[python-win32] Problem with Python win32com while loading facebook homepage

[Mike Driscoll]

Adrien,
> Hi dear members of the python-win32 python mailing list,
>
> I'm trying to connect to my facebook account.. I'd like to automate 
> some tasks like closing applications requests, and why not automate 
> task for application games of facebook, if I arrive to do this.
>
> But I can't arrive to connect to homepage..
> First, without win32com, the code page return by the script was a 
> javascript script :
>
>     <script type="text/javascript">
>     (function(loc) { if (loc.pathname == '/') { return; } var uri_re =
>     /^(?:(?:[^:\/?#]+):)?(?:\/\/(?:[^\/?#]*))?([^?#]*)(?:\?([^#]*))?(?:#(.*))?/;
>     var target_domain = ''; loc.href.replace(uri_re, function(all,
>     path, query, frag) { var dst, src; dst = src = path + (query ? '?'
>     + query : ''); if (frag) { if (frag.charAt(0) == '/') { dst =
>     frag.replace(/^\/+/, '/') .replace(/_fb_qsub=([^&]+)&?/,
>     function(all, domain){ if (domain.substring(domain.length - 13) ==
>     '.facebook.com <http://facebook.com>') { target_domain =
>     'http://'+domain; } return ''; }); } else if (/&|=/.test(frag)) {
>     var q = {}; var m = frag.match(/([^#]*)(#.*)?/); var arr =
>     (query||'').split('&').concat((m[1]||'').split('&')); for (var
>     i=0, length=arr.length; i<length; i++) { var t =
>     arr[i].split('='); if (t.length && t[0] != '') { q[t[0]] = t[1]; }
>     } var s = []; for (var i in q) { s.push(i+ (q[i]?'='+q[i]:'')); }
>     dst = path+'?'+s.join('&')+(m[2]||''); } } dst = "" + dst; if (dst
>     != src) { window.location.replace(target_domain + dst); } });
>     })(window.location);
>     </script>
>     <script>window.location.replace("http:\/\/www.facebook.com
>     <http://www.facebook.com>\/common\/browser.php");</script>
>
>
>
> After reading a little on the web ( I searched a solution to execute 
> javascript code from python), I've found the next added lines, which 
> use win32com. I have installed pywin32-214 (I use python 2.6.2).
>
> See below my code :
>
>     # -*- coding:Utf-8 -*-
>     #!/usr/bin/python
>     import httplib
>     import urllib
>
>     Connexion = httplib.HTTP('www.facebook.com <http://www.facebook.com>')
>     Connexion.putrequest('GET', '/home.php')
>     Connexion.putheader('Host', 'www.facebook.com
>     <http://www.facebook.com>')
>     Connexion.putheader('Accept', 'text/html')
>     Connexion.putheader('Cookie', 'the_long_cookie_from_facebook')
>     Connexion.endheaders()
>     ErrCode, ErrMsg, Headers = Connexion.getreply()
>     Handle = Connexion.getfile()
>     Buffer = Handle.read()
>
>     from win32com.client.gencache import EnsureDispatch
>     ie = EnsureDispatch('InternetExplorer.Application')
>     ie.Navigate('http://www.facebook.com')
>     print ie.Document.documentElement.innerHTML
>
>  
> When I execute the script, I have this error :
>
>     >>>
>     Traceback (most recent call last):
>       File "C:\Documents and
>     Settings\adlemair\Bureau\exos\connectFacebook.py", line 18, in
>     <module>
>         from win32com.client.gencache import EnsureDispatch
>       File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\win32com\__init__.py", line
>     5, in <module>
>         import win32api, sys, os
>     ImportError: DLL load failed: Le module spécifié est introuvable.
>
>
> Do you know why ? Do you arrive to execute this script on your side ?
>
>
> Thank you so much for your advise
>
> Best regards,
>
Why not just use the pyFacebook module? It wraps Facebook's API and 
would probably be more reliable for communicating with their services. 
Here's a link: http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Python

- Mike