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Now, in order to find this secret URL we can use to access the API or access Facebook without having

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JavaScript enabled.

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We can take a look and use the inspector in the developer tools in Firefox.

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We click on the login here and if we go a bit up we can see this form tag here with the method of post

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and the URL inside of the action here.

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So if we go ahead and copy this action URL here.

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Copy that.

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And we go inside of Postman.

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And we paste the URL in here and then we change this to post.

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And then we need to add our email and our password for Facebook.

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So we go inside of the body in here in Postman.

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If you don't have Postman already, just Google Postman and download it.

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It's free to use and it's really cool for exploring APIs and things like this.

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So inside of the body section, go and click X vive form URL encoded.

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Basically it's formatting the data so that it's the same way as when you're using a web page and submitting

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data via via post.

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So then we type in our Facebook email.

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And we type in pass.

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That's going to be our Facebook password.

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And then we say send.

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And we get a bunch of text, which is basically a web page.

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And here we can see.

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Basically we are inside of the page now.

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So now we can see I'm basically going I'm going straight into Facebook.

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But here we can see some post in here.

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And well, that's basically like seeing your wall, your Facebook wall.

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Then you can go on and scrape as much data as you want.

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Of course, it will probably have some kind of throttling.

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And, um, well, in the next lecture, let's look at how we actually do this inside of requests inside

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NodeJS.