Convert your Facebook friend contacts to CSV

Weird, I've decided to leave FB and was working on doing this an hour ago. I ended up using: <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ficlccidpkaiepnnboobcmafnnfoomga" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ficlccidpkaiepnnbo...</a><p>You can also use this method: <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/12/how-to-mass-export-all-of-your-facebook-friends-private-email-addresses/" rel="nofollow">http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/12/how-to-mass-export-all-of-y...</a><p>but for me it only exported contacts that had their email address visible. "Facebook Friend Exporter" worked better.

wtf.. Why screen scrape Facebook from a bookmarklet, when the Graph API gives you all this and more in JSON.<p><a href="http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/" rel="nofollow">http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/</a>

Just be careful, Facebook monitors for scraping activity and has deleted accounts over this in the past.<p>Would be great if it offered a variable sleep option, to make it a bit less of a dead giveaway.

I just had to do the very same thing, except instead of Facebook, it was a contact list in a proprietary medical office database. Since my programming skills are limited to Basic and Pascal, I just used AutoHotKey and the AutoHotKey Recorder. After a little editing, i.e. adding a test for empty boxes and putting the whole script in a loop, it was working fine. I considered teaching myself Ruby, but I knew it would be much faster to use AutoHotKey. But it's really interesting to see the same process in a proper computer language

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After browsing the source I thought there has to be a better way

Cool stuff. Got a lot of insight from the code.