Facebook friend network

Please make an issue if it is not working for you! I'll do my best to help :) Please read this entire readme before doing anything.

How to use:

Getting data:

1. Check you have all the requirements installed.
2. Create a .env file with the following content:

CHROME_DRIVER_PATH="/home/you/path/to/the/chromedriver"
FRIENDS_LIST="https://www.facebook.com/yourUsername/friends"

You can get a Chrome driver on https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads and make sure you have a username on Facebook. 3. Run python facebook.py. 4. Log in to Facebook in the pop up window, then go back to the terminal and press enter.

Constructing Graph

1. Once it has finished, open Gephi and click new project.
2. Go to Data Laboratory, then edges. Now, import spreadsheet. Select facebook.csv.
3. Go to Overview. Choose the Force Atlas layout and press play.
4. Just kinda play around with Gephi until you get something you like :) you can even colour nodes.

Saving Graph

1. Go to preview to make sure you like how it looks.
2. File > Export > whatever filetype you want.
3. Finally you can go to an image editor to draw labels and stuff.

Requirements:

• Chrome browser
• Selenium: pip install Selenium
• TQDM: pip install tqdm
• DotEnv: pip install python-dotenv
• Driver according to your Chrome version and OS: https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads
• Gephi, unless you have some other plan for drawing your graph

More info:

Currently does not detect facebook friends who do not have usernames. For example, www.facebook.com/user_name is detected, but www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=123456789 is not.

Also ignores friends who have no mutual friends, and those whose accounts are deactivated.

Waits a few seconds before going to different profiles. This makes it slow, but if we go too fast, Facebook will give a temporary ban.

I have tried to reduce the risk of getting a temporary ban, but I can't guarantee anything. If you get banned, it is not my responsibility.