How to Invite ALL Facebook Friends to a Group, Event or Page

ByJohn P.

Friend John P. on
Facebook!

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:


  1. Go to your Facebook Event, Facebook Group or Facebook page and click “Invite People”.
  2. Once the page has loaded you should see all of your friends, but they are not selected.
  3. At this point, copy and paste the javascript code below into your Web browser’s address bar, then hit “Enter”.
  4. If all goes well, it selects all of your friends!
  5. 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…

Want the checklist for this one?

Subscribers get the step-by-step checklist with every tutorial. Free.

John P.

John P. is a former CEO, former TV Show Host, and the Founder and Wizard behind Texas Metal Works. You can find him on X, Facebook and LinkedIn. Feel free to send shoutouts, insults, and praise.

Other Random Posts!

523 Comments

  1. can anyone help is there a new code or facebook application
    to invite all my friends to a group?

  2. hey…. mr John :) thanks a lot… that works :) kickass … think u good programmer :) nice work… that was great :)

    1. hey boaz… am i right in thinking you have a new code to select all your friends and invite them to a group? the code stopped working last month… do you have a new code that works?

  4. Okay nvm it takes a while to invite everyone….isn’t this illegal tho, cnt u get banned for HACKING facebook? lol

  5. I’m sorry, i used this code and i’m using google chrome but it only invites a MAX of 50 ppl?

  7. I love your code to add all friends to an event. but say I want to requests to eveyone that is a friend of my friend, is that possible.

    Like if i go to a friends page and on the left i see friends and there is a button below that says “see all”

    a pop-up window of my friends friends shows up and beside each name is “add as friend” button.

    is there a way to just add all of them as friends at once?

    Thank you in advance.

  8. i tried to use this, but it wont work anymore.. :( i’ve used the code in the past, but now it wont work… does anyone know a new code, or another way to invite all your friends at once?.. or am i the only one having this issue?

  9. FACEBOOK SUCK

    They love wasting our time!

    Its what they best at.

    IF THEY ACTUALLY WANTED TO HELP US –

    Why would we have to struggle with codes etc,

    they could make one simple button.

    FB=Time wasted. The longer you sit on their site the more money rolls into their pockets.

    FACEBOOK SUCKS!

  10. It still works on Fan Pages but not on groups. I have just tested it on both – I use Google Chrome.

  11. I have a group with more people in it than my own friends. The “invite members to a group event” is no longer working (for at least 2 weeks). Does anyone have a script or an idea for this? I don’t only want to invite my own friends; I need to invite the whole group (I am the administrator). Thanks!

  12. the select all has been disabled, any New Select All for facebook?
    Thanks for the help

  16. I have created some pages in my facebook account and i have send the friend suggestion with this script and its quite working good.. thanks a lot.

  17. if your using internet explorer it only shows so many friends, but if you use flock or firefox it shows all your friends on one page

  19. Hi!
    I used this code often for a while ago. But something has happen, and now it won’t work anymore. I’ve tried your code and this: javascript:fs.select_all();, but it won’t work at all. Why… ?!?!?

  20. So the first script didn’t work for me, but the second on worked like magic! Thanks for posting – MUCH appreciated!

  21. it surely doesn’t work anymore, jsut tried and says error on page, they caught up with you mate…. what a bummer because i could have done with that.

  24. i used the code last night in Chrome & it worked fantastik. It would not work in Firefox, however. I have a question. Now that I’ve sent my invites, is there a javascript code that will allow me to remove all those who have declined the event? I don’t want to remove them one at a time….Please advise! Thank you in advance :)

  25. Hello there..

    I’ve the same common problem with some of the dudes up there..

    Both the long & short javascript, doesn’t worked anymore.
    I use Mozilla FFox 3.6 for it.
    I’hvnt use it in IE nor Chrome..

    If there any revisions, please let us know for it.
    Thank You. d(^^,)

  27. I think the codes do not work anymore… It just won’t select anybody, nor in Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox.

