm
Fixed approve_friend_requests method. Was skipping valid friend
requests.
0.12 2006-01-17/1:20pm
Included Comment.pm, FriendChanges.pm, and Message.pm in
distribution.
Fixed bugs in cache_dir and cache_file handling.
Made pathname handling OS-independent using File::Spec.
Added friend_count and user_name accessors.
Fixed retreival of user's friend list in get_friends.
Added make_cache_dir method.
Comment.pm:
- Added exlusions_file method.
- Renamed "set_HTML" method "HTML". Made it a
standard accessor method.
FriendChanges.pm:
- Set default cache file to $myspace->cache_dir/friend_cache.
- Added cache_file accessor method.
- Obsoleted "set_cache_file" method.
Message.pm, Comment.pm, FriendChanges.pm:
- When cache_dir method is called to retreive its default
value, it calls the make_cache_dir method in the
WWW::Myspace object to create cache_dir if it
doesn't exist.
- File handling done by File::Spec for cross-platform
portability.
Message.pm:
- Added extensive test suite.
- Added "messaged" method.
- Stabilized code to beta release state. Passes test suite.
- Fixed bugs.
- Noted obscure known "bugs".
0.11 2006-01-19/3:07am
CPAN maintenance release. Removed stray ._ files from dist.
0.10 2006-01-16/8:12pm
Fixed setting of HOME_DIR to work if $ENV{HOME} is not
set (i.e. if running in a CGI script). Updated docs.
0.09 2006-01-11/10:24pm
Chnaged name from "Myspace" to "WWW::Myspace"
Made "Spiffy".
Updated docs.
Changed cache file to use $HOME/.www-myspace/login_cache by default.
Fixed bugs:
Known issues:
- get_friends method does not work if user has > 40 friends
(bug introduced by change in myspace site).
- post_comment dies if it is told to post to a friendID that
is not a friend of the logged-in user. (Myspace displays
an error instead of a form).
Added test suite.
0.08 2006-01-07/12:52pm
*** REQUIRED VERSION AFTER 1/7/2006 ***
Added explicit load of "Home" page when logging in.
Note that this was done beacuse Myspace added an
ad page which breaks any version of this module prior
to this one.
0.07 2006-01-03/7:51pm
Added CAPTCHA response code "FC" to send_message method. send_message
returns FC if the $CAPTCHA regexp is found after submitting a message
form.
0.06 2005-12-27/5:04pm
Added friends_in_group method. Returns list of "friends" in a
Myspace group when passed the group ID.
0.05 2005-12-14/7:49pm
Added approve_friends method.
0.04 2005-12-11/9:38pm
Minor documentation tweaks: Updated BUGS and Copyright secsions,
added "send_messages" method in SYNOPSIS.
0.03 2005-12-11/9:21pm
Added send_message method.
Added already_commented method.
Updated documentation to be in-line in the package file.
0.02 2005-12-08/10:41pm
post_comments now adds "<br>" tags to the message
like myspace's Javascript does.
0.01 2005-12-05/1:14
First version, released on an unsuspecting world.