This page will be the permanent home of GlitchCastFriendAdder, a perl script I wrote to scratch an itch. I wanted to promote our music podcast, “The GlitchCast” by inviting fans of bands my wife and I like, as well as other podcasts we’re similar to and admire, to be our friends. The only problem is that in order to add people, you have to go through their profile pages, which are loaded with music, video, graphics, and crazy html. It can be a slow and tedious process. I wanted something that made it easy to invite groups of people.
With that in mind, I give you GlitchCastFriendAdder. This is a perl script, and it’s certainly rough around the edges. If you’re running on windows, there are applications available for cheap that will do the job better and with more support. I’m on Linux, so I needed a cross-platform script that did just what I needed.
That said, this little bit of code should run on any machine with the proper perl modules installed (WWW::Mechanize, HTML::TokeParser::Simple, and Text::CSV). It’s open source, released under the GPL.
Download GlitchCastFriendAdder 1.3
- What’s new in version 1.3
- Logins weren’t working anymore - updated the script with a patch from Matt (mail__REMOVE___@pumppanic.com).
- Previous Versions
- Version 1.2
- Fixed the “submit22″ bug caused by a change at myspace
- Fixed the “syntax error on line 79″ bug caused by my idiocy
- version 1.1
- UPDATE: The URLs should be one per line! (this is a change from version 1.0)
- Original Verision 1.0
- Captchas now auto-open in firefox (if you agree to the option at startup)
- This version requires CSV files without returns or spaces, and will not auto-open captchas in firefox
- Version 1.2
How do I run this?
On Linux
If you’re running on Linux, running this code is fairly simple. Just invoke it with
perl GlitchCastFriendAdder.pl
If it complains that it’s needs certain libraries, you can add them with CPAN, apt, or yum.
To add the necessary libraries using apt on Fedora Core, Red Hat, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, and others, run this command as root: (package names may differ slighly across distros. If one does not appear available, search for it with apt-cache search packagename)
apt-cache search mechanize
brings up libwww-mechanize-perl
apt-cache search tokeparser
brings up libhtml-tokeparser-simple-perl
apt-cache search csv-perl
brings up libtext-csv-perl
now that I’ve found the package names (I’m using ubuntu, so this exact command should work for all debian distros with universe and multiverse enabled)
apt-get install libhtml-tokeparser-simple-perl libtext-csv-perl libwww-mechanize-perl
You could of course use CPAN to install these modules instead, but I’m less familiar with that method. If you know how, please email me at GlitchCastFriendAdder A.T. GlitchNYC.com Now that you’ve got all your modules, the code should run just fine. Be sure that you’ve added at least one MySpace URL to friendPagesToScrape.txt - you’ll have to make that file if you haven’t already.
Running on a Mac
I have no idea. In theory, this should be fairly similar to the process above. If you get it to work, let me know how you did it!
Running on Windows
This should be possible using ActiveState perl. It’s been a while since I used it, but if memory serves, there is a GUI that allows you to choose the packages you need. Just select these: * WWW::Mechanize * HTML::TokeParser::Simple * Text::CSV
I’ve now had my first report of this working on windows! To get the firefox captcha routine to work, you’ll need to change the firefox executable path. This is as simple as commenting one line and uncommenting another. It’s right below the username and password at the top of the code.
Running the script
- First, enter your username and password at the top of the script
- Second, paste a bunch of myspace url’s containing people you want to add into the file friendPagesToScrape.txt in the same directory where the main script is.
- UPDATE: The URLs should be one per line! (this is a change from version 1.0)
- HINT - It’s easy to change just the “page” variable when you paste in the url’s to get multiple pages of friends of one group/person.
The script will parse that file, and then go to each page in the list, getting all the friend IDs on the page. Once it has grabbed all the friendIDs, it adds each of the friends, prompting you if it needs a captcha. I’ve tuned it to be fairly patient (1 friend added every 5 seconds or so) so as to not anger the myspace gods and incur lots of captchas, but you can tune as it runs by following the prompts if you start to get too many captchas.
GlitchCastFriendAdder - The Open Source MySpace Friend Adder
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January 4th, 2006 at 1:36 am
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January 18th, 2006 at 7:45 pm
Very nice script thx
January 18th, 2006 at 8:57 pm
Boy- do I suck at rewriting someones script.. lol- I tried to add a ‘check the text file to see if I added this person before I add them again’ it sort of worked.. something you may want to add in the future.. anyways- theres a heres a little secret or so it seems.. when you get to the captcha just send the user a message asking for an add.. then contiune on with the script as if you already entered the captcha.. it pretty much fools the system it seems into thinking you sent out a captcha.. something about their user add system working on their mail function that makes it pretty ‘hackable’..
Anyways- I also tried turning your script into a emailer instead of an adder.. got it sort of to work.. but again.. I suck at this sort of thing.. perhaps you could fix it..
January 19th, 2006 at 8:03 pm
[...] Eric released the source code to his MySpace Friends Adder, so if you’re interested in checking out some of the code, head on over there. [...]
February 13th, 2006 at 1:38 am
Will this work for the new myspace they are coming out with a better version of there site on another domain name starting march 1st it will be another social networking community site with alot more features. I guess to stay ahead of other sites coming out like myspace.com also i heard it will be called http://www.FriendWise.com i guess well just have to see if friendwise happens.
February 15th, 2006 at 8:16 am
Cool, I want to try this. I’ve seen some rather expensive apps on the market. Thanks for the share!
February 15th, 2006 at 7:08 pm
This is just a quick update to let everyone know that I will be doing a quick update to fix this for some of the recent changes they have made. 1.2 should be out sometime next week.
February 16th, 2006 at 12:39 pm
would it be possible to make a function to keep track of who you already sent an add to?
February 16th, 2006 at 12:40 pm
Absolutely possible, I was just lazy before. that’s going to be one of the main upgrades in 1.2
February 16th, 2006 at 1:04 pm
I’m on Linux RedHat and get the following error, not sure if anyone has had any luck with it.
[root@server root]# perl GlitchCastFriendAdder.pl
print (…) interpreted as function at GlitchCastFriendAdder.pl line 78.
Scalar value @columns[0] better written as $columns[0] at GlitchCastFriendAdder.pl line 106.
Scalar value @columns[0] better written as $columns[0] at GlitchCastFriendAdder.pl line 110.
syntax error at GlitchCastFriendAdder.pl line 79, near “)
print”
Execution of GlitchCastFriendAdder.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
February 16th, 2006 at 1:30 pm
The other thing that would be handy would be if we could provide a list of IDs, one per line, that we could feed to it…
February 16th, 2006 at 8:56 pm
Gaz…. I’m running Debian and getting the exact same error. Not sure what the deal is….
March 29th, 2006 at 11:28 am
First off I want to thank you for providing a free friend adder.
I have been having a problem where the adder seems to just stop working. It will add one or two friends and then just sit there looking at me blankly.
If I restart it it will get another few friends in and die again.
Lowering the sleep time on it seems to get me a few more friends but it still stops working and I don’t have a CAPTCHA up. Any ideas?
April 1st, 2006 at 9:55 pm
I keep getting an error that says “there is no form named addfriend” How do I fix this?
April 1st, 2006 at 10:02 pm
I’ve seen that error for several reasons:
1: The username and/or password at the top of the script is incorrect
2: MySpace is being flaky, and is returning error pages
3: The friends you are adding have already been added. If you have stopped and restarted the script, be sure the friendPagesToScrape.txt file is fresh.
April 1st, 2006 at 10:05 pm
nevermind. I’ve found out what was wrong. thanks for the awesome script.
April 5th, 2006 at 7:43 pm
For windows, i use MsBots.com for myspace bots - friend adders, commenters.
This perl thing is confusing.
April 6th, 2006 at 11:55 pm
Josue writes:
To which I replied:
Hi Josue
Congrats on the dual boot, I think that’s quite a bit more complicated than actually just running it on the mac, but well worth it. I run desktop linux here at home!
Now, as to the exact command you need, I only ran ubuntu for a few months, so this might not be letter for letter accurate, but it should point you in the right direction
What you need to do is use apt to install the packages you need
You’ll have to do this as a super user, which means typing sudo in front of things and entering your password
Here’s the commands I would run
sudo apt-cache search tokeparserthis will spit out a bunch of packages. Let’s say for argument one of them was
perl-libhtml-tokeparser-simple . It should be something very similar to that.
If you don’t see anything come up when you search for tokeparser:
you’ll need to enable the universe and multiverse for your ubuntu install. Don’t worry if that sounds strange, it’s a normal reaction
This (any many other ubuntu tasks) are wonderfully documented on the ubuntu starter guide (don’t worry that it’s for 5.04 and you installed, 5.10, it’ll work just as well)
Once you’ve done that, run that search in apt again and see what you come up with. You should see something very similary to perl-tokeparser-simple come up in the results
Okay, so now you’ve either found the package or enabled the uni and multiverse. I’m going to use perl-libhtml-tokeparser-simple as my example here, but please use whatever package is found for debian.
now do
sudo apt-get install perl-libhtml-tokeparser-simple(by the way, you’ll need to repeat this twice more for the other packages you’ll need, but it goes fast once you’ve got the hang of it. Just apt-cache search packagename, then apt-get install package-full-name)
Once you’ve installed all your dependencies, you’re good to go! Apt is an amazing system! You can install anything you need using it. For example, lets say you wanted a great drawing program like adobe illustrator. Just do
sudo apt-get install inkscape- voila, it’s already in your applicaiton menu.Have fun!
-Eric
April 11th, 2006 at 5:00 pm
I’ve got it to start but it keeps ending right away with this error:
Can’t locate object method “get_attr” via package “HTML::TokeParser::Simple::Token” at Adder.pl line 126, line 1.
I tried to google it but found nothing of use. Any thoughts or ideas?
Much appreciated,
Bobbi Sue
April 11th, 2006 at 5:13 pm
Hi bobbi, I hit this error myself. You’ll need an up-to-date version of TokeParser::Simple . If you’ve used apt to download your packages, you might need to use CPAN to get the updated versino of that particular one.
-Eric
April 11th, 2006 at 5:19 pm
Perfect! thanks so much for the script and the help.
Bobbi Sue
April 18th, 2006 at 5:04 pm
i am a perl noobie. how do i install this this on windows?
April 18th, 2006 at 5:08 pm
Hi Jon
I don’t generally support windows, as there are lots of great shareware myspace friend adders that you can pay for on that platform. That said, if you’re adventurous (or cheap!) you can download activestate perl and install the necessary libraries listed in the article above. Once you’ve done that, running the program should be as simple as typing
perl GlitchCastFriendAdder.plat the command prompt. I’ve had reports of this working for people now!
