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I don't think it's a big deal but I guess the author wanted to point out an easy way to crawl this public info. There are similar ways to crawl public Facebook
by blueberry 16y ago
I don't think it's a big deal but I guess the author wanted to point out an easy way to crawl this public info. There are similar ways to crawl public Facebook profiles too, so it's really not a big deal.
- retube 16y agoRe facebook: really? I'd be interested in a hint here....
- ulrich 16y agohttp://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/4726/view-facebook-friend-list-hidden-or-not-hidden http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/4726/view-faceboo...
- chronomex 16y agoI have my Facebook profile closed down as tightly as Zuckerberg will allow, so this doesn't return anything for me.
- chronomex 16y agoI have my Facebook profile closed down as tightly as Zuckerberg will allow, so this doesn't return anything for me.
- thamer 16y agoHave you tried it? This was posted in January, but doesn't seem to work anymore. curl -A Opera 'http://www.facebook.com/ajax/typeahead_friends.php?u=4&__a=1' for (;;);{"error":0,"errorSummary":"","errorDescription":"","errorIsWarning":false,"silentError":0,"payload":{"friends":[]}}
- blueberry 16y agobrowse through the family names at your convenience: http://facebook.com/family http://facebook.com/family Search the public statuses of Facebook users (this is done via the API): http://youropenbook.org/ http://youropenbook.org/
- joshfraser 16y agopete warden tried that and got sued by facebook. they have since changed their robots.txt to forbid public crawling of their site although they still want the google juice so they make exceptions for major search engines.
- blueberry 16y agoI said you can _crawl_ in the sense that it's technically possible & easy. Also I don't think you'd get into trouble if you use it for your own research and not disclose your results.