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A pretty basic facebook friend activity tracker in PHP

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fb-sleep-php

A pretty basic facebook friend activity tracker in PHP

this was inspired by the medium post "How you can use facebook to track your friends sleeping habits"

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Instructions

  • get facebook.php and save it.
  • get base_facebook.php and save it.
  • make sure your directory is writable, so the sqlite database can be created automatically
  • look inside index.php and fill in the required configuration details according to the comments: App ID/Secret, Facebook profile URL, Facebook profile ID and XS cookie value (use the developer tools on facebook.com to find this).
  • create a cron job or some other way to have index.php?update called in regular intervals. I suggest 10-20 minutes.
  • let it run for a few days and have a look at the stats.

please note: over time the database may grow relatively large, depending on how many friends you're tracking. mine grows about 50-100kb a day. there is currently no way to limit this and you'll have to devise your own, or simply delete the database every month or so. or stop the cron job.