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    <p>I'm interested in writing a python script to log into Facebook and then request some data (mainly checking the inbox). There are few nice examples out there on how to do this. One interesting script i found <a href="http://ruel.me/blog/2011/03/03/scrape-your-facebook-friends-emails-with-python/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">over here</a> and there is some nice example <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2030652/logging-into-facebook-with-python">on stackoverflow itself</a>. Now i could just copy-paste some of the code i need and get to do what i want, but that wouldn't be a good way to learn. So i am trying to understand what i am actually coding and can't understand some elements of the script in the first example, namely: what is a <strong>post_form_id</strong>?</p> <p>Here is the section of the code which refers to "post_form_id" (line 56-72):</p> <pre><code># Initialize the cookies and get the post_form_data print 'Initializing..' res = browser.open('http://m.facebook.com/index.php') mxt = re.search('name="post_form_id" value="(\w+)"', res.read()) pfi = mxt.group(1) print 'Using PFI: %s' % pfi res.close() # Initialize the POST data data = urllib.urlencode({ 'lsd' : '', 'post_form_id' : pfi, 'charset_test' : urllib.unquote_plus('%E2%82%AC%2C%C2%B4%2C%E2%82%AC%2C%C2%B4%2C%E6%B0%B4%2C%D0%94%2C%D0%84'), 'email' : user, 'pass' : passw, 'login' : 'Login' }) </code></pre> <p>Would you be so kind to tell me what a <strong>post_form_id</strong> is? And accessorily: would you know what the <strong>lsd</strong> key/value stands for?</p> <p>Thanks.</p>
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