facebook will ban you for scraping IDS and using custom audience

Syed Bilal Shah

12 years ago

Anybody ???

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JCorp

12 years ago

Sure... did you read their TOS?

Don't use software to extract people's UID for the sole purpose of advertising to them. If you don't have their permission, it's against their TOS.

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Solvico

12 years ago

Sure in theory they could ban you. Doesn't mean they will though considering the huge amount of people doing it at the moment....

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darkc0de1

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Syed Bilal Shah

is it true? i heard this on FB

I've been using Social Lead Freak to extract user ID's from FB groups and pages my account is still active.

I talked to the support desk of SLF and verified that no customer on their end has been banned from extracting user ID's.

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Solvico

12 years ago

Originally Posted by darkc0de1

I've been using Social Lead Freak to extract user ID's from FB groups and pages my account is still active.

I talked to the support desk of SLF and verified that no customer on their end has been banned from extracting user ID's.

Same here and i've been using it daily with clients campaigns too.

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GilbertoHernandez

12 years ago

By the way, not all the custom audiences are
the same, if you put them all in one basket, then
you're saying FB will ban you just because you're
using, for example, website custom audiences.

And I agree with JCorp, it is against their ToS,
and it is a mixed situation. We all knew this, but
we still use them.

Regarding the ban, as far as I know, the only people
getting banned are the creators of these softwares,
at least that's the case for FB Sniper.

Also, they keep rolling new options for targeting, you can
do above and beyond great with their precise interests,
demographics and behaviours.

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brutecky

12 years ago

Its unlikely that they will ban your account. It is likely that they will just not approve the ad though.

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Websitemaker

12 years ago

non of my FB scrapper software I used no longer works!?
does yours still work?

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evanbang 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Websitemaker

non of my FB scrapper software I used no longer works!?
does yours still work?

I was running with FB Graph Scraper V3 and it no longer works. It looks like those that have integrated compatibility within the FB App API are getting passed the recent changes and those of us that were using third-party chrome plug-ins may have just gotten the boot.
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- Cubanlink 12 years ago
  
  FB Leadjacker is also no longer working on extracting user ids from the graph search.
  
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  anguschkong 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Cubanlink
  
  FB Leadjacker is also no longer working on extracting user ids from the graph search.
  
  yeah...this was the best tool before!!!!
  other tools don't support batch!!!!!
  
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stuanih 11 years ago

Try Social Lead Freak, It's not a scraper, It is in accordance to FB's TOS.
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- forrestsmyth 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by stuanih
  
  Try Social Lead Freak, It's not a scraper, It is in accordance to FB's TOS.
  
  If it's harvesting UID's, doesn't that make it a scraper?
  
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Solvico

12 years ago

Social Lead Freak is still working, just fyi

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tysnowden

12 years ago

Social Lead Freak is not working for me, my extracted userids do not work. I believe Facebook has updated userids.

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Solvico

12 years ago

Originally Posted by tysnowden

Social Lead Freak is not working for me, my extracted userids do not work. I believe Facebook has updated userids.

Mine are working fine.....

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tysnowden

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Solvico

Mine are working fine.....

I am currently using the latest version of SLF, that is 2.5.2, and all the userids I extracted from Facebook pages were all invalid.

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Solvico

12 years ago

Originally Posted by tysnowden

I am currently using the latest version of SLF, that is 2.5.2, and all the userids I extracted from Facebook pages were all invalid.

I've just uploaded a new custom audience that I extracted 10 mins ago, running ads on it right now and its okay.....

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tysnowden

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Solvico

I've just uploaded a new custom audience that I extracted 10 mins ago, running ads on it right now and its okay.....

Hmm doesn't seems that way though. Here is a sample of userids I extracted from one fanpage.
When you type http://facebook.com/profile.php=userid, it shows an invalid page.
When you submit this as custom audience, it gives a high invalidation error.

591951460902660
10152274263303022
10152406818658426
728373337213094
648555635225604
274340662738884

This same error has been recently documented in various threads and remains unresolved since late May.

Comment #45:
http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...-warriors.html

Comment #78:
http://www.warriorforum.com/social-m...working-2.html

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Solvico

12 years ago

Originally Posted by tysnowden

Hmm doesn't seems that way though. Here is a sample of userids I extracted from one page.
When you type http://facebook.com/profile.php=userid, it shows an invalid page.
When you submit this as custom audience, it gives a high invalidation error.

591951460902660
10152274263303022
10152406818658426
728373337213094
648555635225604
274340662738884

This same error has been recently documented in various threads and remains unresolved since late May.

Comment #45:
http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...-warriors.html

Comment #78:
http://www.warriorforum.com/social-m...working-2.html

Seems a bit strange, I haven't heard from anyone else I know about any issues at the moment. Have you contacted the support desk?

