[REQ]Program to extract Facebook (names , surnames) from Id's?

Crazy. said:

Yeah, I used this method for sorting pages by their fan count, but it's very limited. I don't recall the lookup limiit but I know I was required to pause for 5+ minutes before they would lift the limit and allow me to resume lookups. It doesn't provide location from what I've seen though, just basic public information.

Here's the page sorter for anyone that cares, just gotta load the URLs of the pages. It's pretty much beta software but it gets the job done.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/eywjrd

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Crazy I am trying it right now , but I have 17000 Urls , so it didn't finish yet , what this supposed to do ? Crazy try to think about creating this little lookup tool for small fee for everybody ( I think that this program should be very useful for many people , now you exactly know how to extract data , you don't even need to be logged in facebook account , now you know what to do to get database of facebook people to the table even with their pictures , if you have a little time you should create it not only for BHW community for small fee (let's say about 10$) and I think that many people should buy it , this program should be very useful , don't forget that there are about 300 milions of people using it , try to imagine that everybody should have database of their friends , fans in their desktop , where they can sort them by country , sex , names , surnames , they would sort them into groups , you know that facebook is very limited for that , I honestly hate facebook friends browsing, I really don't understand why somebody didn't create something like this till now.

@chris456

I have a web based script that I coded to do the extraction and everything but was looking into coding a VB application but finding it difficult to learn the code ATM, so I decided to make a web based script. I have also lately been thinking of making a script for everyone to use to submit peoples profiles to where you can add comments of interests of the account etc. and the account's pics, info, country etc. would be there. This will be like a catalogue of FB profiles say and anyone could use the library as a membership kind of thing like $5 per month lets say.. Well the main function of the library is for blackhatters to find their targeted members..

But what I was wanting to ask you is, using the IDs to get their info, how are you monetizing this? As I have made a script a couple week ago now to do just that but couldn't think how to market it.

chronic said:

@chris456

I have a web based script that I coded to do the extraction and everything but was looking into coding a VB application but finding it difficult to learn the code ATM, so I decided to make a web based script. I have also lately been thinking of making a script for everyone to use to submit peoples profiles to where you can add comments of interests of the account etc. and the account's pics, info, country etc. would be there. This will be like a catalogue of FB profiles say and anyone could use the library as a membership kind of thing like $5 per month lets say.. Well the main function of the library is for blackhatters to find their targeted members..

But what I was wanting to ask you is, using the IDs to get their info, how are you monetizing this? As I have made a script a couple week ago now to do just that but couldn't think how to market it.

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I don't monetize them at all, because I have never earned 1$ with my websites till now, I run a dance & hostess agency , I have a lot of dancers (2000+ ) from eastern europe and they are dancing in nightclubs in western europe , I charge the clubs for those dancers on daily basis , so this would help me to find new clubs , find new girls (friends or fans ) of those clubs , so basicaly this is the reason why I search and I am interested in those programs , I am extracting nightclubs info for 2 years (I ve spent a lot of money for Web Extracting Tools and I welcome every new tool for use for my purposes , I can say that I don't sleep well for almost 2 years, because I am really working very hard to get very detailed info about every single club in the world) , at this moment I have almost 200K - 500K clubs (1 milion not sorted nightclub niche related websites) very detailed from all over the world (my best competitors has about 20K- first page in google for "nightclub" keyword ) , so I believe that in future I will also start to earn the money from my websites (had about 30 sites/wordpress) .


About this tool:
I would be very happy if somebody would create some FACEBOOK Desktop tool where the people should extract all the friends & fans with all their data's and pictures and then also manage (sort ) them there into groups , folders , whatever.
$5 /month is perfect price but many people including me maybe prefer to pay 50$ once (I wouldn't charge this program for 50$ because scrapebox costs the same and you would never compare simple FB database with scrapebox) , I think that many programmers would charge small fee and sell in thousands or milions rather than ask more and don't sell nothing , membership I don't believe would be a good choice. (facebook is for free and to pay monthly for additional services is not a good idea , like I've said , Facebook has a huge base of users , you should use it , because good cheap tool , you can sell in milion pieces over night and you can't be afraid that your cheap tool will somebody want to crack.
Of course if I would be only owner of similar tool I would pay 100$ very gladly and if I would have a rights to resell it I would pay much more. At this moment with 3 tools I can get the same result , but of course I would prefer to have everything in ONE.

What I was thinking was a little different to what you must of understood..

As for what you are wanting, Facebook already has this feature, but not desktop wise. If you go to 'Account' on the far right and select 'Edit Friends', to the right of the centre column it has a button with the writing 'Create a list' - this allows you do group all your friends together but not in as much functionality as you are looking for.

chronic said:

What I was thinking was a little different to what you must of understood..

