Changing Facebook status with Bash, cURL - UPDATE!

Here's a little upgrade to the Facebook script.

Changes from the old version

1. Added some error checking should now detect failed/successful logins, and update attempt.
2. writes cookies to /tmp/ instead of $HOME

Not much of a changelog I know, but I suppose this makes for pretty much all the updating that this script would require. Don't forget to check out how to run this on the iPhone, although it does seem quite unnecessary since the Facebook app is pretty good.

#!/bin/bash


email=YOUR-EMAIL
pass=YOUR-PASSWORD

stat=$1
cookie="/tmp/"$RANDOM"fupdate"$RANDOM"cookiefile"

if [ -z "${stat}" ]
then
 echo -e "\n\E[01musage\E[0m: \n  fupdate 'your new status message'\n"
 echo -e "The status should not be empty\n"
 exit 1
fi

echo -n "Trying to log in..."
pfID=`curl -L --silent -A "MOZILLA/5.0" -b ${cookie} -c ${cookie} -d "email=${email}" \
 -d "pass=${pass}" -d "login=Log+In" http://m.facebook.com/login.php | \
 sed -nr 's/.*post_form_id" value="(\w+)".*/\1/p'`


if [ -z ${pfID} ];then echo "FAILED (no pfID)";exit 1;else echo "SUCCESS!";fi
 

echo -n "Trying to update..."
return=`curl --silent -L -A "MOZILLA/5.0" -b ${cookie} -c ${cookie} \
 -d "post_form_id=${pfID}" -d "status=${stat}" \
 -d "update=Update" http://m.facebook.com/home.php | \
 sed -nr 's/.*(Your status has been updated).*/\1/p'`
 

if [ -z "${return}" ];then echo "FAILED";exit 1;else echo "SUCCESS!";fi

if [ -e ${cookie} ]
then
 rm ${cookie}
else
 echo "no cookie file? something went wrong?"
 exit 1
fi