Facebook – How to export the social graph out of Facebook

Go to http://www.facebook.com/deactivate.php. Your account will be suspended and not be displayed to others in any way, but you can always re-enable it by simply logging in again.

You will not lose any data, everything you entered as well as your list of friends and all application settings are preserved.

As stated in the FAQ:

To deactivate your account, navigate to the "Settings" tab on the Account Settings page. Deactivation will remove your profile and content associated with your account from Facebook. In addition, users will not be able to search for you or view any of your information.

If you’d like to come back to Facebook anytime after you’ve deactivated your account, you can reactivate your account by logging in with your email and password. Your profile will be restored in its entirety (friends, photos, interests, etc.). Remember that you will need to have access to the login email address on the account in order to reactivate it.

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:

1. In the Backupify, open the `***_MetaData` file, where *** is your Facebook name.
2. In each line of this file, retrieve facebook id, name, birthday, current location.

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:

• Full automation.
• Synchronization of contacts that I have already in my address book.

But I would be glad if someone came with a better solution.