In this small tutorial we are going to create a new app for the hacksuite. We're not going to do anything fancy here, we will make a simple app to get familiar how to write compatible scripts for the suite.

We are going to create a tool that allows you to get the profile page of a facebook image name. Facebook images look something like:

http://sphotos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/396991_258579564204685_1706121139_n.jpg

The bold part is the profile id we want, there's a 1001 ways to isolate it but I'll do it the lazy way:

This will produce the facebook profile url of where the image originally comes from.

Of course this is not very useful unless the user can input any url through a form:


To get started with creating your application click on development and then create new app.



This will bring you to a page where you can setup your properties for the hacksuite application.



name of app: give the app unique names like 'AppName', you can't use names that have this pattern (thc_xx)
location: relative location from the hacksuite root folder, eg MyAppFolder/Start, you can't use locations that have this pattern (thc_xx)
version: typically applications in the hacksuite start at 0.0.1, you can however use any version
author: your name, nickname

When you submit the form, a new form will appear:



Replace the line echo world with the code above(of course without the php open and close tag), submit the form and you created your first - not so fancy - hacksuite application. You would still need to put some styling and other html but this is just a POC.