Archiving Facebook

Last substantive revision: 2015-09-09

Notes on archiving Facebook.

• scrapbook plugin for firefox sometimes has trouble copying some parts of the text (e.g. if you copy a post and its comments, the comments sometimes don’t show up in the archived version)
• Facebook on the Archiveteam wiki
• even Facebook’s built-in content export (1) can only archive one’s own data; (2) does not include comments on posts; (3) does not include stickers and attachments (this is especially annoying if one pasted a link and then deleted the URL but still left the preview, in which case only a blank is present in the archived version)
• potential problems with violating FB’s TOS
• problems with expanding “see more” in comments and posts
• for now, manually expanding everything and saving as a .maff may be the best solution

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