auraita
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- Dec 30, 2013
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Hi good people of BHW!
I want to share a trick(or tip) that has helped me to scrape uids more fast from graph search. If you have a slow computer or slow internet connection...or if you have to use a program which has to use high memory when you re scraping,i think it will help you.
Actually the trick is very simple. We need only uids,no ? so that means we don't have to download profile pictures.Well, let me explain it better.
When you access to a web page,your browser downloads all data which is defined in source code. So it downloads images,java scripts, etc...
But all these data occupies memory in RAM and when you scrapes uids from fb by using an addon, as expected, your browser downloads also profile pictures too and each picture occupies more memory than page's itself (well,actually it depends on size of pic.,bit... )
After a while(for example;after listed 1000 pictures),if your computer is slow,it will start freezing and become slow or if your internet connection is slow, then it will take a long time to download each profile picture. (but it doesn't even need to download- the request to server is enough for slow connections.)
Ok after all these explanations; the trick is to block pictures.! In preparing these howto,i was using firefox, but it works for all browsers.
What you need :
*An adblock addon for your browser
How :
1- Make sure that adblock is active.
2- Do your search on Fb
3- Right click on a profile picture & select "Adblock plus : block image " (**firefox**)
4- Select root domain (with subdomain) as shown in the picture below & add filter
That's all. Press F5 (or refresh the page) and you will see the search page without profile pictures.
Now it will load the page more fast than ever. your computer's resources will be used less
auraita
PS : When you're done, delete this filter from your adblock options!
PS 2 : i'm not native english speaker as you see. it's my third language!
I want to share a trick(or tip) that has helped me to scrape uids more fast from graph search. If you have a slow computer or slow internet connection...or if you have to use a program which has to use high memory when you re scraping,i think it will help you.
Actually the trick is very simple. We need only uids,no ? so that means we don't have to download profile pictures.Well, let me explain it better.
When you access to a web page,your browser downloads all data which is defined in source code. So it downloads images,java scripts, etc...
But all these data occupies memory in RAM and when you scrapes uids from fb by using an addon, as expected, your browser downloads also profile pictures too and each picture occupies more memory than page's itself (well,actually it depends on size of pic.,bit... )
After a while(for example;after listed 1000 pictures),if your computer is slow,it will start freezing and become slow or if your internet connection is slow, then it will take a long time to download each profile picture. (but it doesn't even need to download- the request to server is enough for slow connections.)
Ok after all these explanations; the trick is to block pictures.! In preparing these howto,i was using firefox, but it works for all browsers.
What you need :
*An adblock addon for your browser
How :
1- Make sure that adblock is active.
2- Do your search on Fb
3- Right click on a profile picture & select "Adblock plus : block image " (**firefox**)
4- Select root domain (with subdomain) as shown in the picture below & add filter
auraita
PS : When you're done, delete this filter from your adblock options!
PS 2 : i'm not native english speaker as you see. it's my third language!
