Out of curiosity, is this a violation of Facebook's terms of use?

bshep · on May 17, 2010

IANAL, but it's not a facebook app so it should not need to follow Facebook TOS.

There might be trademark or other issues though. I'm glad it's opensource ( in case they get a take down notice ).

theycallmemorty · on May 17, 2010

I just figured they wouldn't appreciate it because it 'harvests' data from facebook... in the same way they didn't like that firefox extension that converted the email address images into plain text.

bshep · on May 17, 2010

I can see it going either way.

If they hate it, I'm sure they'll try to block the script somehow. Either by changing stuff on the page or by threatening legal action.

If they love it (they might see it as a way to re-gain the trust of their user...), they might integrate it into their page.

Either way, as I said previously, I'm glad it's out in the open, that will prevent them from disappearing the project.

catch23 · on May 17, 2010

It's a bookmarklet though, which means it's all client side javascript, which will make it pretty hard to block. It's basically a greasemonkey extension, and if you look at all the GM extensions available on userscripts.org, there are some that do pretty crazy things and are usually updated on the same day the site owner changes something that causes the script to break.