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OK i'm trying to make something that will suggest friends on facebook. I have everything set up until i get to a window that looks like this:

 

Now this is the suggest page. How can i select the different people in the list using the web options. Since Everything will be done in a minimized internet explorer browser. Help please anyone

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here is an image 

http://www.freeimagehosting.net/zvr19

 

This is what i have so far. This selects the first few friends. But you see the css is not the same. each friend has a unique element code. Two numbers increase as we start selecting friends left to right then down 1 row left to right again. It is fairly straight forward, but i'm not getting it to work. I'm trying to set up a loop. I'm setting a variable adding it to a list and replacing text. It's a little complicated for me and i just not getting it to work. Any help and or sample code would be lovely. Much appreciate any help from anyone. thank you.

 

So far here is what I got. it sets the css code for the first friend as a variable. Then it loops. and the top of the loop it is supposed to add +1 to the css code in two places. so as it loops the elements are being changed by replace text so it will select the next friend.

 

Thanks all

Getting closer! OK well maybe not so close. But I figured out that I cannot use a wildcard to repace text. So how do i replace text then? I set it so there is a temporary file that I can read from. But there are two numbers inside the css element that I need to change. I want it to follow the loop count. So if the loop is on loop 500 I want it to be set for 500. For example my css element is:

 

(0)css(1)html(5)css(1)vb(4)wa(0)blah(1)www(0)css(1)(5) I want to change the 5's according to what loop is in the index. so if it is on index 6 then the css element should be like this:

(0)css(1)html(6)css(1)vb(4)wa(0)blah(1)www(0)css(1)(6)

 

There is a lot more css code in there but that is just basically what im after. I need it to change every time it loops since it will be selecting different css elements that are aligned.

 

Well getting sorta closer. Hope Samantha can come save me again.

*UPDATE* Sorry for so many updates. I figured out the looping system now. The problem I'm having now is sometimes facebook doesn't load the buttons exactly the same way each time. I guess its using javascript when you click on buttons. Is there anyways to load that and make the button open. I guess you would call this "java script drop down lists" ? Not sure. I cant seem to get it to "click on web page" everytime because the css element may differ onces in a while. Here is a pic:

http://www.freeimagehosting.net/42eqx

 

After clicking that gear it drops down and i select another button that says "suggest friends"

 

This is what i get when inspecing with firebug

 

<div class="wrap">
<a class="fbTimelineActionSelectorButton uiSelectorButton uiButton uiButtonOverlay uiButtonLarge uiButtonNoText" href="#" role="button" aria-label="Other actions" aria-haspopup="1" rel="toggle" wotsearchprocessed="true">
<i class="mrs img sp_4i4ayo sx_de1d6a"/>
<span class="uiButtonText"/>
</a> this is what i get when i inspect with firebug i get something totally different when i use the automated way of getting the "css element"  

Hey Chink, 

 

Check the script attached this should do the trick. You will also need a text file that will hold the full name of each friend you want to suggest to the friend you have.

 

Samantha

Hmm. That is a very effecient way of doing it! Is there an easy way you would think that I can collect all the names of the friends i have on 1 account. Otherwise it would be 4,000 friends i would need to manually input. By the way here is what i have (VERY chopped up nasty code i have attached sorry) 

 

Downloading the new version also

 

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Beautiful code Samantha! 20lines and it looks gr8! Thank you so much! I would really like to figure out a way of getting the list of friends. "Trying it now"

 

Thank you!

You would need to use the extract data from web, and extract all friends you have in list.

 

Samantha