I Scraped My MySpace Friends. Scrape Yours!

Posted February 9th, 2008, in: Intellectual Property| Semantic Web| Technology

Is there a way to download MySpace Friends? Not officially.I used “O-Community” to scrape my friends out of myspace and I used TextWrangler to turn the file into a series of <a> tags within <li> tags that include the XFN rel=”friend” attribute. I will be looking into how I might publish this information in a more relevant structure/format, probably as SIOC or FOAF data, if I can figure out how to do that.

I wish FaceBook & MySpace allowed you to download a spreadsheet (excel or whatever) of all your contacts and their demographic information like Age, Gender, Location Etc. Some other formats I would like to be able to download my contacts in are RDF/XML, vCard, CSV Etc…

Actually, it is explicitly against MySpace’s and FaceBook’s Terms Of Service to do what I have done here. Scripts and Bots are prohibited. Perhaps this will change some bright beautiful day in the future.

We need to be able to mine the ‘Data of Our Lives,’ including of course the contacts we make through Social Software services. We also need to be able to Back-Up all our Data.

If you would like help scraping your MySpace friends, drop me a line and maybe I can help out.

One Response to “I Scraped My MySpace Friends. Scrape Yours!”

Chicago wrote on February 10th, 2008 1:27 pm :

I also wish they would setup a way to do this as i have close to 5 k friends on myspace. I try to keep my closer friends at the top of my list, but the system they currently use makes it hard to do this.
Do not get me wrong, all of my friends are important, but some that i have more contact with up top would be a godsend.

I Scraped My MySpace Friends. Scrape Yours!

Posted February 9th, 2008, in: Intellectual Property| Semantic Web| Technology

One Response to “I Scraped My MySpace Friends. Scrape Yours!”

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