Comments on: Backup or Export Your Facebook Account

By: rockdog

rockdog — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:05:34 +0000

Great, Thanks…

By: Matt Metten

Matt Metten — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:49:09 +0000

I have a question in regards to getting all the data from a Fan page, not just from my account. This past year I had a buddy battle with brain cancer so we had set up a Fan page and had a lot of interaction. Unfortunately he passed January 1st of this year and I wanted to try and download all the posts and all the comments from the posts, put them together in some sort of book to give to his wife as a keep-sake but I can’t seem to find an easy way of doing this…I’m relatively tech savvy, but not a hard core developer so get lost pretty quickly, though if you have any tips I would greatly appreciate any direction.

Thanks

Matt

By: Kai Carver

Kai Carver — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:18:33 +0000

This is great stuff. I’d like even more, ideally all content that I post, and all information directly relating to me. So: 1) all my comments, whether on things I posted or things other people posted (I should have a right to access my comments, right?), 2) everything I have Liked, 3) everyplace I am tagged in.

If some of the items or threads have restricted access or have been deleted by others, I should still be able to access my data. You say some information requests could “start raising more questions about the type of information you’re saving”. No doubt there are tricky issues with extracting just your noodles from the big plate of spaghetti that is Facebook, but it would be nice to know how far we can go. I’ve started to realize I can’t find stuff I posted in Facebook some time ago, and that’s really not acceptable.

In case you haven’t seen it already, there’s a recent Wired article comparing “data liberation” on various platforms:
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/02/what-do-we-want-our-data-when-do-we-want-it-now/

By: tips facebook

tips facebook — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:10:04 +0000

I never thought we were on facebook data can be the backup. Thanks for the information

By: theharmonyguy

theharmonyguy — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:57:24 +0000

@Pep: As I mentioned above, in my experience, the range of data that Backupify backs up pales in comparison to this method.

By: Pep Oncios

Pep Oncios — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:55:18 +0000

You can also backup your facebook account with Backupify…

By: Michael Fomkin

Michael Fomkin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:42:37 +0000

Michael Fomkin says wow this is indepth research

By: Evan

Evan — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:57:21 +0000

Just had a little play with the URLs returned by the photos query (#17). Seems there is no actual access control on the images themselves, just the fact that it is a pretty obscure URL.

I tested this using a different browser that has never been logged into Facebook before, and just cut and pasted the URL from the XML.

Not sure how much of a privacy concern this presents. Presumably somebody putting in random variations of URLs could come across a picture or two of yours – either that or the URL is not that obscure and somebody figures out the naming convention.

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By: OzzyGreene

OzzyGreene — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 13:13:51 +0000

Awesome