Question
Is there an relatively painless way to export contacts from Facebook?
Background
I'm helping my wife get contact info for her network. I've read the answer to this related question on getting FB contacts into gMail but:
- That greasemonkey script is way too complicated for my
wife - This guy admits that he barely knew what he was doing when he wrote the tool
- According to his most recent update,
facebook has changed their site and,
thereby, broken his script - I don't care where the data goes, it doesn't have to be gMail, I just need it out of facebook. It could end up in notepad for all I care!
I've read related questions that deal with email info but I mainly need phone numbers.
There must be an easier solution for getting this done. In fact, my Android phone has a widget that gives access to my facebook phonebook so there MUST be some way to get this data out. It's so sad that this isn't already built into facebook–their walled garden can be so frustrating.
EDIT:
Bounty added. If anyone can give me any remotely useful advice on how to pull the phone numbers for my facebook contacts, I'll give full bounty.
Best Answer
I also have this need, but have not found a perfect solution yet. Here is my semi-painful solution:
First I registered at Backupify, they generate a backup of my Facebook data once in a while.
And here is what I do when I want to sync from Facebook to my address book:
I actually wrote a trivial script that filters out the friends whose facebook id is not already in my address book, to produce an HTML list of links to the missing friends' Facebook info pages, from where I can copy-paste.
Getting the phone numbers automatically would probably require screen-scraping, which I don't do.
I have given up on:
But I would be glad if someone came with a better solution.