Add the helper script tests/fetch_facebook_page.sh
[tweeper.git] / tests / fetch_facebook_page.sh
diff --git a/tests/fetch_facebook_page.sh b/tests/fetch_facebook_page.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Facebook requires a CAPTCHA most of the times, so keep fetching the URL as
+# long as needed, until the page is shown with no CAPTCHA.
+
+set -e
+
+USER_AGENT="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:22.0) Gecko/20130405 Firefox/22.0";
+
+while true;
+do
+  # Force language to en-us to make sure that the string matching works
+  OUTPUT=$(wget -nv --user-agent="$USER_AGENT" --header='Accept-Language: en-us' -O - -- "$1")
+  if echo $OUTPUT | grep -q -v "Security Check Required";
+  then
+    echo "$OUTPUT" > facebook.html
+    break
+  fi
+  sleep 5
+done