April 21st, 2006 at 12:25 pm
I was able to figure out how to do it on a MAC
email me at repasky@gmail.com and i’ll send you text instructions
in the meantime check out my bands page for your podcast at:
http://www.myspace.com/thepicture
or
http://www.thepictureonline.com
I can send you a CD if you likes
Justin:)
April 22nd, 2006 at 2:29 am
Is there a way to write script that would only add to people with certain kewords in their profile?
April 22nd, 2006 at 4:03 pm
Hi Sean - there shouldn’t be any need to change the script to do that. Simply feed the program URLs of search pages that contain the groups you’d like to add
The script will scrape any page you give it, find all the myspace users on there, and add them.
May 7th, 2006 at 10:37 pm
Ok its been taking me awhile to get this installed on suse 10.0. I had to find all of these liabraries and install them and I get this message:
Can’t locate Text/CSV.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7/i586-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/i586-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7/i586-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at GlitchCastFriendAdder.pl line 34.
BEGIN failed–compilation aborted at GlitchCastFriendAdder.pl line 34.
I just installed 3 versions of this module, not just debs but rpms I found, before I got other messages but now all I get is this one.
May 7th, 2006 at 10:56 pm
Hmm, sorry Randy, I’m no Suse expert! What I can suggest is using CPAN instead of installing the modules automatically.
Luckily, CPAN is very easy!
At your shell prompt su to root (or sudo) and type cpan
It will ask you a bunch of questions if this is your first time running it. Answer them to the best of your ability, and choose a few mirrors local to you (or just guess, it doesn’t really matter). Once that’s done, you’ll be at a cpan> prompt.
at the cpan, type
install Text::CSV
if you need to search for a package you’re not 100% on the name on, use the “i” command. For example:
i /CSV/
will list all the packages with CSV in the name.
After you install the CSV package, you may find that it complains about others! This is normal, as it’s just tripping on the missing CSV package first, and will find others missing once that’s corrected. The 3 you need to install are
Text::CSV
WWW::Mechanize
HTML::TokeParser::Simple
Once that’s done, quit cpan and try to run the script. You should be in good shape!
-Eric
May 10th, 2006 at 3:21 am
I finally able to install the script on a MAC. Sadly the whole CPAN automatic install thing was not working, but I was able to install the packages manually.(this is the way of pain)
For any future upgrades to the script I would recommend including CPAN packages with it somehow. Just a suggestion.
The script runs great except for one thing. Just one more request I have.
Is there any way of automatically bypassing or avoiding catchas?
I tried everything it seems, but nothing is evading the notorious myspace catcha. I figured myspace is smart about detecting automatic friend adders and might only be allowing me to add so many friends per given amount of time.
What I can’t figure out is what interval to use. I’ve tried increasing the sleep time and it still happens. I’ve tried waiting twenty minutes in between script runs and it still happens! There is’nt any consistency it seems. Because sometimes I can wait 20 minutes and the script works fine.
I wondered about the possiblty that adding randomization to the interval itself might help. But my friend tells me that he was able to manually add hundreds of people, at fairly regular interval. He still ran into catchas on a fairly consistent basis but he was atleast able to get through a whole page.
What are other peoples luck with this script? I using it for a friends band and he already has lots of friends and adds/accepts on a regular basis. I’m not sure if that might be behind. If anyone figures anything out be sure to send a message to
http://www.myspace.com/stoneforge
May 12th, 2006 at 10:01 pm
Cool script, but I could see why people would have difficulty with it. If you are not able to use this script, I highly recommend http://www.friendadderpro.com as they have a worthy program at a really low price compared to what some are charging.
John
May 13th, 2006 at 10:15 pm
Thanks, the friend adder from http://www.friendadderpro.com works perfect! Awsome find John.
May 16th, 2006 at 5:42 pm
I can’t get that stuff to work I know zip about software or computers really. I tried the perl dl it installed everything changed the path. I type perl GlitchFriendAdder.pl and it goes no perl command or something but what do I know (windows).
May 16th, 2006 at 5:52 pm
Hi Justin
It actually sounds like you got quite close, but to be honest, this is the geeky, super-do-it-yourself friend adder. There are tons of commercial products available that do it cheap and to be quite honest, do it better.
If you’re interested in learning how perl works a bit and fiddling with things, I’ll be happy to help, but don’t be afraid to explore some of the other friendadders out there. I wrote this specifically because there’s no friendadder for Linux, which I run at home. It happens to run on other platforms if you get all your ducks in a row, but it’s not trivial.
May 16th, 2006 at 7:36 pm
I get unknown command ‘perl’ ; type ‘help’ for a list of commands.
May 16th, 2006 at 7:53 pm
I want to learn programing and computers alot so… im game if you want to help. I just need to get my ducks in a row. I copied this = ‘firefox’; and put it in front of this LastPlatformDir in this file [compatibility configuration settings 8k] that was the only folder i thought is where I am to copy the skript to and make the link commenting and uncommenting. Then I downloaded activestate pearl installed it on my computer, I can go to windows start, all programs, ActivePerl 5.8.8 Build 817, then to the perl package manager. I click that, it loads, a little black rectagular box that says ppm programers package manager version 3.4.
entering interactive shell.Using Term::ReadLine::Perl as readline library. Type ‘help’ to get started. ppm>_
I copyed the entire skript to the [compatibility configuration settings 8k] file and put my computers user name and password in the user name and password section. I may have the wrong user name and password maby which one does it need ? the one with lots of letters and numbers after my name or just my name in my windows users folder.
Thanks for the help. I hope to get my ducks lined the heck up!!!
May 16th, 2006 at 7:57 pm
Oh and I put the url pages I want to extract the friends from under
my $file = ‘friendPagesToScrape.txt’;
http://home.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewfriends&friendID=6221
http://home.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewfriends&friendID=6221&friendCount=78482747&userName=Tom&page=1962069&prevPage=1&PREVPageFirstONERETURENED=10&PREVPageLASTONERETURENED=2918
my $csv = Text::CSV->new();
like this.
May 16th, 2006 at 9:11 pm
So it’s geek not trivial, meaning I need to add in extra charicters on files or know what to erase of the file?
May 17th, 2006 at 4:33 am
Hi there!
This script is amazing…
But I don’t understand, the script doesnt seem to work anymore… It cant get the info from the page to scrape… And it was working yesterday!
Any clue?
Thanks!
May 17th, 2006 at 1:40 pm
Thank you for your help with cpan, it has openned my eyes a lot, it is very easy to do this with a debian base system as I can see, so now im working on a project where I can plug an xbox into a network and it will automatically add friends
May 18th, 2006 at 12:44 am
any help still eric?
May 18th, 2006 at 4:24 am
Hey, i dont understand why, but the script is working now…
I have a suggestion for the future version : I had to copy/paste hundred of the SAME url (just the page number change) in the friendPagesToScrape.txt file. Could you do something to do this automatically? A thing like this : i just enter the URL, then the first number of the page and then the last…
Another thing : is there a way to bypass this fu**ing CAPTCHA? I heard some commercial scripts can do this…
Thanks
May 18th, 2006 at 10:03 am
BrainWave so do u know how to help me with windows? Geek in training (keep it on the dl)
May 19th, 2006 at 1:29 am
Can someone please post some DETAILED instructions with this thing? I am a oomplete new-b.
Thanks
May 19th, 2006 at 6:22 am
Ok no problem!
That’s quite easy.
Download THIS :
http://downloads.activestate.com/ActivePerl/Windows/5.8/ActivePerl-5.8.8.817-MSWin32-x86-257965.msi
install it
copy the script file into the Perl/bin directory
create a friendPagesToScrape.txt file with urls of pages to add friends
launch PerlPackageManager in your programs (Start menu etc)
type the following lines:
search mechanize
add 1
search tokeparser
add 1
search csv
add 8
then double clic on your script file and here you go!
i hope that i didnt make any mistakes and that helps
c ya
May 19th, 2006 at 6:33 am
oh i forgot!
you have to edit the script file a bit:
edit these lines with your myspace login and pass:
my $username = ‘xxx@xxx.xxx’;
my $password = ‘xxxxx’;
put a # in front of this line:
my $firefoxExecutable = ‘firefox’; #comment this line on windows
remove the # in front of this line:
my $firefoxExecutable = ‘c:/progra~1/mozill~1/firefox.exe’; #uncomment this line on windows
you can also change the sleeptime: (20 is the better to avoid captcha when you first run the script i think… then put it to 0 when it ask you)
my $sleepTime = 20;
there is an error in the script too:
go to the line where it is written :
system(”$firefoxExecutable system(”$firefoxExecutable http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=invite.addfriend_verify\\&friendID=$key”);
and REMOVE the \\
otherwise it will open the wrong page when a captcha is detected
then save the file
that’s it! good luck!
May 19th, 2006 at 6:36 am
lol why did it make a large font on my post??
remove the THREE anti-slash (i dont know why, only 2 are displayed here…)
May 19th, 2006 at 10:10 pm
very cool brain thanks !!!
May 19th, 2006 at 10:21 pm
um, if your using windows type install insted of add ( or use help and your brain.) but Brainwaves intructions are the most detailed you can get.
May 19th, 2006 at 10:29 pm
I dont understand the friendPagesToScrape.txt do I just make a new text document and put friendPagesToScrape.txt for its name and add the url’s?
May 19th, 2006 at 10:42 pm
and I still don’t know how to run it? Do I need perl manager running to run it. Do I type any commands? cause I double clicked my script and it just opens do I just leave it open to run is it working then? Do I need to login?
May 19th, 2006 at 10:48 pm
If you answer those questions then I think that’s a detailed instuction of how to install it to windows. (for the non geeks or geeks in training)
May 20th, 2006 at 3:41 am
yeah it’s perhaps ‘install’ instead of ‘add’ i don’t remember…
for the friendPagesToScrape.txt file yeah you create a new document in the script folder and put urls in it (press enter after each url)
you dont need perl manager runnnig to run it!
you can run it:
- by double clicking on it
- by running a dos prompt and go to the script folder then type: perl GlitchCastFriendAdder.pl
i prefered to create a friendAdder.bat file in notepad with this in it:
perl GlitchCastFriendAdder.pl
pause
then save it
and double clic on it to run the script…
like this you will be able to read what are the errors before windows closes the dos prompt window…
May 20th, 2006 at 5:02 am
hey i did the whole thing right but when i open the script in dos it says “no such file or directory at C:/perl/bin/glitchcastfriendadder.pl on lin 57..was it that mean??thanks
May 20th, 2006 at 8:22 am
I did all that except how do you go to the script folder on dos prompt, I dos prompt perl GlitchCastFriendAdder.pl
it says can’t open no such file. When I double click friendadder.bat or the script file they just open to my desktop. Is that what I want? Them just to stay open to my desk top to run? otherwise all seems well.
