whlk/SocialSnapshot

Social snapshots are a hybrid system that is based on a custom add-on for social networks in combination with a web crawling component. The tool collects profile information (user data, private messages, photos, etc.) and associated meta-data (internal timestamps and unique identifiers) from Facebook accounts. More information is available at: http://socialsnapshot.nysos.net

Setup

socialsnapshot third-party Facebook application (php)

• Requirements: php5, php5-curl, Apache2/nginx
• Deploy php directory on webserver
• Change ownership of files to www-data
• Copy settings.inc.php.example to settings.inc.php
• Edit settings.inc.php to reflect your set-up

socialsnapshot Facebook Client (java)

• Requirement: JRE 1.6
• Copy java/socialsnapshot.config.example to java/socialsnapshot.config
• Edit settings in java/socialsnapshot.config to reflect your set-up

Usage

Start Selenium Server

• java -jar java/server-patched.jar

Start Client with HTTP cookie authentication

• java -jar socialsnapshot.jar fbid@somehost.com 'c_user=11111 lu=xxx ...'

Start Client with password authentication

• java -jar socialsnapshot.jar fbid@somehost.com "secretpw"

#Results

contact details and socialsnapshot Client log

• Local files in /results snapshot11111.csv snapshot11111.log

socialsnapshot data from third-party application

• Client will return an URI to fetch data
• e.g. http://test.com/SocialSnapshot/php/download.php?id=snapshot11111