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Using FbConsole (Ruby/Mechanize/Nokogiri) to crawl your facebook friends' profiles
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require 'benchmark' | |
$count = 0 | |
def to_the_end(agent) | |
# Check if we have bottomed out (no more sub-category links) | |
if agent.page.at("#sections/div[@class='acw apm']/span[@class='mfss fcg']").nil? | |
# Find the unique identifier (a friend's name), which we'll use to find their profile links | |
agent.page.search("#sections/div/div[@class='abt acw']/div[@class='ib']/div/a/span").each do |friend_name| | |
agent.page.link_with(:text => friend_name.text.strip).click # Visit each profile | |
puts "--- Profile #{agent.page.title}... " # Perform some action ('i was here' to console) | |
$count += 1 | |
agent.history.pop # Unvisit each profile | |
end | |
return | |
end | |
# Need to click more subdivisions yet | |
subdivisions = agent.page.at("#sections/div[@class='acw apm']/span[@class='mfss fcg']").text.split("\u00B7") | |
subdivisions.each do |i| | |
agent.page.link_with(:text => i.strip).click | |
to_the_end(agent) | |
agent.history.pop # Backtrack up the tree | |
end | |
end | |
#-------------- Activation -------------------- | |
console = FbConsole.new | |
console.login('email', 'password') | |
console.Profile | |
console.agent.page.link_with(:text => 'Info').click | |
console.agent.page.link_with(:text => /Total Friends/).click | |
time = Benchmark.realtime do | |
to_the_end(console.agent) | |
end | |
puts "\nVisited #{$count} profiles: #{time} seconds" | |
puts "#{time/$count*1000} ms per profile average." |
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