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Facebook api – Determining how many people have been added to a facebook group by a single member

I am the admin of a Facebook group and am trying to keep track of how many people each user has added. I cannot seem to nail down how I can easily write a script to:

  1. Determine how many people a User has added.
  2. Echo that to a file in the format $User:$number_of_added_members.

I’ve been made aware I cannot do this with the API, I am banging my head against a wall here. If anyone could at least point me in the right direction it would be much appreciated.

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    Maybe you can work with the site which lists all members and look for the string below the member which says “added by on ” But I’m not sure, how long this stays before it switches to “in the group since”

    Edit
    Use a crawler software like the one in Symfony to traverse the HTML of the page. You will need a PHP CLI for this tool. DOMCrawler from Symfony

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    I just did this…
    actually i am a programmer and did it in the hard way because i needed group by users. I hoped that the graph api at least give me an xml of user with added by in order to make my code read it but it did not so what i did is just to copy the table on the members page and paste it on a txt file and make a python code read it and make a dictionary of user: number_of_users_he_added.
    it was quick but there is a problem that the members page does not give u all the results, its infinity scroll and i have a lot of members.
    u can write a js script that read the dom instead of copy paste or even a chrome extension but still have the problem with the infinity scroll.
    if facebook provide the added by field in their graph it will be great

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