/fb-sleep-stats

Use Facebook to track your friends’ sleeping habits

Primary LanguageJavaScriptMIT LicenseMIT

fb-sleep-stats: Using Facebook to track your friends' sleep

A small tool to show the potential privacy implications modern social media have. By tracking online/offline status of people on Facebook, it is possible to get an accurate image of their sleep pattern.

Read the blog post: https://medium.com/@sqrendk/how-you-can-use-facebook-to-track-your-friends-sleeping-habits-505ace7fffb6

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Installation

Requirements

  • Node.js

Clone repository

git clone https://github.com/sqren/fb-sleep-stats.git

Configuration

Open the source code folder:

cd fb-sleep-stats

Copy the default config file:

cp config/default.json config/development.json

Update the following values in config/development.json

Make sure there are no trailing tabs or spaces in the config file!

Install dependencies

npm install

Build browser dependencies

npm run webpack

Starting

Start scraping

This will run continously, polling Facebook every 10 minutes. Keep it running for as long as you want to track sleep.

npm run scrape

Start server

npm start

See the result in the browser

http://localhost:3000

#Troubleshooting

I get an error when running "npm run webpack"

Try re-installing the node-modules:

rm -rf node_modules
npm install
npm run webpack

No users show up

  • If you have an ad-blocker, you must disable it for the site.
  • You need to run npm run scrape and keep it running. When you stop it, it will stop tracking.

Changes to development.json are not picked up

  • You have to run npm run webpack

How do I update to the latest version?

After pulling the latest version, you must rebuild the dependencies:

git pull
rm -rf node_modules
npm install
npm run webpack

Other issues

If you encounter a bug or have a problem, please go to Issues and use the search functionality, in case someone else already asked the question. If you can't find anything helpful you are very welcome to create a new issue

Disclaimer

Facebook reached out to me and informed me, that it is against their terms to access their website by automated means. Additionally I am not allowed to urge anyone to do so. Therefore: I urge you to use this project for educational purpose only, and not use it to access Facebook.