Auto Poke Back (Facebook web scraper)

A simple web scraper made using PuppeteerJS and NodeJS that automates pressing the "Poke Back" button whenever a facebook friend/user pokes you.

Setup

First, run:

npm install

Then, run:

npx @puppeteer/browsers install chrome-headless-shell@latest

After that, open and edit the .env file and replace the keys with their respective values, however, the USER_AGENT key's value is optional and may be left as-is.

# Your facebook email address
FB_EMAIL=youremail@gmail.com

# Your facebook password
FB_PASS=yourpassword123

# Browser user agent (optional)
USER_AGENT='Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/123.0.2420.81'

Once all are done, you may then run:

node index.js

NOTE: If you encounter a checkpoint, just open your facebook account in your another device and check your notification for a login approval request. Click it and just approve your login then wait for a few seconds and this tool will detect the approval. However, facebook's login checkpoint may also mean that your account has been marked as spam or temporarily disabled by facebook.

Preview

Possible Improvements

• Login cookie (to avoid relogging in and going through the login checkpoint everytime)
• Incorrect email/password detection
• 2-Step Verification detection
• Manual logging in when .env file is not present
• Better error handling (like timeouts, unhandled exceptions, etc.)

Disclaimer

I will not be responsible for any damages/consequences that this may cause to your and/or other's account(s). Please use at your own risk.