Facebook Search

facebook-search.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import sys
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bs

try:
    firstname = sys.argv[1]
except IndexError:
    print('Usage: ' + sys.argv[0] + ' firstname lastname')
    sys.exit(1)

try:
    lastname = sys.argv[2]
except IndexError:
    pass

try:
    query_string = 'https://www.facebook.com/public?query=' + firstname + '+' + lastname + '&init=ffs&nomc=0'
except NameError:
    query_string = 'https://www.facebook.com/public?query=' + firstname + '&init=ffs&nomc=0'

r = requests.get(query_string)
content = r.text