script to parse Facebook page for Harvard Class of 2018 and extract the '20 facts' information and dump it to a JSON file. To use, set up a JavaScript Facebook app and launch these scripts after authentication

fbharvard.js

function executeScript(){
    re = new RegExp("[4][\:|\.|\)|\-][^1-9]"); // yeaaaaaah REGEXs (also the 4 is there because of that 2 truths and a lie thing)
    function findmatches(response){
      console.log("parsing page"); // just for kicks
      flag = true;
      if (response.data.length < 2){ // empty response, sort of
        flag = false;
      }
      if(flag){
        response.data.forEach(function(post){
          if (post.message && (post.message.match(re) != null)){
            posts.push(post);
          }
        });
        FB.api(response.paging.next, findmatches);
      }
      else {
        console.log(posts);
        getPictures(); // get profile pictures for people
      }
    }
    FB.api('/601401026562908/feed/', findmatches);
  }

  function getPictures(){
    counts = posts.length;
    posts.forEach(function(post){
      FB.api("/" + post.from.id + "/?fields=picture.type(square)", function(response){
        post.picture = response.picture.data.url;
        delete post.likes; // gotta keep the data size at least a little reasonable
        delete post.comments;
        delete post.actions;
        delete post.application;
        delete post.id;
        delete post.privacy;
        delete post.type;
        delete post.updated_time;
        counts -= 1;
        if (counts == 0){
          console.log("Done getting pictures!");
          saveOutput();
        }
      });
    });
  }

  function saveOutput(){
    var blob = new Blob([JSON.stringify(posts)], {type: "text/plain;charset=utf-8"});
    saveAs(blob, "harvard.json");
  }

  // Load the SDK asynchronously
  (function(d){
   var js, id = 'facebook-jssdk', ref = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
   if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}
   js = d.createElement('script'); js.id = id; js.async = true;
   js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js";
   ref.parentNode.insertBefore(js, ref);
  }(document));