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How to collect Fans of a Facebook page
/*
Note : based on this script, there is a big gap between the number of returned profiles
and the counter that Facebook displays on Pages.
*/
/*
To collect Fan's ID of a Facebook page (provided you are admin of the page),
open this page swapping YOUR_PAGE_ID with... your page id
https://www.facebook.com/browse/page_fans/?page_id=YOUR_PAGE_ID
and then dump JS bellow in Firebug or Chrome console en execute
*/
window.NodeList.prototype.forEach = window.Array.prototype.forEach;
var profiles = [];
function evaluation() {
document.querySelectorAll(".fbProfileBrowserListItem").forEach(function(item, index) {
var profile = item.querySelector("a").getAttribute("href");
profiles.push(profile.match(/https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/(.*)/)[1]);
item.parentNode.removeChild(item);
});
if(document.querySelector(".uiMorePagerPrimary").click){
document.querySelector(".uiMorePagerPrimary").click();
}
return profiles;
};
function evaluate(){
evaluation();
console.log("Grabbed", profiles.length);
timeout = window.setTimeout(evaluate, 500);
}
var timeout = window.setTimeout(evaluate, 500);
/* end */
// When you think you reached the number of profile you wanted just dumped this and execute
clearTimeout(timeout);
profiles.join("\n")
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