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Note that this does not import your friends' EMAIL ADDRESSES. Might be just be, but I find the pitch a little bit deceptive: to me, "Friends to Gmail" implies t
by portman 15y ago
Note that this does not import your friends' EMAIL ADDRESSES. Might be just be, but I find the pitch a little bit deceptive: to me, "Friends to Gmail" implies that you can subsequently email those friends.
- qeorge 15y agoI had the same (incorrect) assumption. Emails would definitely be more useful. That said, via the Facebook API a user can give your app permission to access their own email, but they (thankfully) cannot give your app permission to access the emails of their friends. I'd guess that's why he wasn't able to include emails in the CSV.
- fjabre 15y agoYep. That's the walled garden bit people are pissed off about. You'd have to create a pretty nasty hack to get around it and you'd probably be shutdown anyway.
- reemrevnivek 15y agoI think I recall someone using OCR for this a few years back. They were shut down, as you suspected.
- bretthellman 15y agow/o email what is the benefit?
- theli0nheart 15y agoI made this yesterday because someone on a mailing list I'm on wanted to view his friends birthdays on his Google Calendar and merge in some other contact info. I'm working on email addresses, but as others have noted, it's not in the API and would probably get this application banned...which wouldn't be the first time for me as many of you may know ;)
- kzar 15y agoI wrote an app that puts Facebook birthdays (and events) in Google calendar a while back: http://calenderp.appspot.com http://calenderp.appspot.com (Just re-writing it now actually, few improvements here and this time I'm doing it in Clojure.)
- kacy 15y agoYou can do this via yahoo mail. It's the only service I've seen that exports email addresses. I signed up for a fake yahoo account a few months ago. Works perfectly and exports to .csv just like this app.