A tool to automatically scrape Facebook data from an user's profile.
Work in progress.
Initialize a new facebook object with numeric/vanity ID of user.
const facebook = new Facebook('zuck')Open facebook and perform login. This is optional, but some actions requires a loggedin user.
await facebook.open().then(async () => await facebook.login())Returns numeric ID, username and (if exists) vanity ID.
const user = await facebook.getUser()Returns a list of a user's friends (containing user ID, username and profile URL).
const friends = await facebook.getFriends()Returns a list of a user's photos.
const photos = await facebook.getPhotos()Close facebook.
await facebook.close()Open config.js file for configuration.
Turn debugging mode on/off
debug: true/false
Set browser visibility on/off
visible: true/false
Set a custom user agent string
useragent: '<your-custom-user-agent-string>'
Set timeout in milliseconds to wait for a page has loaded. In this example, timeout variable was set to 30 seconds.
timeout: 30000
Set browser proxy in host:port format. In this example, proxy variable was set to https://127.0.0.1:8000 for a HTTPS proxy. If you wish to use a torified network (Tor Browser), set proxy to socks5://127.0.0.1:9050 with a running Tor client in the background.
proxy: 'https://127.0.0.1:8000'
Set further browser options. In this example, the browser was set to use no sandboxes and ignore certificate errors.
options: ['--no-sandbox', '--disable-setuid-sandbox', '--ignore-certificate-errors']
Set username and password of an existing Facebook account
username: 'foo@example.com',
password: 'helloworld'