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By Abhishek Ghosh December 20, 2012 2:16 am Updated on December 20, 2012

Using Facebook From Command Line Interface

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Using Facebook From Command Line Interface adds the advantage to minimalistic text only mode with faster loading mode. You can test it on your computer too. We will show this guide for Using Facebook From Command Line Interface with OS X 10.8, it will definitely work for Linux and with GNU packages on Windows PC.

 

Using Facebook From Command Line Interface : Initial Setup For Command Line

 

For Windows PC, you will need to install the proper packages for emulation for using Facebook From Command Line Interface. If you follow this guide (and the links inside) Colored Text with Syntax Highlighting Translucent Console for Windows, you will be able to use Windows PC in UNIX Like way. For Apple Mac with OS X 10.8, you will need to fix the ‘normal’ terminal setup, we are using iTerm2 on OS X 10.8 like we wrote in this guide.

For Linux there is no need to do anything except if you want to customize the look. Basically we will need CLI version of php5 and curl running.

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Using Facebook From Command Line Interface : Steps

 

If you do not have PHP5 and curl installed, install it. With which command actually you can check the situation :

 

Using Facebook From Command Line Interface

 

Basically the repository needed for  using Facebook From Command Line Interface is here :

 

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https://github.com/dtompkins/fbcmd

 

You can check the version of PHP by this command :

 

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php -r "echo phpversion();"

 

If you follow our previous guides, iTerm2 will give no pain :
Facebook From Command Line Interface
wget it or curl the needed php file :

 

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wget  https://raw.github.com/dtompkins/fbcmd/master/fbcmd_update.php

 

or curl if you do not have wget installed (for Mac users, curl will always be there, you can add wget if you want) :

 

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curl -O https://raw.github.com/dtompkins/fbcmd/master/fbcmd_update.php

 

Facebook From CLI

 

Run this command now :

 

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php fbcmd_update.php

 

You will get a beautiful (in terms of CLI !) screen and execute it :

 

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php fbcmd_update.php install

 

Facebook CLI Guide

 

Using Facebook From Command Line Interface : Initial Tests and Authorization

 

These are initial tests to check :

 

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fbcmd

Mac OS X will try to add a dot. Do not allow. Type n and hit Enter.
Go to this webpage while signed in on Facebook :

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https://apps.facebook.com/cmdline/

Go to this page to generate the Authorization code :

 

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http://www.facebook.com/code_gen.php?v=1.0&api_key=42463270450

 

Change Your_Code to real and run :

 

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fbcmd auth Your_Code

 

Last step is :

 

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fbcmd addperm

 

You can now start using Facebook From Command Line Interface. All commands are here :

 

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fbcmd HELP

 

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About Abhishek Ghosh

Abhishek Ghosh is a Businessman, Orthopaedic Surgeon, Author and Blogger. You can keep touch with him on Twitter - @AbhishekCTRL.

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Cite this article as: Abhishek Ghosh, "Using Facebook From Command Line Interface," in The Customize Windows, December 20, 2012, March 5, 2021, https://thecustomizewindows.com/2012/12/using-facebook-from-command-line-interface/.

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