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.
En How to find the Tinder profiles of your Facebook friends with Tinder-Detective, will visualize how an open source tool manages to integrate or use the proprietary services of two powerful how tinder y Facebook, to solve a need that many users have, which is to find those users who are their friends in Facebook and with those who could have an appointment in tinder.
What is Tinder-Detective?
Tinder-Detective is a script developed in python and that allows find the Tinder profiles of your Facebook friends, this is a bit of a strange feature, since the main objective of tinder is to get unknown people to make an appointment and get to know each other. In the same way, there are many people who want to date with their Facebook friends and who can do it easily thanks to the use of Tinder.
How to install Tinder-Detective
To install Python y Pip we must execute 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 must configure the SECRETS.json file, for them we must place our Facebook ID and Facebook Auth token (We can see more about how to obtain our 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 .
Hello, thank you very much, it is a somewhat rare option, but it could be of much use
Could you explain in more detail how to obtain the "Facebook Auth token" or give an example of it?
The same, how is the process to obtain the auth token?
This video explains very well how to obtain the Facebook Auth token https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YczorXIqLM
Can you help me, I understand nothing: C
When I run python3 app.py I get this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "app.py", line 3, in
from flask import Flask, render_template
ImportError: No module named 'flask'
I already tried with pip install Flask and the problem persists ... any suggestions? i am on ubuntu gnome 16.04.
The program gives me an error and although I have followed the steps in the video that has been left in a comment, I am not sure that I have set the Faceboo ID or the auth token correctly. '
The error in question is this:
python3 app.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "app.py", line 9, in
stalker = api.NSASimulator ()
File "/home/pelinux/tinder-detective/api.py", line 42, in init
self._load_fb_auth ()
File "/home/pelinux/tinder-detective/api.py", line 51, in _load_fb_auth
self.fb_auth = json.load (f)
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/json/init.py », line 268, in load
parse_constant = parse_constant, object_pairs_hook = object_pairs_hook, ** kw)
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/json/__init__.py", line 319, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode (s)
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/json/decoder.py", line 339, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode (s, idx = _w (s, 0) .end ())
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/json/decoder.py", line 357, in raw_decode
raise JSONDecodeError ("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)