As for what you are wanting, Facebook already has this feature, but not desktop wise. If you go to 'Account' on the far right and select 'Edit Friends', to the right of the centre column it has a button with the writing 'Create a list' - this allows you do group all your friends together but not in as much functionality as you are looking for.

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My English is unfortunately not very good , so it is not your fault , I think that I understand what you wanted to say , but I hate web scripts if I can have some offline tool , I would be much more happier ,I like working offline , and if I have something to edit , change I connect with the web , I have many times a lot of problems to chat on fb , not only to browse the friends so , less I will use original facebook , better is , about that function above I knew (sort them in the list) , but i told you it is a pain in the ass to use some functions there.
About the catalogue I really maybe didn't get it well , do you want to create some web based script to manage that fb members?

I understand what you are asking for.. And I think I might give this a go.. I know I could easily do it as a web script but if I expanded my knowledge of VB I could make an offline version..

chronic said:

I understand what you are asking for.. And I think I might give this a go.. I know I could easily do it as a web script but if I expanded my knowledge of VB I could make an offline version..

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Excellent , in fact it is only offline (or also online) database of your (in my case of all users I grab) users you have in your account.
Extracting database shouldn't be a problem because there are only data you know like:

"id":
"name":
"first_name":
"last_name":
"link":
"gender":
"locale":


So you only need to extract everything behind every delimited field like : "last_name:" ........
in every line
some simple pattern string should help you to do that , even that program above you can use "data extractor", that program has field for the PHP , Javascript script codes or for wildcards , regex . data extractor above is created for those purposes , if you click on link you will get serial for that program so you can try it . I was searching for regex for between <body> extraction on the web , I tried 3 , but it didn't work , and I am not expert , neither programmer so I had no will to search for it and to try it more. but it should work for sure.

If you will create your own program , it should be even better , you should add other functions like (sorting , synching with web facebook, posting ) then you should charge a good money and maybe many students from all over the world would welcome something like that.

@chris

So basically the application is supposed to load the profile urls from a textfile and then extract each profile data in its own folder?

And about email extraction?

hatemachine said:

@chris

So basically the application is supposed to load the profile urls from a textfile and then extract each profile data in its own folder?

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Will explain :
I am with Facebook Friend Finder extracting my friends ID's and also friends of my friend's (briefly all my niche related people ) so I have now about 50K member ID's , I can use them to start to ask them to add me like a friend in other accounts or I can ask them if they want to add my page like a fan .

• But how can I know who is who ?
• How can I sort them if I want to ask them to join me in the way more targeted?

I see only a lot of ID numbers , I know that they should be all related to my product , but there can be also their relatives etc. , so I was trying to find out how can I extract their names , surnames , sex , locale (country) and also their photos , the code which provided me CHRONIC is able to extract this info from browser , so if I convert every ID number to URL by adding http://graph.facebook.com/ before every .....ID...... , I can use some extractor (Visual Web Spider did the work very well) and it gives me all the info about everyone in each line.
So now I can convert everything in CSV and have it any some offline database (then I can sort them , remove them , I can do whatever I want , i have my facebook friends in some Database Viewer , so now it is easy to do everything .

What I want from Chronic is if he creates some simple tool which will
substitute all 3 tools I use now:
1.Text editor - which I use for inserting http://graph.facebook.com/in first column before every ID
2.Extractor - which is extracting data from the lists of URls from the web page's <body>
3.Database Viewer and Exporter - for viewing the data and exporting to the CSV file.

In fact it is very simple - tool should add http://graph.facebook.com/ before every ID , tool should visit this Facebook graph info page and tool should grab this info to a database ( database should be seen visually in some table or he can only make normally some option only to export it in some CSV , excel file.
If he will do more , would be even better because it would use mass of people who wants to organize their friends offline (sort , post comments , sync , etc.)

white92 said:

And about email extraction?

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you should ask Chronic , I think that it should be easy too , but not everybody has their email addresses in their profiles , for sure more info we get better is -

chris456 said:

Will explain :
I am with Facebook Friend Finder extracting my friends ID's and also friends of my friend's (briefly all my niche related people ) so I have now about 50K member ID's , I can use them to start to ask them to add me like a friend in other accounts or I can ask them if they want to add my page like a fan .

• But how can I know who is who ?
• How can I sort them if I want to ask them to join me in the way more targeted?

