fbpoke

This is a small automation tool that automatically pokes people back on Facebook, so you don't have to do it manually. If someone keeps poking you as a joke or to get your attention, this script will poke them back automatically whenever they poke you.

The way it works is straightforward: the script logs into your Facebook account using your email and password, then watches for incoming pokes and responds by sending pokes back. It uses a tool called PhantomJS, which is basically a headless browser—think of it as a web browser that runs without a visual window, so a computer can automate clicking and typing on websites the way a human would.

To use it, you run the script from your computer's command line and provide your Facebook email and password as arguments. Alternatively, if you're not comfortable passing your credentials as a command-line argument, you can edit the script file directly and hardcode your login information. Then PhantomJS launches, logs in as you, and sits there automatically responding to pokes.

This is a joke project from back when Facebook's "poke" feature was more commonly used (it's less popular now). It's the kind of thing someone might have written to get back at a friend who kept poking them repeatedly, or just to have fun with automation. The project is very minimal—just a few lines of code—and probably hasn't been maintained in years, since PhantomJS itself is no longer actively developed and Facebook's interface has changed significantly. If someone wanted to actually run this today, they'd likely run into compatibility issues.