facebook-emails

Retrieves list of your Facebook friends' emails in the form <username>@facebook.com.

Usage no npm install needed!

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  import facebookEmails from 'https://cdn.skypack.dev/facebook-emails';
</script>

README

UPDATE: As of April 2014, due to a change in the Facebook Graph API, this no longer works. It will only output your friends who have used the Graph API Explorer! For more information, see the second item under "Permissions" here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.0/user/friends

Outputs a list of all your Facebook friend's email addresses in the form [username]@facebook.com, one per line. You can then copy and paste the list into the Bcc field of an email, and each of your friends will receive an individual Facebook message with the contents of the email.

Commands to enter in Terminal on a Mac, after installing node:

npm install -g facebook-emails
facebook-emails myId longRandomThing

In the second command, replace myId with your Facebook user ID, and longRandomThing with the access token (see below).

Access Token

Get an access token by visiting

https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer

(you might need to sign up to be a developer first) and clicking the "Get Access Token" button. No permissions need to be selected.

User ID

Can either be your username, which is found at the end of your profile URL, for example "loren.sandsramshaw" in:

https://www.facebook.com/loren.sandsramshaw

or your numerical ID.

Send Email

Gmail has a daily limit of 500 recipients, so the list must be split up if you have more than 500 Facebook friends:

$ facebook-emails user token > friends
$ split -l 499 friends gmail

This will result in files 'gmailaa', 'gmailab', etc. Once a day (on a Mac):

$ cat gmailaa | pbcopy

In Gmail, using the account to which your Facebook account is tied, compose a message to yourself and paste into the Bcc field.

Import to Google Contacts

$ facebook-emails user token > friends
$ echo 'E-mail 1 - Value' > contacts.csv && cat friends >> contacts.csv

In Google Contacts, select More -> Import and choose contacts.csv