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<?php function fetch_fb_fans($fanpage_name, $no_of_retries = 10, $pause = 500000 /* 500ms */){ $ret = array(); // get page info from graph $fanpage_data = json_decode(file_get_contents('http://facebook.com/' . $fanpage_name), true); if(empty($fanpage_data['id'])){ // invalid fanpage name return $ret; } $matches = array(); $url = 'http://www.facebook.com/plugins/fan.php?connections=100&id=' . $fanpage_data['id']; $context = stream_context_create(array('http' => array('header' => 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:22.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/22.0'))); for($a = 0; $a < $no_of_retries; $a++){ $like_html = file_get_contents($url, false, $context); preg_match_all('{href="https?://www\.facebook\.com/([a-zA-Z0-9._-]+)" data-jsid="anchor" target="_blank"}', $like_html, $matches); if(empty($matches[1])){ // failed to fetch any fans - convert returning array, cause it might be not empty return array_keys($ret); }else{ // merge profiles as array keys so they will stay unique $ret = array_merge($ret, array_flip($matches[1])); } // don't get banned as flooder usleep($pause); } return array_keys($ret); } print_r(fetch_fb_fans('ivcrn, 2, 400000)); // prints 73 unique fan names as array