I want to make a website which extracts data from Facebook, where to start?

[kaf e]

Hi there,

For my project I'm aiming to create a website that pulls data from the users friends Facebook/Twitter statuses

I want the statuses gathered to contain certain words related to my website...

Does anyone know where I need to start?
I appreciate this isn't the easiest of tasks but I've given myself a lot of time and I have experience coding with HTML, php and java

Thanks in advance

[just "JR"]

As you said, it is NOT an easy task.
For both FB and TW, you will have to go to their site, register as an application developer, then enter the "developer's" area.
There, you will get access to their "API" (their program entry that allow you to extract data from their servers).
Thousands of very confusing pages tor ead, and MANY, MANY, trials and error.
Your first hurdle will be to pass the OAuth barrier: getting authorisation from the Network user for you to access their personal data.
This can take you a fair bit of time before you master it (weeks!)
Once you have the OAuth, you can access the APIs.
There, the documentation provide all the types of "cURL" you can make, to find, extract and get various objects from their sites.
Unfortunately, the documentation is NEVER clear, NEVER up-to-date, so, there again, you will have to "suck answers from your thumb"...
Very good luck to you...
Keep in touch, I am doing a similar application.