I see only a lot of ID numbers , I know that they should be all related to my product , but there can be also their relatives etc. , so I was trying to find out how can I extract their names , surnames , sex , locale (country) and also their photos , the code which provided me CHRONIC is able to extract this info from browser , so if I convert every ID number to URL by adding http://graph.facebook.com/ before every .....ID...... , I can use some extractor (Visual Web Spider did the work very well) and it gives me all the info about everyone in each line.
So now I can convert everything in CSV and have it any some offline database (then I can sort them , remove them , I can do whatever I want , i have my facebook friends in some Database Viewer , so now it is easy to do everything .

What I want from Chronic is if he creates some simple tool which will
substitute all 3 tools I use now:
1.Text editor - which I use for inserting http://graph.facebook.com/in first column before every ID
2.Extractor - which is extracting data from the lists of URls from the web page's <body>
3.Database Viewer and Exporter - for viewing the data and exporting to the CSV file.

In fact it is very simple - tool should add http://graph.facebook.com/ before every ID , tool should visit this Facebook graph info page and tool should grab this info to a database ( database should be seen visually in some table or he can only make normally some option only to export it in some CSV , excel file.
If he will do more , would be even better because it would use mass of people who wants to organize their friends offline (sort , post comments , sync , etc.)

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You should create a vb.net program that will go through each ID and extract all fields into csv. Should not be much difficult. You will get far more better result than using all these database viewer and so on.

Thanks

blogbd1 said:

You should create a vb.net program that will go through each ID and extract all fields into csv. Should not be much difficult. You will get far more better result than using all these database viewer and so on.

Thanks

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This is exactly what Chronic and me intended to do . Create some program in VB . I wrote that I wanted to substitute all those viewers , editors , extractors . One simple program in VB which does it all. According me is better to implement simple database viewer and not only database CSV exporter, because otherwise the program will serve only to blackhatters , using it for managing data in excel . I think that programmers should do it for bigger mass of people to create some kind of Facebook Friends & Fans viewer & sorter .

I found this to work for a full info, only thing is that it is without the email adress:

graph api with some perl regex will do the job. if you have only couple account you can save the file and change it to csv and then use excel filters to manage the list, then copy what ever u need.

chris456 said:

Will explain :
I am with Facebook Friend Finder extracting my friends ID's and also friends of my friend's (briefly all my niche related people ) so I have now about 50K member ID's , I can use them to start to ask them to add me like a friend in other accounts or I can ask them if they want to add my page like a fan .

• But how can I know who is who ?
• How can I sort them if I want to ask them to join me in the way more targeted?

I see only a lot of ID numbers , I know that they should be all related to my product , but there can be also their relatives etc. , so I was trying to find out how can I extract their names , surnames , sex , locale (country) and also their photos , the code which provided me CHRONIC is able to extract this info from browser , so if I convert every ID number to URL by adding http://graph.facebook.com/ before every .....ID...... , I can use some extractor (Visual Web Spider did the work very well) and it gives me all the info about everyone in each line.
So now I can convert everything in CSV and have it any some offline database (then I can sort them , remove them , I can do whatever I want , i have my facebook friends in some Database Viewer , so now it is easy to do everything .

What I want from Chronic is if he creates some simple tool which will
substitute all 3 tools I use now:
1.Text editor - which I use for inserting http://graph.facebook.com/in first column before every ID
2.Extractor - which is extracting data from the lists of URls from the web page's <body>
3.Database Viewer and Exporter - for viewing the data and exporting to the CSV file.

In fact it is very simple - tool should add http://graph.facebook.com/ before every ID , tool should visit this Facebook graph info page and tool should grab this info to a database ( database should be seen visually in some table or he can only make normally some option only to export it in some CSV , excel file.
If he will do more , would be even better because it would use mass of people who wants to organize their friends offline (sort , post comments , sync , etc.)

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Did you manage to get this software, I am very interested to get one, i am willing to pay if someone can make it or if you want to share your copy. I will appreciate your help. Please let me know.

blogbd1 said:

You should create a vb.net program that will go through each ID and extract all fields into csv. Should not be much difficult. You will get far more better result than using all these database viewer and so on.

Thanks

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Can you make this program for me ? how much will you charge? please PM me if you are interested.

Added this feature to facedominator. Thanks guys for showing the need

Hi there,

Does this still work? I need to extract email addresses from Web addresses for a niche (I only need email addresses no other info). I downloaded data extractor 3.3 and really couldn't go anywhere from there. Do you (any one) mind giving me a bit of a guide please? This will mean a whole lot to me!!! Thank you!

i know this is post is old so hopefully you get this somehow or someone can help me. but I've gotten all the way to the part where you enter the information in Visual Web Spider but I can't get it to return the results the way you have. help please