Orkut Friends Scraper

This script maybe used to collect minimial information about the folks you have declared to be your friends at Orkut. To use:

  1. Install this in Piggy Bank
  2. Visit Orkut.
  3. Login.
  4. Visit Your friend's page.
  5. Tap the coin.

You may review and edit the Orkut Friends Scraper Script.

Warning: always take great care when working with personal data to assure the privacy of the parties involved.

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Notes

This currently scraps your friend's name, thumbnail image, and email address into a foaf:person instance. For example you might get an item like this: 

<http://www.orkut.com/Profile.aspx?uid=9999999999999999999> a foaf:Person;
  dc:title "Foaf person: John Smith";
  foaf:name "John Smith";
  foaf:mbox <mailto:john@example.org>;
  geo:address """San Francisco,
  CA""" ;
  foaf:depiction <http://images3.orkut.com/images/small/999/9999.jpg> .
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Ideas

  1. Don't grab depiction when the image is "no picture".
  2. Recurse into the friend's profile page and scrape yet more data.
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Formal Semantic Markup

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Attribute values
Creator Ben Hyde  +
Pb:url pattern ^http://www\.orkut\.com/Friends\.aspx$  +
Pb:javascript URL http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Orkut_Friends_Scraper_Script?action=raw  +
Pb:generates http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person  +
Pb:directions Login to Orkut at http://www.orkut.com and visit the friends page at http://www.orkut.com/Friends.aspx  +
Pb:directionsLink http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Orkut_Friends_Scraper  +
Pb:disclaimer This software is provided 'as-is' with no expressed or implied warranty of any kind. Users of this software take all responsibility for the accuracy (or lack thereof) of any results obtained through its use.  +
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