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facebook-online-friend-tracker | ||
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Track the number of online friends you have on Facebook at any given | ||
time! | ||
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Prerequisites | ||
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To be able to use this tool, you will need to point have a Facebook | ||
account, an Excel sheet (``.xlsx``), and a server (or computer) that can | ||
run a cron job / scheduled task. | ||
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Dependencies | ||
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This tool uses `Selenium`_ to scrape the data and `Openpyxl`_ to store | ||
the data in an Excel sheet. | ||
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How to Setup | ||
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1. Install from `pip`_ by running: | ||
``pip install facebook-online-friend-tracker`` | ||
2. Setup a `cron job`_ to run the tool at a certain frequency. (I used | ||
15 minute intervals). | ||
3. The command to run the tool is: | ||
``facebook-online-friend-tracker --user 'example@example.com' --pass 'your_password' --path 'path/to/spreadsheet.xlsx'`` | ||
4. After a certain amount of time, you will be able to analyze the trend | ||
in the Excel sheet you specified. (I waited 2 full weeks before | ||
analyzing the data and finding the best time to post on Facebook.) | ||
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.. _Selenium: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/selenium | ||
.. _Openpyxl: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/openpyxl | ||
.. _pip: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/facebook-online-friend-tracker | ||
.. _cron job: http://askubuntu.com/questions/2368/how-do-i-set-up-a-cron-job |
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