May 20th, 2006 at 10:16 am
ok I got it to look like a perl thingy um perl dos manager thingy I click that? well I did. it pops up one quick sec. then goes away left it on.. it has a 10 sleep it hasnt done nothing yet but I don’t know what 10 sleep is 10 mins.? It might still be on sleep then.. is that how it is supposed to work? ill type back in 30 min. I also don’t get what urls to paste? Will the urls from toms friend pages work? or do I need browsed paged ones like the ones from search??
May 20th, 2006 at 10:32 am
example of URL :
http://home.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewfriends&friendID=38245473
the .bat has to be created in the perl/bin/ folder, where EVERYTHING is.
then just run the .bat file (no need to run the dos prompt)
c ya
May 20th, 2006 at 1:25 pm
BrianWave, thanks a lot for all the help. I tried doing what you said and was still unsuccessful.
Not your fault though. I’m just not computer savy.
But John, I needed something a bit less complicated, so I took your recommendation and with http://www.friendadderpro.com and its excellent. I highly recommend it myself now.
Sandford - You can call me Sandy!
May 20th, 2006 at 2:33 pm
Brain I don’t wanna piss u off but I don’t think that works I put it with everything and it doesn’t turn into a dos prompt like the .pl it just stays a document is that what’s supposed to happen? Then what just open it?
May 20th, 2006 at 2:35 pm
and y pause shouldn’t it be un-pause?
May 20th, 2006 at 2:44 pm
Is my script also supposed to turn into a dos prompt? Can I just use that and how do I use it. I double click it it opens closes but no friends yet.
May 20th, 2006 at 2:47 pm
id buy one Im just broke plus I like computers and learning about them.
May 20th, 2006 at 2:52 pm
oh is see…
when SAVING the file in the NOTEPAD just choose SAVE AS then choose ALL FILES and not text files then choose a name for the file: xxxx.bat
then run it
the “pause” will just pause when the script is finished… you’ll see the errors if there is errors…
May 20th, 2006 at 2:53 pm
Hi Justin.
I’m confused about where you’re initially having trouble. This program is meant to be run at the command (dos) prompt. Open a dos window, cd to the directory where you’ve saved this script (you did save the script as a .pl file somewhere on your machine, right?) and then type
perl GlitchCastFriendAdder.pl
This is only the first step. Once you do this, it will complain about a few errors. We can cross those bridges when we come to them, but right now, I’m not sure you’ve got perl working on your machine.
If you get this far, paste the errors in a comment here, and I’ll help work through them by getting the correct packages installed to run this script.
May 20th, 2006 at 2:56 pm
I’m sure John, Ryan and Sandy are the same person : the one who created friendadderpro… And it’s possible that this program don’t work… Some of the commercial friend adders don’t work… But some others do.
May 20th, 2006 at 3:42 pm
Hmm - that’s an interesting theory, brainwave.
I will say that for some people, commercial solutions are much more appropriate here. I am not able to provide active support other than what you see here in the comments. I also do not provide a packaged windows .exe or support for things like defeating captchas or sending bulk messages within myspace.
It’s interesting to note that John, Ryan and Sandy come from very similar IP addresses
Sandy (IP: 69.235.3.115 , adsl-69-235-3-115.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net)
John (IP: 69.235.51.250 , adsl-69-235-51-250.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net)
Ryan (IP: 69.235.50.58 , adsl-69-235-50-58.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net)
I think you’ve hit the nail on the head BrainWave. It’s a shame that their product can’t stand on it’s own and that they have to write fake comments like these, if indeed this is the people from friendadderpro.
For the record, I’ll say this. If http://www.friendadderpro.com/ needs to come into these comments and say my little free script is broken (which, in general, it’s not), and then promote how awesome their own is, I’ll let you make your own conclusions about friendadderpro.
May 20th, 2006 at 3:43 pm
Oh, just as an aside, all url’s in these comments automatically get the rel=nofollow, so any links here won’t actually increase anyone’s google ranking
May 20th, 2006 at 4:17 pm
what do i click to turn it on? brain? Glitch thanks.. did u write this.. then ty twice, I think i got it though here from brain. I have perl loaded, I just need to know how to properly place the files and change them into stuff. and how to start it.
May 20th, 2006 at 4:19 pm
ok what I did was clicked the ms dos batch file to run it. It said click any button to start so I pressed enter I hope that means its running. if it is and works AWSOME JOB GUYS!!! ty for the skript and help!!!!
May 20th, 2006 at 4:30 pm
when i click the batch file it says c:/perl/bin>perl glitchcastfriendadder.plunable to open perl skript glitchcastfriendadder.pl permission denied.
c:/perl/bin>pause
press any key to continue…_
I press the space bar then it goes away. what’s that mean?
May 20th, 2006 at 4:39 pm
okokok, I had it in a seprate folder in the bin i took everything out and i think it opened the .pl now so i will see if it works now.
May 20th, 2006 at 4:52 pm
theres errors…scalar value @columns[0] better written as $columns[0] at glitchcastfriendadder.pl line 113.
scalar value @columns[0] better written as $columns[0] at glitchcastfriendadder.pl line 117.
no such file or directory at glitchcastfriendadder.pl line 57.
c:/perl/bin>pause
press any key to continue…_
that’s what it says.
May 20th, 2006 at 5:30 pm
That sounds like a good start. At line 57, it’s looking for friendPagesToScrape.txt
Have you created that file and placed it in the same directory where the perl script is?
Each line of that file should be a page that contains people you want to add
May 21st, 2006 at 4:07 am
every thing is in the bin. (where all the librarys, files, batch files, and everything is)
May 21st, 2006 at 5:15 am
i’m pretty sure you made a mistake in the name of the friendPagesToScrape.txt file name…
May 21st, 2006 at 3:47 pm
Brain
Well done for spotting the plants - how sad are they, or should i say him/her,
Glitch is just tring to spread a little help with a problem and they try to ‘jack his people.
I for one will never use their program on this basis now
http://www.friendadderpro.com/ - turkey..!
An no, i’m not Glitches mum…ha ha
I’m on a Mac, have no clue about this stuff so i’m not going to try yours Glitch, but full respect to you sir for trying help some cats out.
Respect guys
Spencer
May 21st, 2006 at 5:40 pm
ahhh…before i go…..so what is the deal with these thingz then…..only just signed up to myspace and heard about adders….I don’t know the script though….some work, some don’t, some get you banned from myspace..!
Any pointers if you get a second - no worries if you don’t though guys…you seem to have your hands full
Sp——-
May 21st, 2006 at 6:17 pm
Lots of people, bands, and companies use myspace adders like this one. It seems that the folks at myspace turn a blind eye to it, since it helps people connect and get more out of their site (ala myspace records, and now myspace comedy, etc).
There are some nastier tricks you can use to get by the captchas and add friends.
As for this script, all it does is help automate the process a bit for you. You still have to tell it who you want to add and then manually enter the captchas. Theres a hard limit of 500 friends a day before you’re not allowed to add any more or even send messages. myspace also “punishes” you for adding lots and lots of friends. The more you add in a day, the more captchas you need to fill in to prove that you’re you.
For example, you get somewhere around 25 free before the first captcha of the day, then 20, then 15, until by the end of the day, you’re entering a captcha for every other friend as you approach 500.
May 21st, 2006 at 6:30 pm
Got ya
thanks for the time mate, appreciate it.
Good luck with your podcasts
Sp——–
May 21st, 2006 at 7:32 pm
I put friendPagesToScrape.txt for the name and that’s what you have up there, but if you look the f in friends is lower case does that make a difference? I now Capst it. i’ll See if that works.
May 21st, 2006 at 7:40 pm
Still problems with 57 and 113 117 I put upper case in for friends, the name for the file is FriendsPagesToScrape.txt
Should it be TXT caps? and whats 113 and 117? my files in the bin with all the stuff its just a plain text document. There is my perl script the friendPagesToScrape.txt file the batch with another text file bat and everything eles that comes in the bin. Do i need a seprate folder for one of them? Should the txt be a batch? I dont know what eles to ask.
May 21st, 2006 at 7:45 pm
Ok, I fixed line 57
Now it says open captchas? in fire fox i have fire fox so yes or no it has a big NO ??? What are captchas? i can dictionary it.
May 21st, 2006 at 7:54 pm
day to big sec too big whats that? then it says getting info for and just sits there whats happeing?
May 21st, 2006 at 7:56 pm
ok scratch the whats happening question above its looking for friends and tring to add them but it keeps saying friend not added possibly aredy a friend and line 175 is error “addfriend”
May 21st, 2006 at 8:00 pm
yeah it goes adding friend 2342389…… not added possibly already a friend or line 175 error “addfriends” file not there. I think its the 175 error, lol …. addfriends not there. What now?
May 21st, 2006 at 8:05 pm
ohohoh, success success SUCCESSSSSSS!!!! lmao. nice thanks for everyones help. You all get a shinny nice gold metal for being nice people and helping, AND the skript. AWSOME SKRIPT IT WORKS FOR WINDOWS!!!! but these are hard working linux coder guys here, and nice ones to windows people so be thankfull
like me. Thanks
May 21st, 2006 at 8:39 pm
OK captchas suck why do they need me to know if im a human we made computers we run this thing lol. no but is there a way to bypass the captchas?
May 21st, 2006 at 10:11 pm
and is it normal to have it do a 175 error or not add friends cause already posible friend?
May 21st, 2006 at 11:47 pm
how fast does it make friends for anyone eles one here, I got like 3 friends in an hour.
May 21st, 2006 at 11:58 pm
I’ve done 500 friends in a day using this script. Be sure that you’re give it real page URLs full of people you want it to add.
May 22nd, 2006 at 1:41 am
Its saying cant add friend line 175 error or already friend ALL the time till a captcha. is that normal?
May 22nd, 2006 at 10:47 pm
Thanks I got it down. I seemed so hard before and now so easy. Thats so wierd. TY Glitch and Brain can’t wait till you updated with a captcha bypass. Goodwork.
May 24th, 2006 at 2:20 pm
I have a question : what will hppen if i add MORE than 500 friends a day??
May 24th, 2006 at 3:01 pm
It’ll just stop you. 500 is the hard limit coded into the myspace servers, and you’ll be unable to add more friends until around 4AM EST the next day.
