Social Networks grow and grow more and more, unfortunately for the free software community, there are few 100% free social networks that have had any kind of success, but nevertheless, the most important social platforms are those that use the software the most free, as they mostly use free technology to create their powerful industries.
In How to find your Facebook friends' Tinder profiles with Tinder-Detective, you will see how an open-source tool manages to integrate or use the proprietary services of two powerful companies like Tinder and Facebook, to solve a need that many users have, which is to find those users who are their friends on Facebook and with whom they could have a date on Tinder.
What is Tinder-Detective?
Tinder-Detective is a Python script that allows you to find the Tinder profiles of your Facebook friends . This is a somewhat unusual feature, since Tinder 's main purpose is to connect strangers on dates. However, many people want to date their Facebook friends and can easily do so using Tinder.
How to install Tinder-Detective
To install Python and Pip, we must run the following commands:
sudo apt-get install python python-pip
Must clone the official repository of Tinder-Detective on our computer.
git clone https://github.com/defaultnamehere/tinder-detective.git
We proceed to install Tinder-Detective
cd /tinder-detective
pip install -r requirements.txt
How to set up and use Tinder-Detective
To use Tinder-Detective , we need to configure the SECRETS.json file. To do this, we need to enter our Facebook ID and Facebook Auth token (You can see more about how to get your Facebook Auth token here ).
Once communication with Tinder and Facebook is configured, we must run our script using the following command:
python3 app.py
Next we must select "y" to the message that asks if you really want to look at the Tinder profiles of your real life friends. Otherwise, the application will be closed. If your answer is "y", the application will be available at http: // localhost: 5000 .