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All your prospects need is love!

I remember being a superstar because a lot of people liked my posts. Nothing is more rewarding! If you love me, I'll love you in return 😍
Sincerely — Your sweet prospect

Warm up your Facebook prospects before talking to them

If you want to warm up a prospect on Facebook, you'll have to like their posts. Start with a list of Facebook users and be ready to like their last posts. How many? It depends on how much love you want to spread!

What will you need? ⚙️

Session cookies c_user and xs: Your c_user and xs session cookies from Facebook.
Spreadsheet URL: The link of a Google Spreadsheet (or CSV) with Facebook profiles URLs in it, OR the direct link of a Facebook profile.
Number of likes to send per profile: The number of likes the API will send, starting by the most recent posts that are still unliked.
Number of posts to load per profile: The number of posts the API will load before trying to like the ones that are still unliked.
Number of profiles to process: The number of profiles you want to process per launch. If left empty, the API will process every profile from your list.

(You already have all that? Click straight away on "Use this API")

What you need to do.

1. Create an account on Phantombuster.com 💻

If you haven't already, create a FREE account on Phantombuster. Our service will browse the web for you. It’s a website automator which runs in the cloud. Once done we'll follow up.

2. Use this API on your account.👌

We cooked up in our lab a script with first-class attention.
Now that you're connected to Phantombuster, Click on the following button (it will open a new tab).

3. Click on Configure me!

You'll now see the 3 configuration dots blinking. Click on them.

4. Facebook authentication 🔑

Because the script will manipulate Facebook for you, it needs to be logged on your Facebook account. For that you just need to copy paste two session cookies in the script argument:

Using Chrome, go to your Facebook homepage and open the inspector
→ Right click anywhere on the page and select “Inspect”
→ CMD+OPT+i on macOS
or
→ F12 or CTRL+MAJ+i on Windows
Locate the “Application” tab

Select “Cookies” > “http://www.facebook.com” on the left menu.

Locate the “c_user” cookie.

Copy what’s under “Value” (Double click on it then Ctrl+C) and paste it into your script Argument)
Do the same for the “xs” cookie.

// How to access your cookies with Firefox and Safari//

5. Add a Google Spreadsheet 📑

Below your session cookies you’ll find Spreadsheet URL.

Add in the Spreadsheet URL textbox the link of a Google spreadsheet with this same format (Share option must be OPEN).

Your spreadsheet should contain a list of Facebook profile URLs (one link per row).

You can specify the name of the column that contains the profile links. Simply enter the column name in the next text field.
You can also enter a single Facebook profile URL directly in the field.

⚙️️Repetition setup ⚙️

Now that your API is ready, you have to customize it to make it work repetitively:

To do so, simply hit the “Settings” button to define when your API is launched.

Then, select a frequency:

Now that this is set, click 💾 Save at the bottom of the page.

There you go, the scraping will be made for you without you doing anything!

Click on Launch & Enjoy!

It’s done! All that is left to do is to click on "launch" to try your script!

Developers

Like all APIs on Phantombuster, this API comes with an HTTP endpoint. Launch it from your computer, app or server with a simple HTTP request and get its result as JSON. Click Use this API above to create your new endpoint.

Clone this API

The script below is all that's required to make the API work. If you're a developer, click the button to clone the code into a new Custom API Agent in your Phantombuster account. This operation will allow you to customize the API to your exact needs. This will also create a custom HTTP endpoint.

