Using FB Face Recognition on Google Drive Pictures

How many times have you had to go through your albums to find pics of (or with) a specific friend? Do you remember those nights when you wanted to put together a quick collage before a friend's birthday but did not have the motivation to sort through your countless pics?

Well, I created this project to solve this real millennial problem. Please note that running the script can take considerable amount of time for a large collection of pictures. However, you do not have to wait until all pics have been "classified." Interrupt the program (typically by Ctrl + C) whenever you wish.

Setup

Following are the steps needed to run the app:

• Turn on the Drive API by completing Step 1 here. Your directory should have the client_secret.json file.
• Install dependencies using

  $ pip install -r requirements.txt
  

• Create a Facebook config file fb.json
  • Go to Graph API Explorer and generate an access token with publish_actions, user_friends, user_photos, and user_posts permissions.
  • Go to your Facebook profile
  • Press F12 or right-click and choose Inspect to open Chrome Dev Tools
  • Head over to Network tab. Upload a picture and click on any ?dpr endpoint in the Network tab (use filtering).
  • Scroll down to Request Header and copy the entire cookie string
  • Scroll down to Form Data and copy the fb_dtsg string
  • Your fb.json should be in the following format

    {
      "access_token": ACCESS_TOKEN,
      "cookie": COOKIE_STRING,
      "fb_dtsg": FB_DTSG_STRING
    }
    

• Run app using

  $ python drive.py
  

Thanks

A special shout-out to samj1912 for creating fbrecog to provide a way to use Facebook's Face Recognition algorithm.

Contributing

Please feel free to contact Yash Mittal or create a pull request. I am sure there's lots to improve.