Facebook wouldn't let me invite my friends... jQuery to the rescue!

Posted by fotoflo on Friday November 23, 2012 @05:11AM
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Re:Facebook wouldn't let me invite my friends... jQuery to t... by junto on Friday November 23, 2012 @06:54AM (#4821902)

A good example of why you should always fall back to validation on the server. Never trust the client.

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Re:Facebook wouldn't let me invite my friends... jQuery to t... by broodsugar on Friday November 23, 2012 @05:20AM (#4821707)

Sneaky, and enormously helpful.

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Re:Facebook wouldn't let me invite my friends... jQuery to t... by fotoflo on Friday November 23, 2012 @05:26AM (#4821724)

You can pretty much use this trick everywhere...

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Re:Facebook wouldn't let me invite my friends... jQuery to t... by laxlaxy on Friday November 23, 2012 @06:56AM (#4821911)

I doubt this works. All it does is change the client side DOM. When the form gets sent to the server they can still ignore those friends.

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Re:Facebook wouldn't let me invite my friends... jQuery to t... by fotoflo on Friday November 23, 2012 @07:34AM (#4821995)

Thank you. I went back and looked, and you're right, it seems that it didnt submit ALL friend requests, only about a hundrad apperently.

You can use this jQuery to click all friends who are clickable:

1) jQuery(".fbProfileBrowser .fcb.fwb.text").click()

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Re:Facebook wouldn't let me invite my friends... jQuery to t... by mattlovett on Friday November 23, 2012 @06:55AM (#4821907)

Good workaround!

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