How do you extract friends' birthday and contact information from Facebook?

Question

I'm tired of Facebook trying to get a hold of all my data and then sharing it with everyone. Can someone tell me a method of getting my friends' birthday and contact information out of Facebook so I can finally quit? I've tried the Yahoo import method but that only exports email addresses. I've also tried all applications like "Birthday exporter" etc and they export nothing (literally, their .csv files are empty!).

Answer 1

You can use Greasemonkey to extract your Facebook Phonebook:

1. Install Greasemonkey for Firefox.

2. Follow these instructions to install the script. The script is on Userscripts at http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/43681.

3. Navigate over to http://m.facebook.com/friends.php? (You’ll have to login).

4. Answer yes to the prompt and sit back – the script will move through your phonebook and eventually dump you a CSV of the results.

5. Copy/Paste the CSV wherever you want.

6. Uninstall the Greasemonkey script.

There is also an application named FBExport which is claimed to export your all Facebook data.

Facebook Export uses the Facebook Open Graph protocol to export your Facebook data to an xml file. Facebook Export does not store any data about you. You can then use this xml file to import your data to other services and websites that support the Facebook Export (FBE) format.

Answer 2

There is a Facebook Friend Exporter Chrome extension that can extract your Facebook data

Answer 3

Log-in to Facebook goto

Birthdays > Export Birthdays (bottom of the page)

This will give you a URL, copy the URL and either send this to MS Outlook as an ical or use Thunderbird (with Lightning plug-in to display calenders) to create a new calender and give above URL as location.

Note : if you use any other application that supports ical format, this should work.

Answer 4

Contact information

The "cleanest" way of doing this is by using a Yahoo account because Yahoo has an import mechanism of Facebook contacts (email addresses).

1. Go to the Contacts tab of Yahoo Mail
2. Click Import Contacts button
3. Choose Facebook
4. Click OK in the pop up from Facebook asking "Do you want to share your contacts with Yahoo!"
5. Click Done when it gives you the Congratulations summary
6. (now you can either do an export into a file to then import these contacts to your email account/address book, or stop here if you have sync with Yahoo in place; I'll give instructions on creating the extract)
7. Click on the Actions drop-down menu in the main Contacts screen and choose Export All...
8. Choose the appropriate format of the export from the available options.

Birthdays

1. Go to the Birthdays events page on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/?sk=bd&ap=1
2. At the bottom of the page choose Export birthdays
3. Copy the link from the pop up window (this is the link to the online calendar containing birthdays)
4. Use the link to import/attach the birthday calendar to your calendar application (like Outlook or Google Calendar)