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qeorge on May 27, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Friends to Gmail

I had the same (incorrect) assumption. Emails would definitely be more useful.

That said, via the Facebook API a user can give your app permission to access their own email, but they (thankfully) cannot give your app permission to access the emails of their friends. I'd guess that's why he wasn't able to include emails in the CSV.

fjabre on May 27, 2011 [–]

Yep. That's the walled garden bit people are pissed off about.

You'd have to create a pretty nasty hack to get around it and you'd probably be shutdown anyway.

reemrevnivek on May 28, 2011 | [–]

I think I recall someone using OCR for this a few years back. They were shut down, as you suspected.

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