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

This is appeared as pretty easy task, as Facebook don't hiding user emails or phones from me. So here is html parsing function on PHP with cURL

/*
    Search Facebook without authorization
    Query
        user name, e-mail, phone, page etc
    Types of search
        all, people, pages, places, groups, apps, events
    Result
        Array with facebook page names ( facebook.com/{page} )
    By      57ar7up
    Date    2016
*/
function facebook_search($query, $type = 'all'){
    $url = 'http://www.facebook.com/search/'.$type.'/?q='.$query;
    $user_agent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/48.0.2564.109 Safari/537.36';

    $c = curl_init();
    curl_setopt_array($c, array(
        CURLOPT_URL             => $url,
        CURLOPT_USERAGENT       => $user_agent,
        CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER  => TRUE,
        CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION  => TRUE,
        CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER  => FALSE
    ));
    $data = curl_exec($c);

    preg_match_all('/href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/(([^\"\/]+)|people\/([^\"]+\/\d+))[\/]?\"/', $data, $matches);
    if($matches[3][0] != FALSE){                // facebook.com/people/name/id
        $pages = array_map(function($el){
            return explode('/', $el)[0];
        }, $matches[3]);
    } else                                      // facebook.com/name
        $pages = $matches[2];
    return array_filter(array_unique($pages));  // Removing duplicates and empty values
}