(App idea) Facebook contact exporter (theory)

[shadowofdarkness]

As a new Google+ invitee I am having the old trouble of finding my Facebook friends on it. Since FB seems to be fighting access by changing the API and making the info into images, but our phones still get good data when syncing to our contacts.

Could we export the info to a CSV file from whatever database it is in on the phone?
I already tried the built in exporter in the phone app but in only exports the Google contacts.

 

[shadowofdarkness]

After more searching I found that I am not the first to think of this and was able to find a shell script that does what I want. With the limitation that no names get exported just a csv file that lists email and phone numbers.

But that is enough to import and have Google+ search for any matches.

 

[gwabell]

Could you share the script solution that you found? I want to do the same, though not for Google+, I'm just frustrated at Facebook contacts not being properly integrated into my Google contacts and want to have one, definitive contact list (ie Google).

Also if anybody has a solution that includes contact names that would certainly make it easier for auto-merging with existing contacts.

 

[lufc]

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