Find Facebook user (url to profile page) by known email address

Question

I have an email address and want to find out if there is a Facebook user linked to this address. If there is, then I want to retrieve the url to this users profile page and

Answer 1

In response to the bug filed here: http://developers.facebook.com/bugs/167188686695750 a Facebook engineer replied:

This is by design, searching for users is intended to be a user to user function only, for use in finding new friends or searching by email to find existing contacts on Facebook. The "scraping" mentioned on StackOverflow is specifically against our Terms of Service https://www.facebook.com/terms.php and in fact the only legitimate way to search for users on Facebook is when you are a user.