why not add the ability to get phone numbers too?
Facebook Doesn't Own My Friends: Chrome extension exports Facebook contacts
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Re: Facebook Doesn't Own My Friends: Chrome extension exports Facebook contacts
#12I wanted to test this, but never found a way to activate it... How do you activate this? There is no "how to" text on the project page either (or I didn't find it).
There should be a red link in the top right corner of your facebook page that says "Export friends!" (right to the left of the "Home" link).
Once you click that, just follow the accompanying instructions and it should work - although be warned it takes a long time, especially if you're doing it for a lot of "Friends".
Re: Facebook Doesn't Own My Friends: Chrome extension exports Facebook contacts
#13I wanted to test this, but never found a way to activate it... How do you activate this? There is no "how to" text on the project page either (or I didn't find it).
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Re: Facebook Doesn't Own My Friends: Chrome extension exports Facebook contacts
#14I'm trying to get all of my friends to use .tel domains. That way they own their data and I can discover all of their URIs dynamically (through DNS) from various apps. It doubles up as a web based "business card", which makes it a slightly easier sell.
Why .tel, rather than a more common TLD?
I was curious too; from wikipedia:
"In contrast to other top-level domains .tel information is stored directly within the Domain Name System (DNS), within the actual domain name record, as opposed to the DNS simply returning details (such as IP addresses) of the machines on which information can be found."
Re: Facebook Doesn't Own My Friends: Chrome extension exports Facebook contacts
#15I'm trying to get all of my friends to use .tel domains. That way they own their data and I can discover all of their URIs dynamically (through DNS) from various apps. It doubles up as a web based "business card", which makes it a slightly easier sell.
This just seems ripe for dns injection tomfoolery.
Re: Facebook Doesn't Own My Friends: Chrome extension exports Facebook contacts
#16I felt the same way about my Facebook messages. Before they released the archive tool, I wrote this: http://fb.quadhome.com/ I wonder if, since the Chrome extension is Javascript, it could be injected into a bookmarklet and made to run on anyone's browser...
The Chrome extension looks like it includes more than just the exporting code, which does look like something that could be fairly trivially made into a bookmarklet. http://code.google.com/p/fb-exporter/source/browse/trunk/fb-...
But it also has the ability to automagically use OAuth to connect with gmail to upload contact information.
Re: Facebook Doesn't Own My Friends: Chrome extension exports Facebook contacts
#17I'm trying to get all of my friends to use .tel domains. That way they own their data and I can discover all of their URIs dynamically (through DNS) from various apps. It doubles up as a web based "business card", which makes it a slightly easier sell.
Why .tel, rather than a more common TLD?
Because .tel was approved specifically (and solely) for this purpose :) Here's Telnic's quick 5 minute pitch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnRwniqqiCE
Re: Facebook Doesn't Own My Friends: Chrome extension exports Facebook contacts
#18This is gold! Facebook is gonna get so angry. I wonder what their next move will be.
Found this http://code.google.com/p/fb-exporter/source/browse/trunk/fb-...
if (request.pissOffZuckerberg) { startExportFriendData(); }
Re: Facebook Doesn't Own My Friends: Chrome extension exports Facebook contacts
#19why not add the ability to get phone numbers too?
Yeah, for me this would be one of the more important features, since I've on more than one occasion had to access FB to get a phone number.
Re: Facebook Doesn't Own My Friends: Chrome extension exports Facebook contacts
#20I would highly recommend against using this tool, as it is against Facebook's Terms of Service. Robert Scoble was kicked off Facebook in January 2008 for pulling a stunt exactly like this (http://scobleizer.com/2008/01/03/ive-been-kicked-off-of-face...). While his fame and contacts allowed him to get his account reinstated in short order, many of us might not be so fortunate.