[Air-L] Facebook researchers: how do you get a list of users who like a page?

[Angela Newell]

I am really curious if you asked the question SHOULD I access a list of
users who like a certain page.  If even Facebook views the privacy of their
users and the pages that they like on Facebook as private, perhaps you
should consider your own research ethics. Membership lists typically
receive certain protections under the law--especially in the EU and UK.
While "likes" of a certain page are not necessarily construed as membership
lists, it would set a fascinating legal precedent for someone to try them
as such.

-- 
Angela Newell, Ph.D.
University of Texas at Austin
LBJ School of Public Affairs
amnewell at utexas.edu

On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Andrew Roback <andrew.roback at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am researching NPOs that use Facebook, and I'm trying to compile a
> network of users who like individual NPO FB pages. I have tried to get a
> list of users who like the NPO FB pages using two importers (NodeXL and
> netvizz), but these tools only download user-post networks and do not
> provide a list of all users who like the page (at least I didn't see that
> option).
>
> I recently read that Facebook restricts this option in the API due to
> privacy concerns<
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3546320/how-to-list-facebook-users-who-like-a-page-or-interest
> >,
> and I noticed that the "like" class in
> FQL<http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/like>only
> returns lists for objects like posts, photos, etc.
>
> Does anyone have a tool or method for using the API to get this data?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Andrew
>
> --
> Andrew J. Roback
> Ph.D. Candidate in Technical Communication
> Illinois Institute of Technology
> http://andrewroback.com
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