May 24th, 2006 at 10:01 pm
The http://www.friendadderpro.com link did seem a little out of place, but I wasn’t able to work this scrpit, so I took a risk and bought it. Turns out it actually does work and for the price I paid, it was worth not going through the script hassle.
May 24th, 2006 at 10:24 pm
Multipage coming soon?
May 24th, 2006 at 11:52 pm
Hi David. If you’re an actual customer, I’d love to know it, but, once again it smells like you’re mr. or ms. “friendadderpro”.
Here’s the thing. I make no money off this. I don’t want to support it on windows. I’d be happy to talk with any company that makes a commercial product about partnering in a sensible way. I agree that a packaged, more functional product is a much better choice for those on windows. Doing something like offering “glitchcastfriendadder” visitors a discount or free trial might lead to gasp actual customers leaving real comments here.
So the deal is this. If you’re who I think you are (and judging by the comments above, who all the readers of this site think you are), you need to stop trying to pretend to be a customer, stop lying, and talk honestly and openly about who you are and why your product is better. Hell, it doesn’t take much to be better than this little script, I wrote it in a night!
I will not delete your comments as long as you’re honest. Come talk to us, or stop lying and leave this site alone. The choice is yours.
May 30th, 2006 at 10:00 pm
Can’t locate auto/Text/CSV/new.al in @INC (@INC contains: C:/Perl/lib C:/Perl/site/lib .) at GlitchCastFriendAdder.pl line 55
Can anyone help me out with what going number
June 11th, 2006 at 5:20 pm
I was using a friendbot to send out a few hundred friend invites a day on my space and other than the captcha bs, it was working pretty well. Now, I have about 3500 pending invites and even if I wait until the next day and try to send friend invites, even though it says they’ve been sent, they don’t show up in pending friends. Whether I use the bot or through the site itself now, it will not work. Has this happened to anyone else or does anyone know how to be able to start sending friend invites again?
June 17th, 2006 at 1:01 am
Hmm, I finally got it to work atleast I think.
I get adding friend 61731724…success, but when I go to my myspace page. It has the same number of friends that I started with. How long does it take for myspace to acknowledge what the script added.
June 17th, 2006 at 8:57 am
Hi Jim
Don’t forget that people need to accept your friend adds, so it may take a while before your numbers go up.
If you want to check the results of the script right away, take a look at your “pending friend requests” in myspace.
June 17th, 2006 at 9:13 am
I’m using windows and got Text:CSV and WWW:Mechnaize installed. what i did was went to ppm.activestate.com and download the build packages in zip.
For some wacky reasons, HTML:TokeParser-Simple didn’t work. After typing “ppm install HTML-TokeParser-Simple.ppd” in the cmd line, it shows me the folloing:
“Can’t call method “ok” on an undefuned value at c:/perl/site/lib/ppm/ui.pm line 881, line 17″
What’s happening? Any clue? Btw, I’m behind a proxy as well, does that matter?
Thanks!
June 18th, 2006 at 4:15 pm
How do i use this? send me an email
June 21st, 2006 at 2:42 am
How can I get it to just add girls and from my zipcode?
I don’t really want a buncha dudes on my profile.
Thanks
June 21st, 2006 at 8:39 am
lol! That’s possibly the best question on this page so far!
Well, I’ve left it simple on purpose so that you can point it to whatever pages full of profiles you want it to add.
The easiest way to do this is to find a girl in your network that has lots of other girlfriends, and then add all of them. Rinse and repeat. It’s not perfect, but it’ll get the job done.
To accomplish exactly what you want to do, I’d need to change the program a little bit to be able to use the “browse” page, but it shouldn’t be hard at all. Hmm - perhaps this will end up being version 1.3
June 23rd, 2006 at 1:31 pm
Hey, as of today does it seem like you get the captcha detected message WAY earlier. It used to be after 10 or maybe 20 users added and now it’s continually after about 3. Awesome script by the way!
June 28th, 2006 at 8:14 pm
I’m not a perl guy, dammit, I’m not even a programmer anymore, BUT I do have a script that was SUPPOSE to do the same thing that your doing with your script, BUT it also goes through other peoples pages, and grabs their friends lists, and adds them as well, and all that, allows your to use the search feature of myspace, and then grabs peoples pages from that, and many other things. So…. why am I telling you?! basically the damn thing don’t work! I figured if I can find someone else who has written a perl script, maybe I can send them the code, and maybe they can incorporate the stuff into their own script…. and guess what… I found YOU! If you like, I could email it over to you, and hopefully, you , with a little more brains than me, can turn your script into a completely KICK ASS myspace script
June 28th, 2006 at 11:40 pm
Awesome - those are all things that I was thinking about incorporating into the next version. I’d love to take a look at your stuff and hopefully find some time soon to merge them together!
Thanks!
-Eric
June 29th, 2006 at 11:46 pm
Scalar value @columns[0] better written as $columns[0] at C:\Perl\bin\GlitchCast
FriendAdder.pl line 113.
Scalar value @columns[0] better written as $columns[0] at C:\Perl\bin\GlitchCast
FriendAdder.pl line 117.
thats what mine says right when i open the script, then i type y for the captcha and music thing, then some text flashes at the bottom after i do yes for the music thing and the window closes, whats wrong?
July 1st, 2006 at 11:00 am
Friendadderpro .com is a fraud. They sell myspace suite illegally. Not to mention if you look at their terms and conditions, they say they are only providing a service. A “finder´s fee” for providing a download link. http://friendadderpro.com/authorizeddownload.html? And the activation info doesn´t even work.
July 2nd, 2006 at 11:11 pm
can someone please send me there script or something, im really lost… i really dont mess with computers…email me- ts14bm@yahoo.com thanks
July 3rd, 2006 at 8:48 pm
can i get the script caues iam lost email me at the_killer_in_the_dark@yahoo.com
July 6th, 2006 at 3:21 am
ok I understand what you do somewhat on the easy form but where do I put this form I know it may sound stupid but im usually great with computer I am just not understanding it all can someone email to be of help?
VAandRQ4@aol.com
I will return any favor ya ask dealing with myspace.
July 7th, 2006 at 11:39 pm
hi. thank you for providing the script for all of us who want to add myspace friends. your work is really appreciated. i’d like to point out to your visitors and readers that if they’re really interested in using perl to powerfully interact with myspace, to go look at the free perl module called “WWW::Myspace” - you can read about it at cpan.org. It has a few example scripts but should be something to get the appetite wet.
-pm
July 7th, 2006 at 11:54 pm
Hi PM - thanks for the info about the WWW::Myspace module. It’s growing into a great and useful tool, and the example scripts should be just as handy as this script is.
July 8th, 2006 at 3:52 am
How do I get all the adder to my myspace.I need a crap lode of friends but cant find out how!
July 11th, 2006 at 3:35 am
I just wanted to also add to cpan people, that there is another perl module, with more features too.
its called (as printed) WWW::Myspace
I got glitch to work on a older comp but on my fedora core it was a no go, searched around and found WWW::Myspace, warning it needs tons of prequisites and dependancies but its all gold trust me.
July 13th, 2006 at 4:19 pm
[...] Read the detailed instructions here, if you are facing any problems or need support from the author. [...]
July 14th, 2006 at 12:40 am
where do you paste this script at?
July 14th, 2006 at 2:17 pm
I just wanted to say thanks for this great tool! I’ve had it up and running using Windows XP and ActivePerl 5.8.8 for the past week and it seems to be running flawlessly.
The only slight difference I noticed is that, in Windows, the “::” is replaced with a “-” when installing the Perl modules. So, what is listed here as “WWW::Mechanize” can’t be found by ActivePerl, but “WWW-Mechanize” can.
I hope this helps someone else!
Thank you again!
July 16th, 2006 at 4:43 am
can sum one help me i have no idea what im doin here i downloaded the prel thing thtsa as far as i got
July 17th, 2006 at 10:18 pm
Anyone know why I’m getting these errors?
Getting info for http://home.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewfriends&f
riendID=6221
There is no form named “addFriend” at myspace.pl line 175
Adding friend 11…Not Added. (possibly already a friend, esp if addFriend form
was not found above)
There is no form named “addFriend” at myspace.pl line 175
July 17th, 2006 at 10:20 pm
Forgot to mention that I renamed the perl file myspace.pl for ease of running it.
July 18th, 2006 at 5:37 pm
First of all, thanks for taking time to share this script and thanks for taking time to help explain it to people unfamiliar with perl. So…I altered the script with my userinfo and took out the \ and everything. When I run the batch file I get the following every time:C:\PROGRA~1\perl>perl GlitchCastFriendAdder.pl
Can’t locate WWW/Mechanize.pm in @INC (@INC contains: C:/Program Files/perl/lib
C:/Program Files/perl/site/lib .) at GlitchCastFriendAdder.pl line 32.
BEGIN failed–compilation aborted at GlitchCastFriendAdder.pl line 32.What do you think?
July 20th, 2006 at 9:24 am
BrainWave thanxz for the info, very good details.. and glitch… sweet work, keep up the good work
July 22nd, 2006 at 1:14 am
I’ve been lovin’ your script, but it just stopped working for me. Did MySpace make a change? The error I know get is: “No clickable input with name loginbutton at C:/Perl/site/lib/WWW/Mechanize.pm line 707″
Thanks .. any help is appreciated.
Matt
July 22nd, 2006 at 5:06 am
I would like to add that I appreciate this script and all the help. I am having the same problem as damion two posts up I get..
D:\Perl\Adder>myspaceadd.pl
Can’t locate http://WWW.pm in @INC (@INC contains: D:/Perl/lib D:/Perl/site/lib .) at D
:\Perl\Adder\MySpaceAdd.pl line 32.
BEGIN failed–compilation aborted at D:\Perl\Adder\MySpaceAdd.pl line 32.
I would really like to get this script running, any help would be greatly appreciated!
July 22nd, 2006 at 7:38 am
NEVERMIND. I figured it out. The changed their “loginbutton” to something else, I’ve edited the .pl, it’s all good!
Peace,
Matt
July 22nd, 2006 at 8:01 am
Ugh… Matt how did you fix that “No clickable input with name loginbutton at C:/Perl/site/lib/WWW/Mechanize.pm line 707″ error? I’m getting tha same error.
July 22nd, 2006 at 11:05 am
Replace the click(”loginbutton” line with :
$agent->click(’ctl00$Main$SplashDisplay$login$loginbutton’);
Then it’s all set!
Matt
July 22nd, 2006 at 1:04 pm
Thank you! It’s working now
July 22nd, 2006 at 3:29 pm
Thanks Matt! I haven’t had any time recently to work on this, but since the script had broken for everybody I took a few minutes today to incorporate your login string. Version 1.3 should work again, please remember to reconfigure the script with your login name and password once you re-download.
