facebook-online-friend-tracker

Track the number of online friends you have on Facebook at any given time! Check out my results and conclusions_ after running this script for two weeks!

Prerequisites

All you need to use this script is a Facebook account and a CSV_ file.

Dependencies

This script is built in Python. It uses Selenium and Chromedriver_ to scrape the number of online friends you have on Facebook.

How to Setup

1. Have Python_ installed.
2. Install the script and all dependencies via pip_ by simply running: pip install facebook-online-friend-tracker
3. The command to run the script is: facebook-online-friend-tracker
4. After some time, you will be able to analyze the trend in the collected data. (I waited 2 full weeks before analyzing the data and finding the best time to post on Facebook_.)

.. _results and conclusions: https://blog.optimizely.com/2015/07/08/how-to-find-the-best-time-to-post-on-facebook/ .. _CSV: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values .. _Python: https://www.python.org/ .. _Selenium: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/selenium .. _Chromedriver: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/chromedriver_installer .. _pip: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/facebook-online-friend-tracker .. _best time to post on Facebook: https://blog.optimizely.com/2015/07/08/how-to-find-the-best-time-to-post-on-facebook/