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I wrote about this a while ago: http://heinrichhartmann.com/blog/2017/12/31/Quitting-Facebook.html http://heinrichhartmann.com/blog/2017/12/31/Quitting-Faceboo.
by heinrichhartman 8y ago
I wrote about this a while ago: http://heinrichhartmann.com/blog/2017/12/31/Quitting-Facebook.html http://heinrichhartmann.com/blog/2017/12/31/Quitting-Faceboo...
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Problem with the facebook exporter are:
- All comments are missing. Even the ones you wrote yourself!
- There are no images in the timeline.
- The number of likes and shares is missing on the posts.
Before I delete my account, I wanted to have a more decent backup of my timeline. I looked into printing out the timeline, exporting it as pdf, full-page screenshots, massaging the DOM/HTML. I could get none of this working, with acceptable effort.
Eventually I went throught the whole timeline (100s of posts!) and screenshotted each one individually. To make this process a little less tedious I changed the OSX keyboard shortcut for full page scrrenshot to F1, so I could use the following combo:
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- motdiem 8y agoScreenshotting is one method that is surprisingly popular in the wild - It makes me a bit sad that so much state/metadata is lost when screenshotting, but it may prove the most efficient method going forward. I wonder if it'll be easier with DOM screenshot tools now available in major browers, so you can easily screenshot "just a post"