View facebook friend list [hidden or not hidden]

lynx -useragent=Opera -dump 'http://www.facebook.com/ajax/typeahead_friends.php?u=4&__a=1' |gawk -F'\"t\":\"' -v RS='\",' 'RT{print $NF}' |grep -v '\"n\":\"' |cut -d, -f2

There's no need to be logged in facebook. I could do more JSON filtering but you get the idea... Replace u=4 (Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook creator) with desired uid. Hidden or not hidden... Scary, don't you?

Sample Output

(...)
Stephen Heise
"u":"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/heise
Yvonne Chan
"u":"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=1572606235
David Ebersman
"u":"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ebersman
Jack Xu
"u":"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100000155763568

By: vlan7

2010-01-29 15:10:35

cut gawk grep privacy facebook

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View facebook friend list [hidden or not hidden]

php -r "echo ini_get('allow_url_fopen');" php -r "echo function_exists('curl_init');" php -r "echo function_exists('json_decode');" Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
php -r "echo ini_get('allow_url_fopen');"
php -r "echo function_exists('curl_init');"
php -r "echo function_exists('json_decode');"
```
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php -r "echo ini_get('allow_url_fopen');" php -r "echo function_exists('curl_init');" php -r "echo function_exists('json_decode');"

kashanpk · 2013-11-23 08:56:52 7
View facebook friend list [hidden or not hidden]
This is sample output - yours may be different.
0

fbcmd FSTATUS =all

thami · 2013-12-05 22:56:12 9

What Others Think

uhm.. this may sound stupid, but how do i get my (anyone elses) userid? all facebook displays is a username (e.g. in my case 'drazraeltod') that doesn't seem to work another question: why using lynx instead of wget or curl? did i miss something important?

DrAzraelTod · 742 weeks and 5 days ago

ah.. forget the last part of the question... i just found a friend without username and he has of course my id in his list :-)

DrAzraelTod · 742 weeks and 5 days ago

We could use wget / curl. No problem. It's our choice. But don't forget to specify the user-agent. Facebook only accepts well-known user-agents... i.e. if we use wget we should type this syntax: wget -O - --user-agent='Opera' (...) P.S. You could also find your uid just placing the mouse cursor on your profile avatar ;)

vlan7 · 742 weeks and 5 days ago

Only works if you have the "Public Search Results" checkbox checked, as it apparently makes all this info public. *unchecks box* didn't know it did that. It certainly doesn't imply it's making all that info public. Gee, thanks, Facebook.

Groxx · 742 weeks and 4 days ago

Dear Groxx, This must has been changed on facebook 1-2 days before today, because in my previous tests I checked it with my own uid (that always had "public search results" box unchecked) and it always have worked well. Today I try it one more time and this has changed :) Anyway, as you sign "Facebook" on your post, thanks to you and all Facebook team for changin' this and to not categorize nevermore the friend list as PAI (Public Information Available), as you name it in Facebook privacy terms ;) Oh, thanks for remove this: "when it is viewed by people who are logged in to Facebook. Keep in mind, however, that because Friend List is publicly available, it will be visible to people who are viewing your profile while not logged in." http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=197943902130 Best regards,

vlan7 · 742 weeks and 4 days ago

Online tool to view anyone?s Facebook friends list (hidden or not) based on a user ID: http://mathiasbynens.be/examples/facebook-friends

mathias · 742 weeks and 4 days ago

@vlan7: Groxx is not signing as "Facebook", but rather addressing them in the same manner as "Thanks for the lynx command, vlan7."

dennisw · 742 weeks and 4 days ago

oh! I misunderstood Groxx :$ sorry, I'm not native english.

vlan7 · 742 weeks and 3 days ago

This seems to not work with users who have pages using other locales, eg. ru-ru.facebook.com or es-la.facebook.com also, mathias, your online form has a bug, it always counts and shows Mark Zuckerberg's ID before listing the friends for the ID you choose.

monkeyvegas · 742 weeks and 1 day ago

Is there a way to get only online friends?

RanyAlbeg · 741 weeks ago

When I try this, facebook refuses it because I'm using lynx and, as you said, they only accept well-known user-agents... But I specified Opera as indicated, so I don't see what could be going wrong. Any idea what I should do?

dcurl34hy · 733 weeks and 3 days ago

I keep getting an error message when I try to run this. I am a total newbie and trying to learn here. I get "__a is not recognized as an internal etc.." What am I doing wrong?

RLCowboy · 726 weeks and 6 days ago

Try this: wget -O - --user-agent='Opera' 'http://www.facebook.com/ajax/typeahead_friends.php?u=7&__a=1' |gawk -F'\"t\":\"' -v RS='\",' 'RT{print $NF}' |grep -v '\"n\":\"' |cut -d, -f2 Regards,

vlan7 · 719 weeks and 5 days ago

im a newbie how can i use this??

angel76 · 714 weeks and 1 day ago

Vlan7, I keep getting the same mssage as RLCowboy along the lines of "__a is not recognized as an internal..."! I tried typing in just the facebook ajax typeahead address alone, but I only get something about 0 out of 0. Do you have a different command that works? Any other ways I could try your original command differently using wget? I really want this to work! Please help, Vlan7! Thank you!

toulseu · 708 weeks and 6 days ago

@DrAzraelTod: to get a number ID just try http://graph.facebook.com/USERNAME Now, most of fb users have a username and fb doesn't show their ID... And, regarding this link: is not showing hidden friends anymore :(

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