-Eric
July 23rd, 2006 at 1:31 pm
this is really awesome, i was gonna try to create a friend adder in visual basic but havent used it in so long i tried searching for a open source and found this, ive never used perl before but reading the whole forumn i got this to work pretty easy, the only problem i have is it’ll add about 1-5 people then the program closes to fast for me to read any err, and some profiles cause certain errs when others dont, im guessing they might have there myspace page modified so the program aint reading the page right i dunno lol
July 25th, 2006 at 1:11 am
Hi, im trying to try out your script but i keep getting the following error:
Can’t locate object method “new” via package “Text::CSV” at GlitchCastFriendAdder.pl line 58,
What could be causing this, ive installed the latest CSV module using cpan. Looks like method new() isnt a valid method in the package CSV unless i’m missing something.
July 31st, 2006 at 6:14 am
very nice
August 1st, 2006 at 10:39 am
Good starting point, thanks for the script, and interesting site by the way..
~c
August 4th, 2006 at 6:30 pm
Cool that you guys finally fixed the bug. I had discovered it and fixed it myself, I am suprised the line worked:
$agent->click(’ctl00$Main$SplashDisplay$login$loginbutton’);
there must be a difference between ‘ and ” in perl, because i had tried to replace the line with:
$agent->click(”ctl00$Main$SplashDisplay$login$loginbutton”);
and it had failed. however, this line worked as well:
$agent->click(”ctl00\$Main\$SplashDisplay\$login\$loginbutton”);
too late to tell you now, I guess… just think that is kind of an odd thing for a programming language.
August 5th, 2006 at 2:54 pm
[...] I have not found a single adder or prog that is made for linux. Correction, had. This open source adder, though i have not used it yet, is Perl based and yes virginia it is complicated. So no, dont use it if you dont know what the hell Perl is. Till i get a chance to check it out…you check it out. enjoy. GlitchCast Friend Adder You can also bookmark this on del.icio.us or check the cosmos [...]
August 6th, 2006 at 1:07 pm
I am new to perl using a Mac platform and I found it ultimately impossible to implement your code.. thanks for supporting Macs…
August 14th, 2006 at 7:56 am
hello i was wondering if you could make a script for http://www.mycrib.net
it is a new frined networking site with over 250.000 people on it and it was started at the begining of this year so yeah was wondering if you might be intrested in it email if you can thanks.
August 15th, 2006 at 1:18 pm
I tried using the script on windows, but it doesn’t seems to work.
August 16th, 2006 at 12:34 am
Rumor has it that http://www.friendsnest.com is coming out with a better version august 20th
September 7th, 2006 at 10:16 am
Uh. rumor has it friendsnest blows and is just another flaming turnkey social network site.
This program is awesome, Glitch, thanks so much for helping to further the adding commumity, i posted a while back on my website, http://www.botreviewer.com, concerning your program. Killer man. Keep up the great ideas and great work!
September 11th, 2006 at 1:17 am
Nice script, i played around with it a bit today and noticed the captcha thing being a big problem with adding mass amounts of friends. I also noticed most of the pay programs get around this so after a little investigation i figured out how. They simply send an email to a fake address using the “Invite” page on the myspace nav. After doing this you dont get the captchas (at least until you do a few more requests ;).
Now fair warning, I’ll have to admit i’m a php/javascript programmer and havent really messed with perl before this, but i tried to make a little work around for automatically inviting to a fake email. This may help a more experienced programmer in this project…. Heres the code. I inserted this at the same area that your script usually opens up firefox… I don’t know if the mytoken thing will have an affect on this code, but like i said i’m not experienced with this sort of thing. It works for me however…
Generating a random email address, works but could be cleaned up im sure
my $remail=rand(5) . ‘@’ . rand(5) . ‘.com’;
$agent->field( “f_recipients”, $remail);
$agent->submit();
sleep 2;
$agent->get(”http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=invite.addfriend_verify&friendID=$key”);
October 3rd, 2006 at 9:22 am
Is this download still available?
October 5th, 2006 at 10:40 pm
how can i download this?
message me on myspace.com/aldoissexy
October 11th, 2006 at 6:46 pm
Hello.
Did MySpace put captchas on every single one of their friend request forms now? It sure seems like it.
Also, Jesse’s script is cool but I don’t think it works anymore either.
Does anybody have any ideas?
October 16th, 2006 at 12:02 am
hey jesse i tried that code and i couldnt get it to work, i dunno if its not pasting right or what, im kinda mixed up did u delete the old lines and replace it with the new or just add it in, could u email me the whole script as a text (dont forget to remove your username and pw if u do) melodicmizery@aol.com
October 22nd, 2006 at 1:55 pm
p.s. im on windows and it never opens firefox for captchas or podcast
October 29th, 2006 at 2:16 am
wouldnt it be easier for you to just throw in the damn source code???
November 12th, 2006 at 8:58 pm
I have used this myspace adder in the past it was decent but the codes on myspace have changed is there a new myspace adder?
November 21st, 2006 at 9:14 pm
I get the following error on Windows XP:
“Day too big - 2932896 > 24855
Sec too big - 2932896 > 11647
Getting info for http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofil
e&friendid=452345
Can’t locate object method “get_attr” via package “HTML::TokeParser::Simple::Tok
en” at test.cgi line 134, line 1.”
It’s a shame, it looks like a very good script.
December 1st, 2006 at 2:30 pm
ya the invite trick doesnt seem to work anymore, and myspace is constantly updating its pages so you cant use software like this. Really sucks, guess everyone will have to wait until something new comes along.
December 2nd, 2006 at 6:05 am
yah ive noticed other programs aint working either
December 2nd, 2006 at 6:06 am
well at least i got 1,500 friends before it stopped lmao
December 14th, 2006 at 10:27 pm
Hey…I’m new to programming and as of this writing….have yet to execute a god damn thing! But, I’m not a quitter and I am self taught, so with any luck i’ll be programming by tyhe year 2010. Is there any advice yoyu could throw towards the sel taught? I amm dedicated to learning, and I’ve centered my first projects on a bot of this sort. Your code has opened up the basics for me…vocab. and shit liuke that…I haven’t gotten it running yet, but I’ll figure it out.inet connection is nada right now. At any rate…if you’d like to check out my multiple personality’s I have as a musician…please check me out at this starting point and follow the links….I still occupy some teen angst. Peace out.
http://www.myspace.com/trashtmusic
http://www.myspace.com/elainecorrals
http://www.myspace.com/objectsinmirrors
http://www.myspace.com/thesurfaces
http://www.myspace.com/thedata
or a home…
http://www.trashtmusic.com
December 15th, 2006 at 5:35 am
I installed activeperl and i cant find the packages.Can somebody put a user guide up? This is way too hard.
December 15th, 2006 at 2:12 pm
hello every body!
I am from Paris/France
And i am a musician who need to make “friends”…
I use Windows and don’t know nothing about Perl but a little about dos. I have download your script, made a pl file but…
Where can i download the program who allow your script to work in Dos please?
Best regards & bravo!
December 25th, 2006 at 5:21 am
Hey people… this still works. I used it a couple of days ago.
December 25th, 2006 at 7:09 am
your right it works again, musta been somethign myspace was messing with
December 27th, 2006 at 8:10 am
Hey guys. Well, I got it to add one person today, TOM, LOL…dang I did not want him! I deleted him for a reason
So when it says:
Adding friend FRIEND_ID…captcha detected. Go add a friend manually.
Here’s the current page:
http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=invite.addfriend_verify&friendID=FRIEND_ID
what do you have to do? I cant get it to work…when it redirects to that page in Firefox what do I do then…I have tried about everything I can think of for the last 10 minutes and nothing is working!
Advice?
On Windows XP machine with Firefox 2.0 and using ActivePerl 5.8
December 29th, 2006 at 12:55 pm
Hello!
I tried hard and harder, but i am an absolute newb in perl, but i get so far, that i only have one error-msg left…. new.al file is missing.
Cant locate auto/Text/CSV/new.al …
PLEASE HELP!!!! i have windows 2000 and i have no idea how to make this script work!
greetz
December 30th, 2006 at 7:55 am
People who know Bob Miller here?
need icq nubmer of bob miller
December 30th, 2006 at 8:07 am
useful piece of software..
January 1st, 2007 at 11:56 am
ok it runs perfectly now!
one more question left… the urls should be like this:
http://home.myspace.com/Modules/ViewFriends/FriendsView.aspx?friendID=11970182
http://home.myspace.com/Modules/ViewFriends/FriendsView.aspx?friendID=68169157
http://home.myspace.com/Modules/ViewFriends/FriendsView.aspx?friendID=7264752
now someone mentioned to change the “page-variable” … where the hell is this pagevariable??? AND how do i make the prog understand, that i want ALL friends (page 1 - xxxxxx) and not only the first shown friends in the list….????
please help!
thx
January 2nd, 2007 at 3:45 pm
please - what do i have to do to add ALL friends of one User?? not only the first page… there is a user with 200000 friends, but he adds only about 20 or something… what’s wrong?
greets
void
January 5th, 2007 at 3:01 am
I know why it is not working.
The &page= has changed on myspace.
I don’t know what the fix is.
Now you get the same page no matter what.
I noticed this cause it was trying to add LOW number ID’s no matter how many lines I deleted in my “FriendPagesToScrape.txt” (which has 580 lines; one for each page to be scraped.)
I don’t add friends randomly.
I was targeting specific friends interested in music.
I know myspace had to make some changes (for security albeit) but damn, they are progressivly making it less and less useful. How you going to promote your stuff with all the limits they keep adding.
I don’t want to go the mail / spam style of adding friends. e.g. instead of requesting, sending messages.
They need to loosen up that captcha too. This is nuts. May have millions of users on myspace, but they have made it impossible to add them in your 100 years lifetime. (Maybe my math is skewed, but how the hell are you going to get high numbers of friends now?)
Like the big labels do.
Oh well, I am just a late arrival to myspace. only about 5000 friends. Been using Glitchcaster since v1.2 I been getting headaches late at night between the problems on myspace (Servers down) and the captcha. If myspace don’t lossen up the freaking productivity on their stuff, I will probably just quit using it. I don’t have the TIME each day to screw with it like this.
Never the less, thanks for GlitchCaster.pl it was good while it lasted. Not to say it doesn’t work, It DOES WORK.
It’s just impossible to feed it a decent list now. (Not GlitchNYC’s fault. Myspace’s fault.)
