RTP-area local music and culture

[James Hepler <hepstyle AT gmail.com>]

I've always just used this guy:

javascript:elms=document.getElementById('friends').getElementsByTagName('li');for(var
fid in elms){if(typeof elms[fid] === 'object'){fs.click(elms[fid]);}}

put that in your address bar for the event and voila.  Problem is I have a
lot of friends who don't live round here and they A) don't like being
invited to out of town events, and B) get on my case for the form-letter
manner in which I invited them.  Now I wish I could make a list of friends
that I usually invite to events and have a script that allows me to just
select THEM.  Does your stuff work for that because I will pay you!

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Steve Salevan <steve.salevan AT gmail.com>wrote:

> Hey guys,
> It's been a while since I've posted on a.m.c-h (as I recall, my last
> message was rather lengthy too...), but I'm back on to announce that
> my new band, Pundits, is playing its first show in Chapel Hill this
> weekend!  We're a Talking Heads cover group, focusing on material from
> '77 through Speaking in Tongues, and we're ready to bring a rather
> blistering set of afro-futurism, rants about buildings, and frantic
> dance rave-ups to Jack Sprat on the 22nd, starting at 9PM.
>
> Our opening act will be a group out of Richmond called The Itchy
> Hearts, who, to my ears, sound a lot like The Avett Brothers.  This is
> most certainly a good thing, and, from what I told, they completely
> dominate when they're allowed out in front of an audience.  I think
> that we're going to have a pretty solid show on our hands...
>
> If you'd like to hear more of us, here's our Myspace:
>
> http://myspace.com/punditstheband
>
> and here's the Myspace of our opener:
>
> http://myspace.com/theitchyhearts
>
> So, in the midst of setting up the Facebook event for our show, I
> found that clicking through the 600-odd friends I had on my list was a
> terrifically arduous process.  It is my solemn credo as an engineer
> that every arduous manual process can be automated, given an
> appropriate level of tenacity and true grit, so, instead of clicking
> through the remainder of the list, I wrote a Selenium script to do it
> for me.  I want to share it with you guys, because it'll totally make
> your lives easier too.
>
> Without further ado, I present to you...  DJ Stevo's Epic Facebook
> Friend Clicker Script:
>
> http://thekobayashimaru.org/friend_clicker.zip
>
> Contained within this zip are two files, friend_clicker.xml and
> goto_sel_ide.js, two highly important scripts which we'll use in
> tandem with a Firefox plugin called Selenium IDE to automate this
> process.  Unzip it to somewhere that you'll be able to keep them for a
> while and follow these steps to make the magic happen:
>
> Installing the Selenium IDE plugin and installing the goto_sel_ide.js
> Selenium extension:
>
> 1.  Visit the following URL via Firefox:
>
> http://seleniumhq.org/download/
>
> and click the 'Download' link next to 'Selenium IDE'.  You'll likely
> be presented with a 'Firefox prevented this site (seleniumhq.org) from
> asking you to install software on your computer.' warning...  if you
> do, click 'Allow'.  You'll see a dialog window appear, asking if you
> want to install this newfangled Firefox plugin.  You do, so click
> 'Install Now'.
>
> 2.  Restart Firefox, open the Tools menu, and select 'Selenium IDE'
> from the list.
>
> 3.  Within the newly-opened Selenium IDE window, open the Options
> menu, and select 'Options...'
>
> 4.  Under the field 'Selenium Core extensions (user-extensions.js)',
> click the Browse button, and navigate to the 'goto_sel_ide.js' file,
> selecting it.  After selecting the file, click the OK button in the
> 'Selenium IDE Options' window, which will close it.  Due to a Selenium
> bug, you might have to resize this window to see this OK button, but,
> scout's honor, it's so there.
>
> Running the script:
>
> 1.  Goto Facebook, open the Events tab, and click 'Create an event'.
>
> 2.  Fill in some of the event details then click the 'Select Guests'
> button.
>
> 3.  Open Selenium IDE (if it isn't already open) and, within the
> Selenium IDE window, open its File menu and select 'Open.'  Navigate
> to where you unzipped the friend_clicker.xml file and select it, which
> will load it into Selenium IDE.
>
> 4.  Start the script by clicking the play button next to the Fast-
> >Slow slider...  it looks like a green triangle with three green
> horizontal bars sitting beside it.
>
> 5.  Pound a beer, go out to lunch, or just chillax...  within a few
> minutes, your friends will be selected.  When it's done, click 'Save
> and close', and you're done!
>
> I hope that this helps you out, and if you run into any snags or bugs,
> drop me a line and I'll be glad to address them.  Otherwise, happy
> inviting, and come out to our show!  :-)
> -Steve Salevan
> steve.salevan AT gmail.com
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