So I’m trying to find a way to ether scrape a Facebook user page’s html (Hoping it updates in real time) or just display it using the Facebook API. My end result will be a themed feed of a users Facebook home page. I don’t want to radically change the theme, or re-code their theme from scratch, I just wanna change the color, maybe add a cool background image on it, and offer it as a sort of easy way to get a Facebook theme (Just visit my site, and select one from a drop-down menu).
Now, I’m only interested in legal ways to do this, as I don’t want to be sued.
Well, if you want it “legal”, then scraping should be out of the question straight away.
Doing it via their API … well, that does not offer enough benefits making up for the drawbacks IMHO, from a user perspective. It would be a very “static” view – whereas on Facebook itself I can easily interact with everything, post, comment, etc.
And copying to much of the Facebook “look & feel” might get you in conflict with their Branding guidelines very quickly.
And, last but not least, if you where to implement it as a user JavaScript or browser extension, you’d collide with the first example here, “Profile Takeover”, https://developers.facebook.com/docs/guides/policy/examples_and_explanations/Prohibited_Functionality/
I’d say: Not really worth it. Not worth the effort, not worth the (potential) trouble.