Convert your Facebook friend contacts to CSV

Convert your Facebook friend contacts to CSV(vytautas.jakutis.name)

28 points by tahu 14 years ago | 17 comments

unicornporn 14 years ago |

Weird, I've decided to leave FB and was working on doing this an hour ago. I ended up using: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ficlccidpkaiepnnbo...

You can also use this method: http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/12/how-to-mass-export-all-of-y...

but for me it only exported contacts that had their email address visible. "Facebook Friend Exporter" worked better.

ovi256 14 years ago | |

Hey, the language that gets the job done is the proper one.

bhousel 14 years ago |

wtf.. Why screen scrape Facebook from a bookmarklet, when the Graph API gives you all this and more in JSON.

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/

cdcarter 14 years ago | |

Graph API does not expose phone numbers

unicornporn 14 years ago | | |

I think this is where fbcmd [ http://fbcmd.dtompkins.com/ ] enters. It can do some fancy things scraping has trouble doing. I extracted tel numbers and other info from friends in tidy CSV, downloaded all the photos I was in and more.

bjonathan 14 years ago | |

you cant have all that informations via the Graph API I think. For example the birthday dates of my friends, I cant have them via the API

inji 14 years ago | | |

Yeah, you can. You can get alot out of the Graph API.

  https://graph.facebook.com/me/friends?fields=birthday&access_token=[...]

enki 14 years ago | | |

what's really missing is the phone numbers.

GeoDeV 14 years ago |

I just had to do the very same thing, except instead of Facebook, it was a contact list in a proprietary medical office database. Since my programming skills are limited to Basic and Pascal, I just used AutoHotKey and the AutoHotKey Recorder. After a little editing, i.e. adding a test for empty boxes and putting the whole script in a loop, it was working fine. I considered teaching myself Ruby, but I knew it would be much faster to use AutoHotKey. But it's really interesting to see the same process in a proper computer language

ComputerGuru 14 years ago |

Just be careful, Facebook monitors for scraping activity and has deleted accounts over this in the past.

Would be great if it offered a variable sleep option, to make it a bit less of a dead giveaway.

zalew 14 years ago | |

I used http://www.cleanmywall.net/ which was scrapping for over 12h, also used https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ficlccidpkaiepnnbo... to export my friends and luckily I wasn't banned. I wonder what are the criteria to get banned for scrapping.

tahu 14 years ago | |

The code is updated - now randomizing the order and time in which contacts are polled.

ivansavz 14 years ago |

Everyone quick! Get it, before the cease and desist letter comes. ( backup: http://piratepad.net/VKHtw0Txli )

frgtn 14 years ago | |

The letter might hit some complications since the site is outside of US.

alttab 14 years ago |

After browsing the source I thought there has to be a better way

kennethologist 14 years ago |

Cool stuff. Got a lot of insight from the code.