I am sure some java/javascript guru knows how to cull page after page of ViewFriend pages, I tried some code hacking, by looking at the new method myspace is using,
javascript:__doPostBack(’ctl00$cpMain$pagerTop’,'2′)
This is the problem. I don’t know the fix.
I tried different variations on it
&ctl00&cpMain&pagetTop=2
No joy.
If someone has the magic numbers…DO post Back
(pun intended)
;o)
January 5th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
Partial Solution,
More Questions.
If you load the following page.
You get TONS of FriendID’s
(I’ll make a pot of coffee while you load it)
http://home.myspace.com/Modules/ViewFriends/FriendsView.aspx?friendID=10284&__EVENTTARGET=ctl00cpMainpagerTop&__EVENTARGUMENT=29
Done? Damn (cough) okay?
Okay, how do we track this data now, or use this data to make GlitchCaster work PROPER again?
January 6th, 2007 at 10:57 pm
Hey, i found out why the script wasn’t working anymore !
They’ve added a redirection page after the login form submission.
So i just applied this little patch and now it works fine again…
Just after this line:
$agent->click(’ctl00$Main$SplashDisplay$login$loginbutton’);
add this one:
$agent->follow_link(url_regex => qr/login2.myspace.com/);
Another detail. Under MacOS X, use this syntax to open captchas in firefox:
system(”open -a firefox http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=invite.addfriend_verify\\&friendID=$clef”);
You don’t need to specify the path to the executable because MacOS remembers it, but you must specify the right UNIX command, which is: ‘open -a theApp theUrl’.
You’ll notice that i made it work on a Mac, which in fact is VERY simple, since ActivePerl is available for this OS.
I just installed it, then used CPAN to install the required modules.
After a few tutorials about Perl, i was on my way !
Thanks a lot for this wonderful and instructive script !
January 6th, 2007 at 11:01 pm
Sorry, but the code is being modified by the reply-engine…
the right syntax:
$agent->followUNDERSCORElink(urlUNDERSCOREregex => qr/login2.myspace.com/);
and for the command:
system(”open -a firefox http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=invite.addfriend_verify\&friendID=$value”);
I just forgot that i had translated the variable names…
January 7th, 2007 at 3:52 am
Hey Glitch, love the script, thanks for sharing it. I haven’t tried Jules’ fix above, yet but I’ll report back if it works for me.
Anyway, mainly as a way of teaching myself perl, and also because I’m lazy, I wrote this little script to autopopulate my friendPagesToScrape.txt file. You just enter the friend ID of the person whose friends you want to scrape, and how many pages of friends they have, and this script spits the URLs right into your text file, one per line. As you’ll see, i totally suck at perl, but it works! Please accept it as my humble gift.
Peace.
!/usr/local/bin/perl
These meager lines of code were written by BigDaddy sometime in the last few days of the year
2006; that is, if you can even use the word “write” to describe a process that was more like
groping around in the dark than “writing.” Still, it does work. So here it is.
You’re free to do whatever you want with it.
Did I mention it works?
$pagenum=0;
print “Tell me the friend ID you want to scrape: “;
chomp($friendID=);
print “And how many pages of friends do they have? “;
$pages=;
print_friend_url;
sub print_friend_url;
print “Done.\n”;
January 7th, 2007 at 4:02 am
Oh, god, what’s it done to the formatting? And what are all those weird characters? (No, not you guys, I mean the text!)
Gee, can I post HTML here? Let’s see:
!/usr/local/bin/perl
These meager lines of code were written by BigDaddy sometime in the last few days of the year
2006; that is, if you can even use the word “write” to describe a process that was more like
groping around in the dark than “writing.” Still, it does work. So here it is.
You’re free to do whatever you want with it.
Did I mention it works?
$pagenum=0;
print “Tell me the friend ID you want to scrape: “;
chomp($friendID=);
print “And how many pages of friends do they have? “;
$pages=;
print_friend_url;
sub print_friend_url;
print “Done.\n”;
January 7th, 2007 at 4:09 am
Damn. I tried sticking it inside textarea tags but no dice.
It really does work, too. Now no one’s gonna believe me.
Anyone who wants, email me at fox_ntamwp@trashmail.net and I’ll send you the script, which, while it scarcely deserves to be called a “script,” most definitely works. And looks nothing like the mess above.
January 7th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
Regarding the change to Myspace’s login page: it’s not just redirecting, it seems to be redirecting through an https URL and then on to the the main page. So the question is, does WWW::Mechanize support SSL?
January 10th, 2007 at 4:52 am
bbbooooooouuuuuhhhhhh!!!!!!!!
This doesn’t works!!!
OOOOoouuuuiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!
January 10th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
Hey Glitch, thank you so much for making this script available to all! I think I have it working on Windows as I see it running through the profiles, but I get the same error messages for each one:
There is no form named “addFriend” at GlitchCastFriendAdder.pl line 183 Adding friend at 123456…Not added (Possibly friend already added, especially if addFriend form not found above)
Suggestions readily appreciated
January 10th, 2007 at 7:03 pm
i have exactly the same problem!
There is no form named “addFriend” at GlitchCastFriendAdder.pl line 183 Adding friend at 12345678…Not added(Possibly friend already added, especially if addFriend form not found above)
January 12th, 2007 at 2:22 am
I have successfully creating a new version of myspace add progrma using Glith’s version and achieved the following:
1. Captha Bypass
2. Running on windows platform
Tested on windows XP professional, windows XP Home as well as window ME
3. Users do not need to prepare any input, friend id will be generated by the program
4. Users only need to modify the name/password/his ownid field(his own myspace id field is used to bypass captha feature, otherwise this is not a must).
5. This program is developed for those really lazy users who do not want to provide the scraptid file and key in captha code
How to get the source code:
Click
http://www.iupt.com, in right side below lady chatting robot, look for open source myspace add friend link
My blog:
iupt blog
January 13th, 2007 at 12:58 am
IUPT: Am I to understand that your script generates random friend IDs and then adds them?!?
January 13th, 2007 at 4:32 am
OK, that’s just nutty. Why would you want add people at random?
In the interests of sanity, I hacked together my own working update of the full Glitchcast script. This one includes a remedy for Myspace’s new SSL login and adds a feature to autopopulate your URL text file. It’s the whole script, folks, and it should work just as nicely as the old Glitch script did.
To get it go to http://www.CenterHub.info and scroll down to the bottom of the page. And if you want to make Big Daddy really happy, click on one of those ads while you’re over there!
Peace.
January 13th, 2007 at 7:52 pm
Thanks for sharing Big Daddy, but where does one get Net::SSleay from? It’s not included in ActivePerl 5.8.8
January 14th, 2007 at 8:46 pm
Open source is about freedom and choice. For those like to use the original interface , here is my updated version based on Eric’s verion 1.3 but incoporating captha bypass and myspace change fix:
How to get the source code:
Click
http://www.iupt.com, in right side below lady chatting robot, look for open source myspace add friend link. Download version 4.
My blog:
iupt blog
To my opinion, it is best to seperate the creating of input file from the program. Then you do not need to be asked the question every time you run the program. You can the generate input file program when the add friends program is working .
For those really really lazy type, you can still download version 3.
January 15th, 2007 at 5:34 am
Great job, IUPT! Your captcha bypass still isn’t working for me, though. I’m going to keep playing with it. In the meantime I hacked together another version that now gives the option at startup of whether to scrape friends from a text file or whether to input a particular friend ID and then just scrape all of their friends. Also, when a friend is not added, the program can now explain whether it’s because that person is already a friend, whether there is a friend request already pending, or if it is a profile that does not accept friend requests from strangers. Also fixed a bug that was stopping Firefox from opening captchas.
And to N9nthdegree, I think Net::SSLeay is part of the standard perl 5.8.7 installation for Linux… for the active state perl you may have to use Crypt::SSLeay.
go get it at http://www.CenterHub.info
January 15th, 2007 at 5:36 pm
Big Daddy…I’m occassionally getting this:
Can’t call method “make_request” on an undefined value at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/WWW/Mechanize.pm
It then crashes.
Any ideas?
January 15th, 2007 at 5:40 pm
Glitch, with yours I got:
No clickable input with name loginbutton at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/WWW/Mechanize.pm line 1404
January 15th, 2007 at 5:43 pm
Oh sorry, I see there is a fix for the latter problem.
January 15th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
Thanks Big Daddy, but I already tried, Crypt::SSLeay doesn’t come with Active Perl either. I’ve downloaded a copy of Net::SSLeay, but to install it is a next issue, the installation directed me to openssl.org but even there it says SSleay (both versions) are no longer supported, apparently its illegal to use it in certain parts of the world, which is why some Perl versions come without it installed. Gutted! I’m going to see if any earlier versions of Active Perl contain the necessary files. If not, I guess I’m up the creek. Fingers crossed.
January 20th, 2007 at 3:16 am
im really new to this i downloaded activpearl Windows (x86_64 AMD64 is that right? and i dont get how to download GlitchCastFriendAdder 1.3 it just shows a text page what do i do with that? thanks
January 21st, 2007 at 10:58 pm
So, I got Big Daddy’s script running…hell yeah looks good.
One thing - looks like MySpace switched their URLs for viewing friends. Now it doesn’t accept a page id to move from different friend view pages.
Anyone know a work around for this?
January 22nd, 2007 at 3:29 pm
i dont get any of this i guess imma noob if someone is kind enough to walk me threw all this email me at grim_jay2000@yahoo.com
January 22nd, 2007 at 11:42 pm
Try the work around by downloading My version 3 of myspace friend adder with captcha bypass. This works well in windows XP pro/XP home/ME environment. This version does not need to scroll page. My version 4 is based on the original Eric’s verion 1.3 and added captcha bypass and use the same interface as Eric’s version. Both version works in Windows Environment with active state perl installed.
How to get the source code:
Click
http://www.iupt.com, in right side below lady chatting robot ( lady chatbot ), look for open source myspace add friend link. scroll one page down and choose Download version 4 or version 3 as your choice
My blog link:
iupt blog
January 25th, 2007 at 1:01 am
The problem with the friend ID search is that Myspace closed the loophole I was using in the script and Perl won’t follow a Javascript link. So there you go.
However, I’ve posted a new version that incorporates keyword search, so at least there’s some functionality there that may be of use. Choose option 3 at startup and it will prompt you to enter your keywords and how many pages of results you want. It will then begin adding the friend IDs that resulted from the search. Give it a spin!
Get it at http://www.CenterHub.info
Also, if anyone has gotten IUPT’s captcha bypass to work, let me know. It doesn’t work for me at all. Also, they just changed the captchas!
