How To Export Facebook Page Fans?

Extract fan database from Facebook page

• I am trying to export Facebook Page Fans. The closer I found was http://adamloving.com/internet-programming/how-toexport-facebook-page-fans. It states: Getting fans from a Facebook page is not yet supported by the Facebook API. Luckily, the Facebook Web interface uses a simple AJAX/JSON call to supply the data when you view the page.the data when you view the page. And he explains what he does like this: My strategy to set this data free was to sniff the network traffic with the Wireshark tool, then replay the HTTP calls with a ruby script.calls with a ruby script. I don´t know anything about ruby so I started trying with a PHP scripts left in one of the comments, the one by: "Etienne Bley" The script goes like http://pastie.org/1284701. The script says you can download http://www.charlesproxy.com/ to find this variables: $cookie $node_id $post_form_id $fb_dtsg When I use the Charles Proxy Soft, and login to as administrator I get this: And from there I get what I guess is the cookie variable: BTW Is it safe to share the whole cookie?? is it helpful? (if it is I´ll edit asap) The script also says: // set settings in these 4 lines from results of charles when getting the 2nd page of "Get All Fans" in FB ( you need to be admin of fan page to do this ) I can´t understand what does he mean by: getting the 2nd page So, my questions: 1) What are this variables? 2) What are their values? How should/can I get them? 3) To have this scripts set correctly is the only thing I need for this script to work? I hope the question is clear enough, if not please ask any questions you need! Thanks in advance!

• Answer:

  I don't know about Charles Proxy Soft, but I used Chrome's excellent Inspector to trace the request. Steps: Use Chrome to navigate to the Facebook Page you're interested in Open up the Inspector (CTRL+Shift+J on Windows), go to the "Resources" tab and "Enable Resource Tracking". On the Facebook page, click "See all" in the Fans box on the left side of the page. Scroll to the bottom of the fan list, and click "Next" In the Resources tab, you'll have a request to /ajax/social_graph/fetch.php. Click on that, and in the Headers tab you'll see what you need. In my example: I'm sure you can do that with a hundred different other programs, I find it easier to use Chrome since it's already there :)