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by bhousel 5503 days 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/

2 comments

Graph API does not expose phone numbers
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.
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
Yeah, you can. You can get alot out of the Graph API.

  https://graph.facebook.com/me/friends?fields=birthday&access_token=[...]
oops, ok my bad! Thank you :)
what's really missing is the phone numbers.