My progress scraping Facebook

Hmmmm. Maybe this is the person who sold those 5 million facebook emails. #BlackhatWorld

Originally Posted by huyvun thanks for that,, so as you can see some records are very detailed ( for example user664477291 ,, the number is their facebook profile id ). I'm sure there is some interesting uses , if I can eventually download enough user profiles ( e.g more than 500million of them). Of course the data is massive, but i've written something a bit like google's bigtable, so it's not really an issue ( just the time it takes to crawl ). I just think its not only unfair, but very dangerous for one company to have access to such data.. Who ever has access to FB's data base, has unimaginable power... I think this data should be open.. Given the scope limiting elements now built into Facebook, the way it only allows certain user interactions, ratios of friends, numbers in groups, numbers of likes. numbers of requests - the way it monitors business pages and fan pages...

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