  33. I want to write button script in website. That people push one button and in the same time they invite all friens. But there are several problems. First, that we must push “Suggest to friends” . Who know javasript that it automatical click that button? And second problem is. Who know script that pushes invite button. If you will write this script, we can make small program:
    WE: push button
    COMPUTER: go to facebook group or site -> Click Suggest to frieds -> Select all -> Invite them.

    That would be the best program ever.

    Sorry for my English.

  34. this code no longer works it only does 50 friends at a time please could you create a new one thanks

  35. it doesn’t works. I cheek it . I have 600 + friends . i can’t invited all my friends

  38. javascript:elms=document.getElementById(‘friends’).getElementsByTagName(‘li’);for(var fid in elms){if(typeof elms[fid] === ‘object’){fs.click(elms[fid]);}}

  39. Hi Dude! thanks a mil for this! invited all my friends like 100 times hahaha. it aint easy when you have 1000 firends clicking them all the time !

    Works Perfectly!

  41. Does this code still work? Ive tried it on a few events. Doesn’t seem to be working anymore

  42. Hi guys anyone know if this still works? Its just that non of my event invites have landed and its been 5 days

  44. This one is better and shorter:

    javascript:fs.select_all();

    As opposed to the one shown in the post, this one won´t select those friends who are already fans of the page you are inviting to.

    Cheers!

  47. Facebook changed the way “invite friends” works on a page. When I choose “invite friends” I only see 12 friends at a time. So the script works, 12 friends at a time.

  48. Does this still work? Seems like it pretends to send, then when I look again none of the names are in grey…

  54. I have tried this before on a different group and it only selects the friends on the screen at that time not all the friends on your friends list.

  55. I have tried this, and it seems to be limited to one page of friends, and it seems you have to do this for each page of your friends. So, if you have 1,000 friends, and it shows 20 on each page, you will need to do this 50 times. Is that correct? Is there a way to invite them all?

    Thanks

  59. Today I checked my friends list that I invited using the “invite all friends” code listed above. Originally I invited all 2000. As of today, 3 days later, I have only 175 returns as fans. So, I thought maybe the system had not actually sent an invitation to all 2000 even though it had showed them as selected and the 2000 number appeared in the box. I thought maybe I would go back and send another invitation to those who had not joined as fans yet as possibly they never got the first invitation. Then, as I looked at the friends list, I saw that many of them were grayed out and not selectable, and I could not invite them again. I counted a total of 627 grayed out in the list of 2000. Does this mean that they already accepted the invitation to become fans but the system just has not feed them back to my page yet, where the fan box still shows only 175 fans? Are the remainder of the 627 in a queue somewhere and FB is only sending about 10 back to me each day? This is confusing. If anyone can give me an idea of what might be going on, I’d be very thankful!

  60. This is great! But it must take much longer than 24 hrs for a larger number of invites. I sent invites to 2000, and after 3 days I’ve seen less than 10% return in fans. Each day I get about 10-15 more fans. Is this normal? And this was to a list of friends who would all want to become fans of my page. Any other experiences like this, or suggestions? Thanks!

  65. Works great but wondering if it is still sending to those that have already joined the group? They are grayed out and not able to be selected when you do it manually but with the code it still selects those friends. Just don’t want to be annoying people that are already fans with repeat invites. Does anyone know the answer to this?

  67. did exactly what you said.. word for word, put the code in the web browser when i had the invite friends box up.. and BAM! it took a few seconds, but it worked great, thanks a lot!!

  68. THIS IS VERY EASY TO DO!

    1. go to the invite friends list
    2. in your URL box on the top of the page paste: javascript:elms=document.getElementById(‘friends’).getElementsByTagName(‘li’);for(var fid in elms){if(typeof elms[fid] === ‘object’){fs.click(elms[fid]);}}
    3. click enter
    4. javascript will select EVERY one of your friends. i agree that it is dumb that facebook doesnt automatically do this, but thats why people learn javascript. you can create a code that will enter info into several spots on a webpage. pretty handy! i actually made this into a link on my bookmarks bar on google chrome. so i just click a button and it enters it for me

  70. So I did this, I have over 3000 friends, it highlighted all the friends and sent, but it isn’t showing that it has sent to anyone……..

