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NAME
       comment_myspace - Leave a comment for your Myspace friends

VERSION
       Version 0.03

SYNOPSIS
        usage: comment_myspace ( -m message | -f filename ) [-y] [-d] [-i] [-r]
            [-n max_count] [-u username -p password] [-c cache_file]
            [friendID ...]

       Simple script to leave a comment for each of our friends using the
       WWW::Myspace::Comment Perl module.  By default, it will leave a maximum
       of 50 comments (see the -n option below), then exit displaying a
       message containing the result code returned from the post_comments
       method (DONE, COUNTER, or CAPTCHA). "perldoc WWW::Myspace::Comment" for
       more info.

       -m message
           Post "message" to the friends' page (beware shell escapes!)

       -f filename
           Read the account, password, and message from filename. The file
           must contain the username on the first line, the password on the
           second line, and the message starting on the third line, like this:

                   joe@somewhere.com
                   ILike2havelongpasswords
                   Just stopping by to say hi!

                   - Joe

           The above will set username to "joe@somewhere.com", the password to
           "ILike2havelongpasswords", and the message to:

             Just stopping by to say hi!

             - Joe

           All characters are safe when passing comments this way, and you can
           also pass HTML in the message. Note that myspace does allow users
           to strip HTML from comments, so make sure your stripped message is
           still readable.

       -y  Yes mode: Don't ask for confirmation, just do it. (careful!!!)
           This is for cron jobs, but normally you should use the confirmation
           to make sure the shell hasn't munged your message and that the
           friend count and exclusion count look ok before you go send stuff
           you didn't want to people you didn't want to...

       -d  Inserts a random delay before running. Do this is you're running
           the script from crontab to make it look more like a human.

       -i  Ignore Duplicates.  If the -i flag is passed, comment_myspace will
           not check the profile page for duplciate comments, it will just
           post.

       -r  Reset the exclusions file.  comment_myspace remembers who it has
           commented before and won't comment them again.  Using the -r flag
           resets this list (maybe I should call it -f for "forget?" :) Use
           this if you want to post a new comment to people and you don't care
           if you've commented them before. Note that unless you use the -i
           flag also, comment_myspace will still skip profiles on which it
           sees your profile link already.

           The reset is done -before- commenting begins.

       -n max_count
           Only post max_count comments.  This defaults to 50 in
           WWW::Myspace::Comment as of this writing.  Setting a value here
           will pass it to the WWW::Myspace::Comment object. This is mostly
           useful for posting fewer than 50 comments at a time, since Myspace
           won't let you post more than that without giving you a CAPTCHA.

       -u username
           Use "username" as the username when logging in

       -p password
           Use this password to log in (must be provided if -u is used

       friendID
           Post to this (or these) friendIDs only

       -c cache_file
           Use "cache_file" as the file to store/read the list of friends
           we've commented. As comments are left, the status of the post will
           be written to this file. If you don't provide this, the default
           cache_file will be used. See WWW::Myspace::Comment for details.

Examples
         Post to only two friends (will prompt for username
         and password):
         comment -m 'Merry Christmas\!\!\!' 370234 275034

         Post "Happy New Year!!!" to all our friends (will prompt for username
         and password):
         comment -m 'Happy New Year\!\!\!'

         Post to all Joe's friends using "joe@somewhere.com"'s account:
         comment -m 'Just saying hi' -u joe@somewhere.com -p FooBar92

Known Issues / To Do
       CAPTCHA: MySpace.com allows 53 or 55 posts before requiring a CATCHA
       response, then allows 3 before requiring it agian. Not sure what the
       timeout is on this (12 hours?).

       Note that the evolving point of leaving comments is to make sure that
       we're linked to from as many pages as possible, and mentioned on as
       many pages as possible. We want to appear to "be everywhere". Since we
       can only post to about 50 pages a day, we maximize our exposure by
       checking each page we're going to post on to see if we're already there
       and skipping it if we are.

       To Do:

         - Provide a CGI interface so band members can coordinate and type in the
           CAPTCHA code. Interface would act as a relay: for each person we'd
           auto-post to, display the filled in comment form and have them customize
           it and/or fill in the captcha code. Could run in semi-automatic mode
           where it'd only display the page for them if it got a code request.

perl v5.20.2                      2008-06-19                COMMENT_MYSPACE(1)