Things like this are what might actually turn the trending #deletefacebook statements into actions. Maybe.<p>While it's nice that 'alternative Facebooks' are gaining visibility, those I don't think will really get people out. Simple tools on the other hand, to give people their data in a usable format, will.<p>Next, perhaps a nice 'export registered groups with Admin and user list,' or 'list of sites I've used Facebook login for,' or, 'export Facebook pack: Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp...
This is an open-source project, in case you don't feel like dropping your zip file in to your browser (even though it does run _in_ your browser):<p><a href="https://github.com/textileio/textile-facebook" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/textileio/textile-facebook</a>
If a social network wants to take over for Facebook, an “import your data from your Facebook export” tool would be a killer growth hack.<p>Also, there’s really no reason Facebook couldn’t organize photos this already. I feel like they make that data dump as obfuscated as possible to discourage you from doing anything useful with it.
About six years ago I wrote about the perils of using Facebook as your primary photo store (among other things) - <a href="http://greenash.net.au/thoughts/2011/10/dont-trust-facebook-with-your-data/" rel="nofollow">http://greenash.net.au/thoughts/2011/10/dont-trust-facebook-...</a> . Sad to see that so few people have followed my advice, that a tool such as this is necessary.
Name conflict warning: There is already a software project named Textile. Here's the homepage: <a href="https://txstyle.org/" rel="nofollow">https://txstyle.org/</a>
After hearing people talk about finding very personal things in their archive like audio recordings, I tried downloading mine. I was almost disappointed to find that it essentially just outputted my public facebook profile. Nothing remotely unusual about the data, but i'm sure there's much more that they wont admit to or hand over.
We also put it on ProductHunt in case any of you want to share with others over there, <a href="https://www.producthunt.com/posts/facebook-gallery-recovery" rel="nofollow">https://www.producthunt.com/posts/facebook-gallery-recovery</a>
I made one a few years ago that support EXIF and correct dates<p><a href="https://github.com/mohsen1/fb-photo-fetch" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mohsen1/fb-photo-fetch</a>
I'm getting all my zip archives with x-zip-compressed MIME type. Any way to convert it to application/zip or make it work with x-zip-compressed?
Wow... So people who have issues with how facebook handles privacy should dump their data in some other third party service? And probably some people will because well... "dumb f<i></i>*s".<p>Well it might actually be all good intentions (probably just read below is all client side readable code) but if non coders use this service it just means they learned nothing.