Facebook API: Get fans of / people who like a page

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I'd like to get a list of users who like a certain page or a fan of it.

The FB API documentation states that you can only get the count of the fans of a certain page using the social graph, but not a list of the fans.

A discussion here Retrieve Facebook Fan Names suggests that one could use an FQL query like SELECT user_id FROM like WHERE object_id="YOUR PAGE ID" to get the number of people who liked the page, but for the same page, it gives an empty response "{}".

So I was wondering if anyone has an idea if this can be done.

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Technically this FQL query should work, but for some reason Facebook disallows it because of a missing index. Not sure if that is because of policy or they just forgot.

SELECT uid FROM page_fans WHERE page_id="YOUR_PAGE_ID"
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I created small tool called luster for downloading list of "likers" and "followers" of your Facebook page.

After download and unpack archive for your platform you can run it from terminal as

luster fans my-page-name

Where my-page-name is string identifier of your Facebook page.

You will be asked for email and password to your Facebook account. Note that this account need to have one of available page roles. Even Analyst is enough.

After while you should receive output similar to following

TIME,KIND,ID,NAME,LINK
1581665652,Like,111111111,John Doe,https://www.facebook.com/111111111
1581663355,Like,222222222,Kal Peterson,https://www.facebook.com/222222222
1581661970,Follow,333333333,Nikol Kus,https://www.facebook.com/333333333

This tool is based on reading table which can be found in Settings -> People and Other Pages section of your Facebook page.

Be aware that there is some limit up to 7k results from Facebook side. I tested it on two pages with more than 20k of fans and didn't get more then 7k results.

See https://github.com/zladovan/luster for details.

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