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Facebook API

[AndrewMacPherson]

It is possible to build a transform that integrates with the facebook API using the FSQL language, see the following links:

http://developers.facebook.com/get_started.php -- getting started, usual info
http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/FQL -- Facebook Query Language
http://svn.facebook.com/svnroot/platform/clients/packages/facebook-platform.tar.gz -- facebook PHP lib

Definitely want to check out the FQL Tables for your queries:
http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/FQL_Tables

And probably the user table specifically to pull user information:
http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/User_%28FQL%29



You can call an FQL query like remotely like this(in php here):
$result = $facebook->api_client->fql_query($query);

Basically you need to register an application, get the application and secret key and then you can do something like this:

<?php

// the facebook client library
include_once './php/facebook.php';

// some basic library functions
#include_once 'lib.php';
$API_KEY = 'YOUR_API_KEY_GOES_HERE';
$SECRET_KEY = 'YOUR_SECRET_KEY_HERE';
$facebook = new Facebook($API_KEY, $SECRET_KEY);
$user_details = $facebook->api_client->fql_query("SELECT uid,first_name,last_name,name,pic,timezone,sex,hometown_location,significant_other_id,relationship_status,current_location,proxied_email,profile_url,username,website,is_blocked FROM user WHERE name='<full name here>'");

print_r($user_details);

[AndrewMacPherson]

Some things that suck:

* Cant search via email address like you can in the web app (although i havent been through it all, so if you have an idea let me know!)
* Probably against Terms of Use

[dclemens]

Andrew,
In the new version of Maltego did you guys use the FB API , server side or client side scripts?

-Thanks,
Daniel

[AndrewMacPherson]

Hi Dan,

The demo at BHEU used some scraping ( of the mobile sites ) as well as the server side FB API from here ( http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/API with FQL - http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Fql.query )

-AM

[toprngr]

Yes, I think it is possible as the language is quite familiar and similar too. Just that the problem is that I am not sure whether the system, accepts the language, as far as I know, it uses the same concept as any other languages as well and mainly Facebook uses Ajax. I am not very sure about the usability but there is one thing I can make sure of. You can download examples or templates from the web, it is readily available.