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Show HN: FaceGrab – Grab everyone's Facebook profile image without any login

23 pointsby aaggarwalalmost 10 years ago

4 comments

aaggarwalalmost 10 years ago
Hi, FaceGrab lets you download anyone&#x27;s Facebook full-size profile image from their username or userid without any need for login. It uses Facebook&#x27;s Graph search.<p>This project was a code sprint. I started it when I needed an image set for a machine learning problem. I came across a Facebook graph feature which returns full-size profile images. I thought I could use this feature to programmatically generate a data-set of actual images. I consulted Facebook about the use of this feature as bug, they responded that the profile pictures are public and its not their responsibility.<p>So, I created this to generate a data-set of Facebook profile images. I think it could be useful for developers requiring a big image data-set for image processing or machine learning applications, or maybe more. Any comments are welcome.
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pinewurstalmost 10 years ago
Someone really needs to create a Hot-or-Not clone using these for input, thus bringing Facebook back to its beginnings.<p>World without end, amen.
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developer1almost 10 years ago
And if you want to scrape a list of Facebook usernames to use with this, Facebook makes that easy too: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;directory&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;directory&#x2F;</a><p>It&#x27;s against the ToS to do so, but of course Facebook is willing to expose all that information for anyone willing to break the rules.
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lukevdpalmost 10 years ago
Is there any way of getting the profile photo from an email address instead of username?
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