AddressBooker & exporting my Facebook Phonebook

Seeing as it's presented as a picture in facebook.

Worked without a hitch.
As a side note, this is what caused me to finally break down and install GreaseMonkey. Congratulations, I guess.

I really hope that someday I can buy you a beer.

My theorem of great software ideas, "if you think of it, it must already exist," is borne out again. FWIW, the vCard export, at least for me, put the whole name into the last name, so when I merged the new stuff with my existing (OS X 10.5) address book, I got entries like "Robert Robert Smith." A small price to pay, though!

Having spent a lot of time in the FB world, this is probably against the Terms of Use. http://www.facebook.com/terms.php

Specifically, the following clauses:
"All content on the Site and available through the Service, including designs, text, graphics, pictures, video, information, applications, software, music, sound and other files, and their selection and arrangement (the "Site Content"), are the proprietary property of the Company, its users or its licensors with all rights reserved. No Site Content may be modified, copied, distributed, framed, reproduced, republished, downloaded, scraped, displayed, posted, transmitted, or sold in any form or by any means, in whole or in part, without the Company's prior written permission, except that the foregoing does not apply to your own User Content (as defined below) that you legally post on the Site."

And
"In addition, you agree not to use the Service or the Site to: ... use automated scripts to collect information from or otherwise interact with the Service or the Site"

On top of the legalese, the spirit of the Facebook Terms of Use is that people should have control over their privacy through FB, no matter where that information resides. Facebook would say, "What if someone changes their privacy preferences so that you're no longer allowed access to their phone number? Or what if they change numbers? Your data will at best be out of date and at worst violate their privacy."

Since Facebook offers no controlled mechanism for accessing phone numbers I think it's a safe bet that they don't want users exporting their friends phone numbers, no matter what.

YMMV, I guess, since Facebook is notoriously inconsistent in enforcing their terms of service.

http://www.facebook.com/mobile/?phonebook

Facebook Scavenger was a Firefox extension that allowedyou to export your friends' contact info, including e-mail addresses: http://www.chrisfinke.com/addons/facebook-scavenger/

Facebook will most certainly send you takedown notice as well.

Thanks for the great hack! I was just looking for a nice way to update information in my contacts list for the G1, and this seems to do the trick (at least for phone numbers). Addresses would be great too. :)

It does look like you are out of your AppEngine URL fetching quota though:

raise self.exception
OverQuotaError: The API call urlfetch.Fetch() required more quota than is available.

Sorry but i speak not very good english but i've a problem with Facebook:
I went into User Script Commands when i was on this page http://www.facebook.com/mobile/?phonebook but after Facebook said :

(look at the image)
http://nsa03.casimages.com/img/2009/01/05/090105060020573077.png

You've managed to do what I've spent months looking for. Thank you!

This app is great! I can finally get the phone numbers of my contacts into a vCard! It would be better if the first/last names were separated though...