// Phantombuster configuration { "phantombuster command: nodejs" "phantombuster package: 5" "phantombuster dependencies: lib-StoreUtilities.js, lib-Facebook.js" const url = require("url") const Buster = require("phantombuster") const buster = new Buster() const Nick = require("nickjs") const nick = new Nick({ loadImages: false, printPageErrors: false, printResourceErrors: false, printNavigation: false, printAborts: false, debug: false, }) const StoreUtilities = require("./lib-StoreUtilities") const utils = new StoreUtilities(nick, buster) const Facebook = require("./lib-Facebook") const facebook = new Facebook(nick, buster, utils) let rateLimited // } const getProfilesToLike = (data, numberOfProfilesPerLaunch) => { const maxLength = data.length if (maxLength === 0) { utils.log("Input is empty OR we already liked tweets for all profiles provided in input.", "warning") nick.exit() } return data.slice(0, Math.min(numberOfProfilesPerLaunch, maxLength)) // return the first elements } // clicking function const clickAllPosts = (arg, cb) => { const allPosts = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(".userContentWrapper a")).filter(el => el.getAttribute("data-testid") === "fb-ufi-likelink" || el.getAttribute("data-testid") === "fb-ufi-unlikelink").slice(0, arg.postLimit) let postToLike = allPosts.filter(el => el.getAttribute("data-testid") === "fb-ufi-likelink") postToLike = postToLike.slice(0, arg.likesCountPerProfile) for (let i = 0; i < postToLike.length; i++) { setTimeout(function timer(){ postToLike[i].click() }, i * 2000 + 1000 * Math.random()) } setTimeout(function wait(){ cb(null, null) } , (1 + postToLike.length) * 2000) } // check if facebook has blocked like action const isBlocked = (arg, cb) => { const block = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll("ul > li > a")).filter(el => el.href.includes("/help/contact/")).length cb(null, block) } // get the name of visited profile const getName = (arg, cb) => { let name if (document.querySelector("#fb-timeline-cover-name")) { name = document.querySelector("#fb-timeline-cover-name").textContent } cb(null, name) } // get current number of liked posts on the page up to postLimit const getLikeCount = (arg, cb) => { // cb(null, Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(".userContentWrapper a")).filter(el => el.getAttribute("data-testid") === "fb-ufi-unlikelink").length) cb(null, Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(".userContentWrapper a")).filter(el => el.getAttribute("data-testid") === "fb-ufi-unlikelink" || el.getAttribute("data-testid") === "fb-ufi-likelink").slice(0, arg.postLimit).filter(el => el.getAttribute("data-testid") === "fb-ufi-unlikelink").length) } // get current number of posts loaded on the page, up to postLimit const getPostCount = (arg, cb) => { const allPosts = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(".userContentWrapper a")).filter(el => el.getAttribute("data-testid") === "fb-ufi-likelink" || el.getAttribute("data-testid") === "fb-ufi-unlikelink").slice(0, arg.postLimit) // const unlikedPosts = allPosts.filter(el => el.getAttribute("data-testid") === "fb-ufi-likelink") cb(null, allPosts.length) } // get current number of unliked posts loaded on the page, up to postLimit const getUnlikePostCount = (arg, cb) => { const allPosts = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(".userContentWrapper a")).filter(el => el.getAttribute("data-testid") === "fb-ufi-likelink" || el.getAttribute("data-testid") === "fb-ufi-unlikelink").slice(0, arg.postLimit) const unlikedPosts = allPosts.filter(el => el.getAttribute("data-testid") === "fb-ufi-likelink") cb(null, unlikedPosts.length) } // handling loading and clicking const loadProfileAndLike = async (tab, profile, likesCountPerProfile, postLimit) => { let name = "unknown" let totalLikedCount = "unknown" const url = isUrl(profile) ? profile : `https://facebook.com/${profile}` try { const [httpCode] = await tab.open(url) if (httpCode === 404) { throw `Cannot open the URL: ${url}` } try { await tab.waitUntilVisible(".userContentWrapper", 7500) } catch (err) { utils.log(`Cannot open profile ${url}, or no recent posts found.