http requests to auto vote on a polldaddy poll

polldaddy.rb

require 'open-uri'
pollNumber = '5876349'
ourPick = '26523547'
uriString = 'http://polldaddy.com/n/64270c358614e8ef9383968590e82f73/'.concat(pollNumber).concat('?').concat(Time.now.to_i.to_s())
puts uriString

# Headers
HEADERS = {
  'Host'            => 'polldaddy.com',
  'User-Agent'      => 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_2) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.75 Safari/535.7',
  'Referer'         => 'http://speakimge.wordpress.com/'
#  'Accept'          => '*/*',
#  'Accept-Language' => 'en-US,en;q=0.8',
#  'Accept-Encoding' => 'gzip,deflate,sdch',
#  'Accept-Charset'  => 'ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3',
#  'Keep-Alive'      => '300',
#  'Connection'      => 'keep-alive',
#  'Cache-Control'   => 'max-age=0'
}

puts '------1st Request For The Magic CoOkie!--------'
res = open(uriString, HEADERS).read
puts res.split(';')[0]
cookie = res.split(';')[0][14,32]
puts cookie

puts '------2nd Request to Cast Our Vote!--------'
uriString = 'http://polls.polldaddy.com/vote-js.php?p='.concat(pollNumber).concat('&b=0&a=').concat(ourPick).concat(',&o=&va=0&cookie=0&url=http%3A//speakimge.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/under-the-covers/&n=').concat(cookie)
puts uriString

HEADERS['Host'] = 'polls.polldaddy.com'
HEADERS['Referer'] = 'http://speakimge.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/under-the-covers/'

res = open(uriString, HEADERS).read
puts res

I constructed URLs that worked when I entered them manually in a browser but not when I tried them in a script - it would just return some headers. I downloaded this and plugged in the numbers and I get the same result. Does this script still work for you?

I never nailed this script 100%. I ended up using an automation testing tool(watir-webdriver) to get the same result successfully multiple times. Check out gist https://gist.github.com/1699540
In that example the poll was located at the url speakimge.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/under-the-covers/
I used chrome to figure out the correct radio button and the events to vote and redirect back to initial screen in the loop. I imagine you'll see something similar.

Polldaddy will limit the # of votes you can cast in a time period. I used tor to get around this and set the proxy configuration on line 7. I was able to cast unlimited # of votes after that.

Nice work. I'm not sure how much effort I'll put into this one, since it's just to vote for my favorite burger joint :-) Thanks for the response. ## Brian Ramsay Sent with Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig)

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On Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Chris Blazek wrote: I never nailed this script 100%. I ended up using an automation testing tool(watir-webdriver) to get the same result successfully multiple times. Check out gist https://gist.github.com/1699540 In that example the poll was located at the url speakimge.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/under-the-covers/ (http://speakimge.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/under-the-covers/) I used chrome to figure out the correct radio button and the events to vote and redirect back to initial screen in the loop. I imagine you'll see something similar. Polldaddy will limit the # of votes you can cast in a time period. I used tor to get around this and set the proxy configuration on line 7. I was able to cast unlimited # of votes after that. --- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://gist.github.com/1690064

As of May 31, 2024, here's a working python version and Windows executable at https://github.com/wrestleraaron/polldaddy_automation. You still need to understand the basics of the poll, but it can be placed in a yaml file for easy changes to vote on different polls. Thanks @kingbin for the guidance, especially on the cookies portion