January 25th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
Hey everyone, good news! I’ve figured out a way to emulate clicking the JavaScript “Next” link on someone’s “View All Friends” page. I don’t have time to write the code just yet but hopefully later tonight I will. I’ll post an update here to let you know when updated script is up.
January 25th, 2007 at 7:25 pm
By the way, if anyone downloaded my script today, there was a typo and a couple of other minor issues which I’ve now fixed so there’s a fresh version up right now; you should replace the one from earlier today with the current one.
Or just wait till tomorrow when hopefully I’ll have an update that incorporates my ingenious workaround for the JavaScript problem.
January 25th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
Hello;
I am newbie and don’t know anything about Perl,
eventually installed Perl on my machine (win xp pro)
and managed to installed the needed the modules,
now little confused on how to run this?
do I have to run this from the browser? if so HOW?
on some of the comments above it has been menssioned about the firefox catch, this does make me confued,
Please give some hint, on how to use the script,
thanks
January 26th, 2007 at 9:25 am
Big Daddy:
I appriciate the work you have done with this open source project. However the captcha bypass doesn’t work for me. I have everything correctly installed and I suspect that the problem is in the code itself. Does the captcha bypass work for you? Any tips on how to make it work?
Thanks…
January 26th, 2007 at 9:27 am
This is what I keep getting:
Adding friend 77048610…captcha detected, try to bypass
There is no form named “addFriend” at iuptaddfriend.pl line 172
January 28th, 2007 at 4:41 am
snowfox88, you are using the IUPT, not mine! My verions uses the same captcha code as the original Glitchcast adder, which is to say that it only opens captchas in Firefox where you then handle them manually. I have never gotten the IUPT captcha bypass to work either.
January 28th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
Awsome programming Big Daddy! Keep us updated if you make some changes to the program.
January 28th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
I forgot to say that I clicked some of your google ads
January 29th, 2007 at 2:11 am
The message does no harm :”There is no form named “addFriend” at iuptaddfriend.pl line 172″. The important thing is that you should see new lines of adding friends that bypassed the captcha using iuptfriendadder . Either by version 4 or version 3. Do note that this scripts are running in windows XP pro/XP home+active state perl 5.8.6. Below are samples of output: (today’s REAL running screen shot)
Adding friend 75130209…success
Adding friend 39780504…success
Adding friend 84688647…success
Adding friend 38498454…captcha detected, try to bypass
There is no form named “addFriend” at iuptaddfriendv4.pl line 172
Not Added. (possibly already a friend, esp if addFriend form was not found above
)
Adding friend 18874905…success
Adding friend 37897305…success
Adding friend 152195951…success
Adding friend 39966685…success
Adding friend 29873250…captcha detected, try to bypass
There is no form named “addFriend” at iuptaddfriendv4.pl line 172
Not Added. (possibly already a friend, esp if addFriend form was not found above
)
Adding friend 74797341…Not Added. (possibly already a friend, esp if addFrien
d form was not found above)
Adding friend 83087320…success
Adding friend 151137510…success
Adding friend 1659406…success
Adding friend 110983804…success
Adding friend 47533117…captcha detected, try to bypass
There is no form named “addFriend” at iuptaddfriendv4.pl line 172
Not Added. (possibly already a friend, esp if addFriend form was not found above
)
Adding friend 56257478…success
Adding friend 2738013…success
Adding friend 63210774…success
Adding friend 106256644…success
So if you are using windows XP/XP Home/ME, it should work.
How to get code:
Click
http://www.iupt.com in right side below lady chatting robot ( lady chatbot ), look for open source myspace add friend link. scroll one page down and choose Download version 4 or version 3 as your choice
My blog link:
iupt blog
January 29th, 2007 at 2:58 am
IUPT I am using Linux distro Ubuntu. So for me it doesn’t work. It just repeats the “There is no form” when it finds the first captcha.
January 29th, 2007 at 9:49 pm
I think you are using iuptfriendadder for myspace version 4.0 . Before I come out a debug version for you ( I do not have access to Ubuntu distribution), may I ask a simple question: Do you replace my $myid = YOURID ? This is important for otherwise the bypass will not work.
http://www.iupt.com
January 29th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
Oh, If you are using my original version 3, then you may keep getting the “There is no form named “addFriend” at iuptaddfriend.pl line 172″ and not bypass. For there is a change in myspace captcha and I have updated both versions some time back and my website is latest now for I download them and run in windows plateform and works.
To answer the question of how to run in windows:
1. open a dos window by start->run->cmd
cd \path
perl iuptaddfriendv4.pl (for verion 4)
perl iuptaddfriend.pl (ver version 3)
If the above does not work, type perl full path:
c:\perl\bin\perl iuptaddfriendv4.pl
January 31st, 2007 at 3:43 am
Thanks IUPT for the update,
I did try the script v.4 and run it two days ago, it starts working and the text that showed up was just like the text that you posted, then stoped and a text say to write captcha, any way,
the next day after restarting my computer, i tried it again, this time it was an error on line 117, and 121, but before i could read the whole error lots of text start to scroll fast, eventully I stoped the scroll and copied the text, but all text was not copied, the first part was gone, the rest is this:
The page cannot be found
The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or i
s temporarily unavailable.
Please try the following:
Make sure that the Web site address displayed in the address bar of your bro
wser is spelled and formatted correctly.
If you reached this page by clicking a link, contact
the Web site administrator to alert them that the link is incorrectly formatted
.
Click the Back button to try anothe
r link.
HTTP Error 404 - File or directory not found.Internet Information Servic
es (IIS)
Technical Information (for support personnel)
Go to Microsoft Produc
t Support Services and perform a title search for the words HTTP and
404.
Open IIS Help, which is accessible in IIS Manager (inetmgr),
and search for topics titled Web Site Setup, Common Administrative Ta
sks, and About Custom Error Messages.
any idea what is the problem?
thanks
January 31st, 2007 at 6:12 am
Do you mean you are able to run the script two days back but have problem today? It may due to your ISP connection. I have tried today and the script works fine. Just try tomorrow and see whether you get the error again
February 1st, 2007 at 3:58 pm
Big Daddy:
When I prepare the input file, do I paste the urls in separate lines? I use one enter, but somehow it only uses the first link when it adds friends. Can you help me??
February 2nd, 2007 at 6:24 am
Firefox won’t pop open when it hits the first myspace captcha now. How do we fix that?
February 2nd, 2007 at 12:13 pm
Mike Big Daddy fixed the popup thing in his own version of this friend adder.
You can get if from here: http://www.CenterHub.info
The only problem with this version is that it always scarpes the same page even I have other pages in the .txt file.
February 2nd, 2007 at 12:32 pm
Fuck the myspace staff and for them, my very very baddest wishes!
they blocks any glitch now! Big Daddy or iutp doesn’t works for anyway !!!
I am leaving myspace for another less restrictive space…
Good chance
i am fed up of all that shit
Anyway there is so more freaks on myspace!
February 2nd, 2007 at 7:38 pm
Perhaps sometime in the near future, this script could become an multiplatform application with a GUI…
my two copper pieces
February 2nd, 2007 at 11:27 pm
Hello everybody,
does this work or not?
many people have problem with it,
is there someone out there that can report if this
accually works?
come on guys!
I am not even sure if what I have tried has been
a correct way,
I run this using DOS Shell and get errors ,
it did work once and then stopped,
do i have to have my browser open?
what else should I do?
here is the text from dos shell:
C:\Perl\bin>perl addfriend.pl
Scalar value @columns[0] better written as $columns[0] at addfriend.pl line 117.
Scalar value @columns[0] better written as $columns[0] at addfriend.pl line 121.
No such file or directory at addfriend.pl line 73.
I named the file as addfriend.pl
thanks.
February 2nd, 2007 at 11:32 pm
OH of forgot to add, I did resolved the last error on file that can not be found, but it is still same error and bunch of html codes, and that I have posted above.
February 3rd, 2007 at 12:42 am
The error you got is missing or incorrectly spelled input file.
you Just need to open dos shell. No need to open brower.
Are you trying the latest iuptaddfriendv4.0?
Download from http://www.iupt.com under Lady Chatbot, Myspace addfriend.
February 3rd, 2007 at 4:54 am
thanks IUPT,
Yes that was miss spelled, but the major problem still there,
yes I used ver 4.0,
today I run ver 3.0, and it started to work,
after it was finnished, i copied the text from DOS shell,and totally added 117,
then showed this message:
http://www.iupt.com: captcha detected.
http://www.iupt.com: can not bypass captcha ,After manually add one friend, press enter here to continue
so I run it again, no luck, I guess it is done for tonight,
why I the Ver 4.0 does not work?
how this suppose to work in terms of adding friends,
I did extracted the friend Id using badderAdder, about 2000 randomly, then copied them into the ‘FriendPageToScrap’, but when running was done and I looked at the friend IDs, the numbers did not match to the friend ids I had, actually the numbers were sequencial, like: 33556981,33556982,33556983,33556984, etc..,
Is this suppose to be this way?
thanks
February 3rd, 2007 at 5:16 am
Oh man,
what a major misunderstanding,
even I don’t know about Perl, but I started to read
the code, and eventully realized that I sould not put the frinds Id in the text file, it should be url of the friend page,
so I did and replaced it, and run it and it started to work, now ver 4 is working for me,
I just wonder how long this can go and run for adding friends?
thanks
February 3rd, 2007 at 5:10 pm
well, after adding friends, lots of it, today I noticed
i got so many messages in my ibox from myself with subject and message in body: ‘hi from me’,
any ieda?
thanks
February 4th, 2007 at 9:17 am
congratulation! That means the captha script is working perfect for you! I am glad you are running iuptaddfriend script with captcha bypass working!
The iuptaddfriendv3.0 is using sequencial id. The iuptaddfriendv4.0 is using the url from input file. If you see “Hi from me” that means the captcha bypass is working! Don’t you see the line says” Trying to bypass captcha” and then it says “successful” for new entries? It means it is succussful. But there is a limit of how far it can bypass before myspace set the hard limit. That is why you get the message:” need to manually add one friend and press enter to continue”
How to Download iuptaddfriendv4 (Myspace add friend bot with captha bypass:
Goto http://www.iupt.com, Below lady chatting robot (lady chatbot), click opensource myspace add friend link.
February 4th, 2007 at 9:23 am
Another thing to take note: Myspace kept a counter of how many friends you have added for each day. So you you can not have more than 500 per day.
February 4th, 2007 at 11:39 am
Well, i have used Mojodaddy’s modification, IUPT’s and GlitchCastFriendAdder but…
On Mojodady’s modification, the “Add friends from URLs stored in a text file” does not work — besides that everything else works like GlitchCastFriendAdder
on IUPT’s modification, the captcha feature doent not work — adding friends works though
I tried Mojodaddy’s modification first because it had the “add friends from urls in a text file feature” such as the URL http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=1234567
since i already had the friendid’s that i had gathered using the browse feature in myspace and some program that extracted friend id’s and saved them into a file.