`, "warning") return { profileUrl: url, likeCount: 0, error: "Couldn't open profile or no recent posts found" } } try { name = await tab.evaluate(getName) utils.log(`Opened profile of ${name}.`, "done") } catch (err) { utils.log("Couldn't access profile name!", "error") } let lastDate = new Date() let postCount = 0 let newPostCount do { newPostCount = await tab.evaluate(getPostCount, { postLimit }) if (newPostCount > postCount) { postCount = newPostCount lastDate = new Date() utils.log(`Last ${postCount} posts loaded.`, "loading") } await tab.scrollToBottom() await tab.wait(1000) if (new Date() - lastDate > 15000) { utils.log("No new post to load.", "warning") break } } while (postCount < postLimit) let alreadyLikedCount = await tab.evaluate(getLikeCount, { postLimit }) const unlikedPostCount = await tab.evaluate(getUnlikePostCount, { postLimit }) utils.log(`Over last ${newPostCount} posts, already ${alreadyLikedCount} liked, ${unlikedPostCount} still unliked.`, "done") let newLikedCount = 0 if (unlikedPostCount) { await tab.evaluate(clickAllPosts, { likesCountPerProfile, postLimit }) await tab.wait(2000) if (await tab.evaluate(isBlocked)) { utils.log("Blocked by Facebook because of too many Like attempts, you should try later.", "warning") rateLimited = true } totalLikedCount = await tab.evaluate(getLikeCount, { postLimit }) newLikedCount = totalLikedCount - alreadyLikedCount } if (newLikedCount) { utils.log(`${newLikedCount} new post${newLikedCount > 1 ? "s have" : " has"} been liked.`, "done") } else { utils.log("No new post liked this time.", "done") } } catch (err) { utils.log(`Error in the page: ${err}`, "error") } const timestamp = (new Date()).toISOString() return { profileUrl: url, totalLikes: totalLikedCount, name, timestamp } } /** * @description Tiny function used to check if a given string represents an URL * @param {String} target * @return { Boolean } true if target represents an URL otherwise false */ const isUrl = target => url.parse(target).hostname !== null /** * @description Tiny function used tio check if a given string represents a Facebook URL * @param { String } target * @return { Boolean } true if target represents an Facebook URL otherwise false */ const isFacebookUrl = target => { return url.parse(target).hostname === "www.facebook.com" || url.parse(target).hostname === "mobile.facebook.com" } /** * @description Main function to launch everything */ ;(async () => { const tab = await nick.newTab() let {sessionCookieCUser, sessionCookieXs, spreadsheetUrl, columnName, queries, likesCountPerProfile, numberOfProfilesPerLaunch, postLimit} = utils.validateArguments() if (spreadsheetUrl) { if (isUrl(spreadsheetUrl)) { if (isFacebookUrl(spreadsheetUrl)) { queries = [ spreadsheetUrl ] } else { queries = await utils.getDataFromCsv(spreadsheetUrl, columnName) } } else { queries = spreadsheetUrl } } if (typeof queries === "string") { queries = [ queries ] } if (!numberOfProfilesPerLaunch) { numberOfProfilesPerLaunch = queries.length } if (!postLimit) { postLimit = 10 } let result = [] queries = queries.filter(str => str) // removing empty lines queries = getProfilesToLike(queries, numberOfProfilesPerLaunch) console.log(`URLs to process: ${JSON.stringify(queries, null, 4)}`) await facebook.login(tab, sessionCookieCUser, sessionCookieXs) for (const profile of queries) { const timeLeft = await utils.checkTimeLeft() if (!timeLeft.timeLeft) { utils.log(`Scraping stopped: ${timeLeft.message}`, "warning") break } try { utils.log(`Loading profile for ${profile}`, "loading") result.push(await loadProfileAndLike(tab, profile, likesCountPerProfile, postLimit)) if (rateLimited) { break } } catch (err) { utils.log(`Cannot like ${profile} due to: ${err.message || err}`, "error") } } await utils.saveResults(result, result) nick.exit() })() .catch(err => { utils.log(err.message || err, "error") nick.exit(1) })

Contribute on GitHub

Feeling adventurous? Unsatisfied with the current state of this API? Send us pull requests on GitHub to improve the API store! The script is here and you might be interested in reading our documentation here