Get username from page - php

Question

<?php
/* EDIT EMAIL AND PASSWORD */
$EMAIL = "MY EMAIL"; // here email
$PASSWORD = "MY PASS"; // here password
function cURL($url, $header=NULL, $cookie=NULL, $p=NULL)
{
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, $header);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, $header);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIE, $cookie);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
if ($p) {
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $p);
}
$result = curl_exec($ch);
if ($result) {
return $result;
} else {
return curl_error($ch);
}
curl_close($ch);
}
$a = cURL("https://login.facebook.com/login.php?login_attempt=1",true,null,"email=$EMAIL&pass=$PASSWORD");
preg_match('%Set-Cookie: ([^;]+);%',$a,$b);
$c = cURL("https://login.facebook.com/login.php?login_attempt=1",true,$b[1],"email=$EMAIL&pass=$PASSWORD");
preg_match_all('%Set-Cookie: ([^;]+);%',$c,$d);
for($i=0;$i<count($d[0]);$i++)
$cookie.=$d[1][$i].";";
/*
NOW TO JUST OPEN ANOTHER URL EDIT THE FIRST ARGUMENT OF THE FOLLOWING FUNCTION.
TO SEND SOME DATA EDIT THE LAST ARGUMENT.
*/
echo cURL("https://www.facebook.com/search/results.php?q=Funny",null,$cookie,null);
?>
I want to be able to get the usernames on that page.
I can access the page i want to access, i cant get the second step.
I want to get the usernames listed on that page, i don't know where to start.
Can anybody help me out with this ?

Answer 1

Your method of accessing Facebook is against Facebook's Terms of Service. You should use the Facebook Graph API to get this kind of data.