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tysnowden 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Solvico

Seems a bit strange, I haven't heard from anyone else I know about any issues at the moment. Have you contacted the support desk?

Yeahh strange, will be waiting reply from support.
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- alvinhy 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by tysnowden
  
  Yeahh strange, will be waiting reply from support.
  
  I am also having this problem
  
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Ghoster

12 years ago

I think it comes down to how much money you are bringing to the table and whether or not you are engaging in other more spammy techniques.

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Rhiannon Beckham

12 years ago

SLF works fine for me..

It seems the biggest slap went to anything that provided graph scraping..
and Facesniper. Facesniper def got the brunt of it because they tried to pass themselves off as being affiliated with FB, by appearance and name.

Does anyone know of a graphscraper that still works, per chance?

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Vickcarty

12 years ago

The TOS surely say that but I have never had any problems with capturing the UID with FB Groups Poster and Facebook Groups Snatcher.

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LimitlessTraffic

12 years ago

Scrapping users using software and programs are definitely against FB's ToS but for a long time they have turned a blind eye.

As of recent, they have been enforcing this and cracking down on all programs that scrape users. It's only a matter of time before ALL programs are shut down.

But as for custom audiences, you can always upload your email list or website custom audiences without any dramas.

Hope that clears things up.

Andy

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pnglifesolutions

12 years ago

yes. matter of time.

start getting familiar with using custom audiences so you are not reliant on scraping alone when the day comes.

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ErinWalsh

12 years ago

It works for people if they don't get caught. However, once they do, the account gets banned.

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12 years ago

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reg0903

11 years ago

Once your account has reached the maximum level of browsing traffic in your activity logs Facebook block your account for malicious activity. Once Facebook locks our account for malicious activity you will ask to verify governments ids for the accounts re-activation.

Well, social lead freak is now working to harvest people Uids, but converting Facebook, emails is not enough, sometimes self not working.

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eastlibra

11 years ago

Hi guys,

I am using social leak freak 2.5.2 to extract uids.

I am not able to create custom audience and I have received errors on high invalidation rate.

Can I know anyone here and still got the same problem ?

Do you get the problem resolved already ? Please advise. Thanks.

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Jarrod

11 years ago

If really worried about this, you could purchase a fiverr gig to scrape the ID's for you. That way it's not your account nor your IP address scraping them.

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WAL08

11 years ago

If purchased UID from fiver are uploaded to your campaign could you get banned or is it just the act of scraping which is not allowed?

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cromagnon

11 years ago

Hi,

if I were fb, I would increase the price of advertising to custom audience, instead of banning. I would onl ban scrapers, which do not use social graph api. The advantage is, that I (as fb) gain control of this business and convertz it into (more) money.

What do you think about this?
Do you have evidence that price of custom audience ads are increasing?

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Max Greenflame

11 years ago

I don't think they'll ban you but your ad may be rejected

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pr0digy 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Max Greenflame

I don't think they'll ban you but your ad may be rejected

Just add a few random user IDs, which lowers of course your CVR but its well worth it, believe me.
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Cloudcandy Sales

11 years ago

If you send any Ad or advertisements to any persons without there permission it would be against the terms of conditions of the FB site....

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longseo

11 years ago

But how facebook can know i scrape IDs?

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Vietnam VA 11 years ago

Originally Posted by longseo

But how facebook can know i scrape IDs?

Yeah, it is also my question. I don't know why I use software of scrapping IDs, I have to sign-in my Facebook?
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cheapprice175

11 years ago

It sounds feasible because they do frown upon scraping their website for information without permission.

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BionicMan40

11 years ago

Sound like email hi-jacking to me! That process shoud be illegal! Might need the internet police
to ban you from the computer for a year! PLEASE DON'T DO IT!

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SEMwinners

11 years ago

if you send any Ad or advertisements to any persons without there permission it would be against the terms of conditions of the FB site....

But after all, ALL ads are ads without FB users consenting to getting them, newsfeed or not.

Stupid of FB to fight this, as at least ads are super targeted and relevant this way, as facesniper was best of its kind [enabled targeting ACTIVE recent users for your kw]- dead now, what a pity.

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reg0903

11 years ago

Yes, that's exactly happened man

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JoelDean

11 years ago

I used my own custom software Facegrundge Equalizer which scrapes groups and UID's and auto posts feature... You need to have dozens of PVA inorder to harvest 100 of thousands of UID's in 3 hours.. autoposting is a breeze...

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unreal

11 years ago

it's against Facebook TOS ,alternatively target your audience using the Power Editor and target an specific fan page or group!

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