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Facebook holds an enormous amount of personal information, and even with tighter privacy defaults a great deal remains publicly visible. Tools in this category help you search profiles and pages, resolve numeric user IDs, analyze public friend lists and page engagement, and surface activity patterns. They are widely used for people investigations, verifying identities, and understanding how individuals and communities are connected on the platform.
Because Facebook actively limits automated access, effective research often blends specialized tools with careful manual review. Choose utilities that work with public data, and be aware that many older scrapers break as the platform changes. Profiles can be cloned or impersonated, so confirm identity through several independent signals rather than a name and photo alone. When a profile picture is the main clue, a reverse face search can show whether that same face is used under other names. For a fuller identity picture, combine these tools with FaceSeek's reverse face search and stay within Facebook's terms and privacy law.
Tool for scraping large Facebook friend lists without being rate-limited.
Use Facebook to track your friends’ sleeping habits.
To find your Facebook personal numeric ID for facebook graph API operations, fb:admins, social plugins.
A large dataset containing 533 million Facebook accounts was made available for download. The data was obtained by exploiting a vulnerability that was, according to Facebook, corrected in August 2019.
Looking for your Facebook profile ID / Group ID / Page ID.
Search by name combined with a city, workplace, school, or mutual friends to narrow results. Email and phone lookups sometimes resolve to accounts, and a known numeric ID always points to one profile. If you only have a photo, a reverse face search can surface matching images and lead you to the associated profile.
If a user has set their friend list to private, it is not meant to be accessible, and attempting to bypass that is both against Facebook's terms and potentially unlawful. You can only work with lists and mutual connections the user has left public. Respect these settings and rely on information the person has chosen to share.
Look for a recent creation date, few friends, copied profile and cover photos, and little original activity. Cloned accounts often reuse a real person's pictures. Running the profile image through a reverse face search can reveal whether it belongs to someone else, a strong indicator of impersonation or a scam.
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