Facebook and Groupon e-mail check

Skills Needed

perl

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linux

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python

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curl

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bash

Description

This project is to develop a shell script that will check if an e-mail

is already registered in Facebook and Groupon. For facebook there are at

least 3 ways to do it (but I am open to any other)

1) submit the e-mail in the registration form and check if that address

already belongs to a current user or not.

2) Use the search box of FB (after login) once you type the address

there facebook returns the name of the user if exist or a not found

mesasage. There is a limit of 250 checks per account per day so the

system needs to manage different users to avoid blocks

3) Use the "Find Friend" feature of Facebook let you upload a csv or txt

with addreses and will retun you a list of the active e-mails to send

them a request. the limit is 5000 per day per account.

Probably 1st option is the easiest but for sure Facebook will block the

IP at some point (so require to manage multi IPs and/or proxies) and

also is a slow process in order to process many requests so require to

do it in a multi thread design Options 2 and 3 require to manage to

login into facebook and to intercept FB answers to process the result,

due the complex ajax design in FB this will not be very easy but is a

nice option because the performance will be much faster, require to

manage thousands of Facebook User Ids to complete the process.

For Groupon the only solution I saw is to submit the address as a new

user and if exist you receive a message insted of the regular register

form, Same as Facebook is a slow process and we need to manage multi

threads and also probably multi IPs or Proxies in order to avoid IP

blocks by the Groupon system

I want a shell script, the programmer will probably require to manage

cURL, Phyton, Perl and Bash. The system should process a single email

for example

"$ ./[login to view URL] "

or a file containing a list of mails one per line for example:

e_mails_lists.txt....

mail1(at)hotmail_com

mail2(at)hotmail_com

mail3(at)hotmail_com

mail4(at)hotmail_com

mail5(at)hotmail_com

EOF

and just as an example needs to execute like this:

"$ ./[login to view URL] -l [login to view URL] > [login to view URL]"

Any question just contact me.

JavaScript Perl Python Shell Script

Project ID: #4104904

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