Sweet! Facebook in Emacs!

Posted on August 12th, 2008 by Sacha Chua

So here’s how to access Facebook from w3m, one of the web browsers in
Emacs:

1. Enable cookies by setting w3m-use-cookies to t.
2. Go to http://m.facebook.com .
3. Choose the HTTP login.
4. Log in with your username and password.

Hooray for mobile interfaces that don’t require Javascript! =D

So far, it seems to work. I can update my status! Sweet!

Next step: Figure out how to set up shimbun for Facebook mail so that I can read my Facebook mail like a newsgroup…

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6 Responses to “Sweet! Facebook in Emacs!”

Paul Huff // Aug 15, 2008 at 1:32 am

Of course, you could set your status without w3m if you add the developer app and get an app key and use facebook.el ;)

-Paul
Fabio Viola // Aug 19, 2008 at 8:24 am

wow facebook in emacs!!! And what about this emacs girl??? Really really really really really really cool!!! :)
Kamen // Nov 2, 2008 at 10:05 am

This actually prompted me to experiment with the mobile versions of other online services, with quite a bit of success with Gmail, Google Reader, and Google Docs.

I’ve documented it all at the Emacs Wiki, here:

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en/WThreeMHintsAndTips#toc15

Retake Web 2.0 with the power of Emacs!
EnigmaCurry // Dec 4, 2008 at 8:53 am

I update my facebook status in emacs via twitter with twit.el and adding the twitter facebook app to my facebook.

Works fantastically.
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[...] kind of facebook in emacs (thus fiemacs.el) that goes beyond just opening the mobile version of facebook in emacs-w3m. Such a project would be quite work-intensive, the benefits are questionable and this photo [...]
Tikitu // Apr 18, 2010 at 6:40 am

So did you ever get mail access sorted? I would *dearly* love to lose the BookFace mail interface…

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