Retrieve Facebook Fan Names

Question

I'm trying to grab the names of fans of a Facebook fan page that I administer. I've done some snooping around, and apparently, the FB API doesn't support that, but Facebook actually uses AJAX/JSON to populate the list. Anyways, can anyone suggest a way to make that call myself and grab the data as plain text?

Also, I've found a hack that a guy wrote in Ruby, but I am completely unfamiliar with the language.

Thanks for the help in advance!

Solution 1

At the current time the FQL schema would suggest that there is no way to get a collection of FANS for any given PAGE. I think they are hiding this information because they display the FANS on the page... One would think that at least the ADMIN would have privileges to see the list of users.

Anyway... I hope someone make is possible in the near future.

Solution 2

can you please try this and let me know :

select uid,name from user where uid in ( select uid from page_fan where uid in (select uid2 from friend where uid1 = me()) and page_id = 'Your Page Id')

I think you can get it only for the currently logged in user and his / her friends only.

Solution 3

If you have less than 500 fans, you can use the following url:

http://www.facebook.com/browse/?type=page_fans&page_id=13207908137&start=400

Each page will give you 100 fans. Change &start to (0, 100, 200, 300, 400) to get the first 500. If &start is >= 401, the page will be blank :(

Comments

[ajbeaven]

Nah, the page_id isn't an indexable column on the page_fan table. As seen here: developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/page_fan. Only * columns are indexed.

[Kon]

This works, but it's pretty useless - it just gets a list of your friends who have also liked the page.

[billy]

object_id doesn't work for page ids... "The object_id of an object on Facebook. This can be a video, note, link, photo, or photo album." developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/like

[Patricia]

This doesn't really answer the question at all. he's looking for the users names, not the id.

[aalaap]

Another thing to note is that this gives you the most recent fans/likes list, so if you keep polling even &start=0 regularly, you'll get everything... provided you run the script from day one.

[Lachlan McDonald]

Its against the Facebook platform policy to scrape a Facebook page for information.

[Jack Marchetti]

can't you get the user's names from the UID?

[Amit Patel]

It Works. It gives uid and name. From uid you can access required user's details. Thanks.

[philipthegreat]

This may be obvious, but the ID needs to be replaced by your page's page ID. You can find your page ID here: findmyfacebookid.com

[user2475624]

@philipthegreat the pageid tool loooks like broke, Got it from here - findmyfbid.in