And well… in the scripts i tried using a browse url such as
in the “friendpagestoscrape.txt”
and all three scripts worked, they added friends, but not the ones found in the “browse” url it and, it added some random ID’s
I was wandering if I could make a request to the scripters to make their scripts parse a txt files such as “friendsURLiwanttoadd.txt” with url’s like these found in the text file then add each friend from their url
friendsURLiwanttoadd.txt:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=1234567
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=1234567
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=1234567
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=1234567
And/Or make just a simple ID stractor specially for the “browse myspace url” even if it just sxtracts the friends id one page at a time.
I would have done all these myself, but sadly im only a newb…
February 5th, 2007 at 1:39 am
thanks a lot, it is working just fine,
it is just you have to let it work until stopped,
then you know myspace has stopped you and you reached your limit of 500.
you can not set it 500 or whatever.
and another thing does not keep a log either, it would be nice that when the script send a add frined, it makes log or something to keep the track of sent ids , this way it does not send repeated request again.
I had this problem before, that the software that I had did not keep the send ids, and I got lots of nasty messages that say:
> hey i don’t want you as friend OK? stop asking like this
February 6th, 2007 at 10:49 am
Is there anyone here for paste the ultimate well working version of this code ?
Actually I download “Crypt-SSLeay-0.53_02″ and obtain some “certs”, “lib”, “t”, “eg” etc. + some files which i don’t know where to install
Please S.O.S.!
February 7th, 2007 at 1:26 am
How can i put this in a very non-homosexual way… I FUCKIN LOVE YOU GUYS thank you so much for this script extremely appreciated!!!!
February 14th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
Hospice,
if you install camelperl, most of the module are easy to install, you use PPM which is inbuilt,
you have to have OpenSSL installed to be able to install some modules, if you have difficulty installing that there is a windows version of it, install it first and then PerlCamel, those module that can not be installed using PPM you can install it from dos shell,
this forum can be also helpful:
http://www.cpanforum.com/
good luck,
February 15th, 2007 at 12:39 am
I’m using Ubuntu and am geting all kinds of errros, i.e.
Day too big - 2238936 > 24855
Sec too big - 2238936 > 11647
and
There is no form named “addFriend” at GlitchCastFriendAdder.pl line 183
I’m not sure that it worked. How wold I know?
February 15th, 2007 at 12:47 am
Never mind. I had the wrong file ….
February 18th, 2007 at 12:49 am
Hi Iupt,
I got your version working. My only issue is that the manual bypass for the captcha isn’t working for me.
I am running WinXP pro, with firefox.
Is there a place in the script to tell it where Firefox is for the captcha?
If not, now worries, I am just thankful for Glitch’s original script, and your addition.
thanks!
February 19th, 2007 at 9:43 pm
I was using this script and adding friends,
for a week or so, now myspace blocked my account,
I can log into my account, but out there no one sees my account, I get messages into my inbox saying thanks for the comments ( left some coment using software) but you account shows deleted,
when I checked that was true,
I have a message on top of my ingox says your account has been blocked due to suspition activity.
is this account gone?
thanks
February 20th, 2007 at 9:08 pm
For manually bypass, go to your myspace account->brow->choose “New to myspace”->update->choose any user and add. After you manully add this user, go to the iuptaddfriendv4.pl dos screen and press enter key.
After this, the script will continue to add lots of friends and by pass some captcha until you need to do manual bypass again.
The reason to choose “New to myspace” users is that their profile are simple and quick to load.
http://www.iupt.com
February 27th, 2007 at 9:58 pm
hi ummm im really stupid with computers and i really like this but i dont even know how to start the script man im so lost someone help me please tristanzotaj@hotmail.com if you can help ty plz someone help me.
March 4th, 2007 at 6:34 am
Does anyone know how to get past the MySpace 500 limit. Is there a script for this, or impossible??
March 22nd, 2007 at 7:57 pm
ok…i got the perl thing and i really didnt understand the directions…do i copy that code into the perl thing…or do i copy it into notpad and make it a perl file?
March 22nd, 2007 at 10:20 pm
ok…sorry for my stupidity in running a perl program, but i have no idea how to run the code. please email me: skatrpunk@gmail.com
March 24th, 2007 at 7:30 pm
I get this with the new $agent
No clickable input with name ctl00$Main$SplashDisplay$login$loginbutton at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/WWW/Mechanize.pm line 1435
The previous error is with the old $agent
March 24th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
I fixed the previous errors by changing $agent to:
$ag$agent->click(’ctl00$Main$SplashDisplay$loginold$loginbutton’);
Now I am getting: Can’t locate object method “form” via package “WWW::Mechanize” at GlitchCastFriendAdder.pl line 183, line 1.
Oh joy
April 1st, 2007 at 3:29 pm
Hi,
I have been trying to use the Glitch version 1.3 of this script and have added two of the fixes for the “No clickable input” error, so the lines of ‘click’ code are as follows (some characters may be removed by the reply engine:
$agent->click(’ctl00$Main$SplashDisplay$login$loginbutton’);
$agent->follow_link(url_regex => qr/login2.myspace.com/);
With these lines, I still get the following error:
No clickable input with name ctl00$Main$SplashDisplay$login$loginbutton at C:/Pe
rl/site/lib/WWW/Mechanize.pm line 707
Does anyone have any ideas what I can do to resolve this problem?
Thanks in advance.
Richard.
April 5th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
If you get this error:
No clickable input with name ctl00$Main$SplashDisplay$login$loginbutton at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/WWW/Mechanize.pm
I think it’s because MySpace have changed their end, change the line:
$agent->click(’ctl00$Main$SplashDisplay$login$loginbutton’);
to
$agent->click(’ctl00$Main$SplashDisplay$ctl01$loginbutton’);
April 6th, 2007 at 4:13 pm
Hi jayfish,
Thanks very much for your suggestion, that fixed my problem!
How did you find out that myspace changed their page, so that it should be ‘ctl00$Main$SplashDisplay$ctl01$loginbutton’?
The reason being is that if they change it again, I’d like to be able to find out what they change it to.
Thanks,
Richard.
April 7th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
O.k., this is for Eric. (There are so many discussions going on here I just wanted to make sure mine gets answered.) After having several name added successfully, I am getting the “There is no form named “addFriend” at GlitchCastFriendAdder.pl line 183 Adding friend at 123456…Not added (Possibly friend already added, especially if addFriend form not found above)” Error. I still haven’t seen an answer for it here.
Any suggestions?
April 7th, 2007 at 7:33 pm
BTW, aside from ~49 names, the rest had the above error message, out of 391. My “friends pending is showing 39″. How do I know which ones were actually sent?
April 8th, 2007 at 12:23 am
Can someone email me a working copy?
marcus.bowles@gmail.com
April 9th, 2007 at 1:54 am
Hey
I’ve attempted to do this myself yet i think i lack the knowledge of actually performing this task.
Can someone here use print screen to show the steps since im not so good at this.
If not, if you are willing to help me out with this i would very much appreciate if this code was done for me then just install it in.
April 9th, 2007 at 5:26 am
@Richard Thomas: Just check out the source of the home page when you’re logged out, that’s the name of the button to log in =)
@Lee Underwood: If you are sure that they actually aren’t already friends or pending friends, then the error could be being caused because they have their profiles set to private / are below whatever age MySpace makes profiles private for?
April 10th, 2007 at 10:13 am
I only have 109 friends and I was processing over 300 when I received the error message so it couldn’t be that. I always check to make sure that the links I am submitting are not already friends. Also, I have been able to add people whose profiles are set to private. So, any other answers?
April 12th, 2007 at 9:54 pm
Another confused Mac user. Can someone help me with dummy instructions? Do I need Linux, and, if I’m downloading it with a partition for this purpose, which version? Running 10.4.9 on a G4 PowerPc. Have Q download for virtual pc and it is supposed to work with Linux, but I don’t know enough to experiment safely. Kind souls, please help!
April 15th, 2007 at 9:24 am
@Lee Underwood: By private, I mean the ones that need an email or surname before they can be added… but if you are getting it toooo frequently, sorry, I don’t really know what else it might be =/
April 20th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
I have to say that this script, when it works, is great but I tried running it again today. I used the same file of friends as before. This time it added 55 more (out of 382). But I’m getting many error messages that say:
There is no form named “addFriend” at GlitchCastFriendAdder.pl line 186
When I checked the file, line 186 says,
$agent->form(”addFriend”);
Then I get errors with weird friends:
Adding friend B4A8884D-1783-4FF7-86357E8F5F11AFB926826265
That’s not a friend ID.
Any ideas what’s happening or this is a hit and miss thing?
April 24th, 2007 at 7:46 am
Hi,
This sounds great, but I’m not a programmer & Pearl is completely over my head (I’m running on Windows XP).
What I’m really looking for is a bot that also includes auto commenting, auto accepting, auto emailing, etc. I other words all the things that the commericial bots claim to deliver. However, many of them seem to be scams.
Glitch, you said “If you’re running on windows, there are applications available for cheap that will do the job better and with more support.” If you or anyone else can point me in the direction of these I would be really grateful as I don’t mind paying something, provided I know what I am getting is the genuine article and that it comes with support.
Many thanks,
Paul
May 6th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
I keep getting this error when running the script.
Can’t locate object method “form” via package “WWW::Mechanize” at GlitchCastFriendAdder.pl line 184, line 1.
I’m running Fedora Core 6 with up to date perl and required perl modules.
July 9th, 2007 at 2:13 am
hi there,
is there any way to get this script to work in command line only linux? I have it on Ubuntu Server (Fiesty)
July 16th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
Hi, when i click the download it just takes me to a txt file. Is this right or am i in a hightened newbie state?
Thanks
July 17th, 2007 at 8:54 am
No clickable input with name ctl00$Main$SplashDisplay$login$loginbutton at C:/Pe
rl/site/lib/WWW/Mechanize.pm line 1521
I keep getting this?
This is all making me pull my 16 year old hair out and thats NOT good =]
Any help?
April 20th, 2008 at 9:39 am
Hi Eric,
I’m attempting to run the script on a windows machine. I’ve never run a perl script before! I got past the commenting/uncommenting part- pretty simple once you know what it means. When I run the script your website opens up just fine in one tab but I’m getting an error message in the other tab that opens- it says: Firefox can’t find the server at http://www.&.com. Any help would be appreciated.
Paul
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