ℹ️ This project was created a long time ago. Since this software uses xPath of different elements of Facebook's web interface and Facebook's web interface has been changed in the meantime, it may no longer work properly. However, anyone interested can run it by simply changing the xPaths in the source code. And we warmly welcome those who are interested in contributing to this project.

Facebook Manager

This is a fancy project which builds an excel file containing a list of all Facebook friends and navigates all friends profile to follow or unfollow them as specified in that excel file.

Specifications

The program can

• Login to Facebook using username and password and save cookies to a file.
• Login to Facebook using the cookie file, stored before.
• Go to friend list page of the user and scroll down until all profiles loaded.
• Scrap all profiles name, id etc. which are available.
• Save Scraped data to an excel file.
• Navigate every profile from the excel file, which Change column has the value yes.
• Click on 'follow' or 'unfollow' button, as specified (If not specified, then 'follow').

Under the resource directory, there is a file named usr_psswd.txt, which have to contain facebook username/email in the first line and password in the second line. Write your Facebook username to the first line and password at the second line in this file. This file is used when logging in for the first time or if cookies are expired. In the src/main/java/com/jenin/FacebookManager/Main.java file there is a variable named firstName which default value is Arafat, change it to your facebook first name, which displayed at the top when you log in to Facebook.

When the program is run, an excel file named Friend_list.xlsx is created at the root of the project directory. The excel file contains 8 columns:

• ID: Numeric ID of a profile.
• UserID: Facebook ID.
• Name: Name of the profile.
• Link: Profile Link.
• Status: Previous follow/unfollow/see_first Status, default value is null (Accepted values are 'Default', 'Unfollow').
• newStatus: Current follow/unfollow/see_first Status, default value is null (Accepted values are 'Default', 'Unfollow').
• Change: It decides whether the new Status have to update or not, the default value is yes.
• TimeStamp: Last update time.

If Friend_list.xlsx file already exists then friend list generating is aborted, the previous file is used to navigate friends profile. You can edit the (Only Status, newStatus, Change column) excel file after generating it. 'newStatus' contains current follow/unfollow status, Status contains status before the last change. For example, if one's profile's current status is unfollowing, then the cell value of newStatus will be 'Unfollow'. If you change newStatus cell value to 'Default' and change cell to yes, then after the program run, the value of Status cell will be 'Unfollow', newStatus will be 'Default' and Change will be 'no'.

In src/main/java/com/jenin/FacebookManager/NavigateFriend.java file there is a variable named bigDelayTime which sets delay time when navigating profiles. Increase it if Facebook blocks your ID for fast browsing.

Technologies used

• Java
  • Apache poi
• Selenium Webdriver
  • Bonigarcia webdrivermanager
  • Headless drivers are used, it can be run in servers, using Jenkins, smoothly.
• Maven

Run Using Maven

Maven run command:

mvn exec:java -Dexec.mainClass="com.jenin.FacebookManager.Main" -Dexec.cleanupDaemonThreads=false

Difficulties

1. When it's browsed very fast, Facebook may block the user.
2. It's not the perfect professional way to do such task, instead of using APIs (It's a fancy project 😀).

Features

1. Login to Facebook.
2. Make a list of friends from Facebook.
3. Write an excel file containing the friend list with details.
4. Follow/unfollow friends from that excel file, as specified.

Plans To-do

1. Make a friend request from a list.
2. Bring See_first option, it's not available now.
3. Make a list of post likers/commenter with details information of the profiles.
4. A robot which can reply with fixed text to the new messages.