I set up a couple of groups on Facebook – our Wealth Nation group (PLEASE JOIN!) and the Stop the Farmville Madness!!! group – and wanted to invite all my friends, but it would have taken an eternity because for some strange reason Facebook doesn’t allow you to “select all” friends when sending an invite. I mean, they’ll let you do it… but only if you click one at a time! Uugh.
Well anyway I went on a little search and found that you could cheat the Facebook system by inserting a little javascript to make it happen! Here is how to do it:
- Go to your Facebook Event, Facebook Group or Facebook page and click “Invite People”.
- Once the page has loaded you should see all of your friends, but they are not selected.
- At this point, copy and paste the javascript code below into your Web browser’s address bar, then hit “Enter”.
- If all goes well, it selects all of your friends!
- IMPORTANT: NOW YOU MUST WAIT!!! If you have a lot of Facebook friends, you have to leave that window open for a long time so it sends all of the invitations! I have about 1,400 and it took like 15-20 minutes to send all of the invitations. The Invite window will close when its done. So exercise patience!!!!!!!!!!
javascript:elms=document.getElementById('friends').getElementsByTagName('li');for(var fid in elms){if(typeof elms[fid] === 'object'){fs.click(elms[fid]);}}
If that first method doesn’t work for you give this a try:
Right click the “friend box†and open it in a new tab…
Then paste this ==> javascript: fs.select_all()
Finally, there is now a GreaseMonkey script for Firefox to Invite All Facebook Friends if you want to try that as well..
Oh, and by the way, if you found this helpful please tweet it or share it on Facebook to help others find it too. The more people who share it, the more people it helps! It takes some time for all of the Facebook invites to be sent. They go into a queue. So if you saw them all get selected, just be patient. The messages WILL get delivered over the next 24 hours or so.
UPDATE
If none of that is working for you, Michael Quale developed a little Chrome plugin which I personally tested and it did the trick. You can get it on the Chrome browser store here. And here is a little video of it working.
Again, that one is only for Chrome users, but I highly recommend that everyone use Chrome anyway…
Worked for me as well
Actually, it seemed to have worked but my friends didn’t get the invite…???
It does not work :(
Ohhhhh boy!!!!
I am the happiest promoter in Boston right now!!!
Incredible…naming my first born after you!!
-Boston Chris
hahaha. Glad to be of service Chris!
John P.
hello i have the latest version of facebook and im using firefox, but it doesnt seem to be working ive tried ALL of the above scripts any advice?
nice!!! i will pass this on too my face book friends thanks…
It does definitely work if you have Google Chrome!
I just tried to copy the link and it would not copy.
OH MY LORD, the amount of precious time I’ve wasted in the past clicking one-by-one! this was so useful. thanksyou.
worked fine in safari
like it
It works on IE only! I have tried with Firefox and Opera but It wont work – IE is the only one which worked.
it works on Google Chrome too.
Working in safari with me too, So much time saved now!!!
No longer working in firefox, I used IE to do it, but could only select 9 people at a time as they only show 9 people now, then you have to click next page, activate the address bar again click enter again over and over til everyone is selected.
It seems that it works perfecrly in chrome and opera.
Since the invitation form is now split into individual pages of 12 friends only, how do you deal with your script?
As a matter of fact, you know have to run your script in as many pages of 12 friends you have. If you have 1200 friends, the script now needs to be runned 120 times!
Is there a way around this?
I have used it several times now and it works like a charm every time in Chrome!
Question….can I use this for inviting people to Events that I create from my Fan Page. I tried it tonight for the first time and when I hit enter after pasting in the script it just refreshed my Fan Page URL and removed the script from the address bar.
Thanks for any feedback!
hey listen i have account with 4000 friends, i did all what you said, and it selected all 4000 friends then i click invite, does it work even for 4000 ?
very useful for my website’s fan page.. now i got 600 fans… thanks alot.
this is hell good it acctually works and it is soooo easy……..XD
for mafia wars
Firefox 3.5.8 – didnt work, just hung
IE 6.0.2900.xxx – will only select the 9 ppl displayed on Invite page
Google Chrome 4.0.249 – it selected ALL as mentioned… hope it sends out to all =0)
Good tip – THx dude
Hey, thanks for this little trick…Worked like a charm, and saved me heaps of time!!!
Well done!
google chrome works :)
Thanks John, worked like a charm for me in Chrome :)
How can I do that??
OK – that’s a bit of genius. Now if you want to be the biggest Facebook genius on the planet, give us a script for sending Event Invites to all Fans of Pages!
Darren