Scrapes Facebook to gather profile IDs

fbscrap_getIDs.py

"""
fbscrap_getIDs.py:
Used to gather real Facebook profile IDs (https://github.com/gsscoder/facebook-snooper/).
For version: 0.4.3
Usage: python3 fbscrap_getIDs output_file.txt
"""

import requests
import json
import sys
import random
import getpass
import facebook_snooper

names_json = requests.get(
    'https://gist.githubusercontent.com/gsscoder/e0e905fbef23376aabfa695d85d8ef5c/raw/c250e439541647e3b2125922a04e1323ae51ff7a/names.json')
names = json.loads(names_json.content)

random.shuffle(names)

username = input('username: ')
password = getpass.getpass()

all_ids = []

print('Attempting connection...')

try:
    with facebook_snooper.default_session() \
            .log_in(username, password) as fb:
        for name in names[:10]:
            print(f'Searching Profile IDs for {name}.')
            results = fb.search(name)
            ids = [id for id, _, _ in results]
            all_ids.extend(ids)
        with open(sys.argv[1], 'w') as out:
            out.write('\n'.join(all_ids))
except Exception as err:
    sys.stderr.write(f'ERROR: {err}\n')