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copied!<p>Some additional background material:</p> <p>To solve this problem generally, you'd want to avoid web scraping and other ad-hoc techniques that are specific to one social network. Instead, you will probably want to look into <a href="http://gmpg.org/xfn/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">XHTML Friends Network (XFN)</a> which is a way to use the rel="" attribute of a hyperlink to indicate the relationship between the target of that hyperlink and you. There is also a competing standard called <a href="http://www.foaf-project.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">FOAF</a> which uses <a href="http://www.w3.org/RDF/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">RDF</a>.</p> <p>These <a href="http://www.microformats.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer">microformats</a> have been around for a while, but support for them has grown a great deal just recently. StackOverflow uses "me" in the link on your profile page. WordPress blogs provide an easy way in the editing interface for the blogroll to add these tags. Many social sites use these in links between friends to indicate relationships.</p> <p>Because of this, Google has gotten interested in this, and is starting to mine this data. They have a <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/socialgraph/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Social Graph API</a> that can mine both XFN and FOAF data to do exactly some of the things you want to do. I suggest you start there. The nice thing about Google's API is since they are mining this all over the web, you can widen out your search beyond the specific social network you had in mind.</p>

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