Facebook Hack: Get Full Names for Everyone on Your List
Posted 09-20-2011 at 10:54 AM by brianhorn
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You want to have a real name for every email address in your email list, right?
We all know this because names dramatically improve performance – only drawback is that your optin rate starts to drop when you include more fields (even just adding a “First Name” field” dropped one of my forms by near 30%). Catch 22.
How cool would it be if by magic you could take a list of raw email adresses and then automatically put a real first name and second name to it?
Enter Facebook.
You may or may not know that you can find Facebook Accounts by searching for an email address. Just type an email address in the search bar at the top of Facebook and it will return the persons full name.
You don’t even need to log in. Great privacy protection, huh?
So, you could go one by one and get first and last names for everyone on your list that has a registered Facebook account.
A super smart programing fella (neek)wrote a script that will automate this for you. You can download it for free here.
Simply upload it to your webserver with a .php extension and put the list with the emails in a file called emails.txt and access the script from your browser.
The script scrapes the real first name and second name for everyone on your list (that also has an account on Facebook) and displays it in your browser.
Then you just copy and paste to a CSV file and upload back to your autoresponder.
I got just a little under a 50% success rate. Not bad for a few minutes of work.
Thought I’d pass it along.
We all know this because names dramatically improve performance – only drawback is that your optin rate starts to drop when you include more fields (even just adding a “First Name” field” dropped one of my forms by near 30%). Catch 22.
How cool would it be if by magic you could take a list of raw email adresses and then automatically put a real first name and second name to it?
Enter Facebook.
You may or may not know that you can find Facebook Accounts by searching for an email address. Just type an email address in the search bar at the top of Facebook and it will return the persons full name.
You don’t even need to log in. Great privacy protection, huh?
So, you could go one by one and get first and last names for everyone on your list that has a registered Facebook account.
A super smart programing fella (neek)wrote a script that will automate this for you. You can download it for free here.
Simply upload it to your webserver with a .php extension and put the list with the emails in a file called emails.txt and access the script from your browser.
The script scrapes the real first name and second name for everyone on your list (that also has an account on Facebook) and displays it in your browser.
Then you just copy and paste to a CSV file and upload back to your autoresponder.
I got just a little under a 50% success rate. Not bad for a few minutes of work.
Thought I’d pass it along.
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