  71. Make sure you replace the whole url with the javascript – dont just append it. I tried for a long time appending it, and I finally saw a video showing to just replace the whole url.

  72. Worked a charm, saved me clicking like 1000 people, copied and saved! :)

  73. Thanks for this. Quick follow up question: do you know of a way to invite just the friends in a Friends List? I don’t want to invite ALL my friends to something, but the invite list is big enough to where individual hunting and clicking would take a long time.

    thanks!

  75. THANK YOU!!! it didn’t work in Firefox..so i tried it in IE8 – success!! you just saved me a LONG time.

  76. I think it stopped working. I was trying it out again with an “invite friends to event”. Come on facebook stop touching stuff.

  78. If any of you are having problems then use google chrome and it will prolly fix ur problem

  82. So I made a group a while back, like december 2009 – one of those “I need your numbers again cuz my phone died” groups and it still hasn’t sent like 70 of the invites even today. Out of my 590 friends. It said it wouldn’t send all the invites out at once, that it would take a little while, but five months????? Does anyone know what’s with that? Email me please!

  83. Ho provato quasi 20 volte, ma non funziona. Forse non ho fatto qualcosa di scritto? qualcuno può spiegare come installare, facile con le parole, perché io non sono un speacker inglese e per me è più difficile da comprendere tutte le condizioni che devo fare ….aiutatemi x favore…

  85. Thanks for the tutorial but a question perhaps someone can help with?

    Did this yesterday and all were highlighted it has now been 24 hours and only 9 invitations are showing as being sent out out of over 600 people that were ticked using this code.

    How long has it taken other people for them all to show up … don’t want to firstly spend hours ticking everyone and doing it manually and secondly feel like I am spamming people unnecessarily.

  88. Doesn`t seem to work :( It selects all friends for me but when I try to send it, the only result is that the invite page refreshes. Tried safari, firefox and IE with the same results on all.

    Any clue why?

  89. Worked the first time like a charm. I liked it so much, I made it a bookmark in my browser toolbar. Now I just click the “Suggest to Friends” link on a Facebook page, click my bookmark for this JavaScript code (whereupon all are selected) and click the “send invite” button, taking a few seconds what used to be quite tedious and time-consuming.
    Thank you for passing along this tip!

  93. I tried it in 2 different computers using IE and Firefox, it hangs on me and the browser stops responding, is it too many friends maybe coz i tried with an account with fewer friends and it worked,

  95. I’ve done this before and it’s worked fine.
    Oddly enough, the last time I tried to do it I was redirected to THIS page after I hit enter.
    No idea.

  99. I tried almost 20 times but it doesn’t work. Maybe I didn’t do something write? can somebody explain how to install, with easier words, becouse I’m not a english speacker and for me it’s harder to understand all the conditions I have to do….please help me..

  100. Hi Again,

    Thanks for the feedback.

    I just want to check… when you place the code into the search friends but, my list of friends all disappears, it doesnt show any friends highlighted at all…. is this correct??

    Also it doesnt say when i press send invites, your invites have been sent??

    Sorry just really keen to make sure this is working with me and i am not doing something stupid!! lol..

    ive tried this in Chrome and IE 8

    Thanks for your help!!

    1. Hi, I believe you’re supposed to put the code into the URL box (where you type your web address, i.e. http://facebook.com), *not* the search friends box – that way the code accesses the internet in order to work. I’ve only tried it in Firefox but it’s worked well for me. It might take about 15 seconds on a fast internet server for it to select around 500 friends, but then you should be good to go :)

Comments are closed.