minhdqdev/get-facebook-friends-id

Get all fbid of your friends with Selenium

get-facebook-friends-id

Get all fbid of your friends with Selenium

Getting Started

Step 1: Setup

• Install Selenium and geckodriver for Firefox.
• Install BeautifulSoup

Step 2: Config

• Copy sample_user_config.json to a new file user_config.json.
• Replace the user and password.

Step 3: Use

• Run get_fbid.py or get_fbid_better.py. You can see the different in result of 2 files in the Benchmark section.

Benchmark

1. Use facebook. no GUI

time python get_fbid.py

real    0m48.206s
user    0m52.522s
sys     0m5.680s

friendlist: 349

2. Use Facebook Mobile, no GUI

time python get_fbid_better.py

real    0m23.611s
user    0m12.344s
sys     0m2.572s

friendlist: 287

Ground truth: 389

Conclusion

You should use the first method because it has a better result, which is more important than time optimization.