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Does anyone know of a downloader that works for private Facebook Groups? I'm a member of some local history groups and the material posted is amazing. I'd like
by pbowyer 6y ago
Does anyone know of a downloader that works for private Facebook Groups? I'm a member of some local history groups and the material posted is amazing. I'd like to refer to it in the future, likely long after the posters are gone. I can't rely on Facebook being around then.
Copying and pasting into a personal archive is slow when you want to capture everything (posts and comments) since you don't know which history you'll want to refer to in the future.
- BugWatch 6y agoI don't know of any solutions, but would like to add that I am interested in one as well.
- RamRodification 6y agoThere are browser extensions that simply lets you save all (or some selection of) images that load on a website. Maybe that's good enough if you can't find one that has proper support for Facebook groups. I imagine you could quite quickly just click through the material and save it. Won't work for text or metadata like descriptions/titles I guess...
- blt 6y agoScraping images is not enough. There's still pagination to deal with. It's also important to scrape the post text and comments.
- toomuchtodo 6y agoMind if I reach out to you via your contact info? I can get this into the Internet Archive.
- blt 6y agoFacebook actively wants to make this hard. I hope you figure out a way. If so, please post to HN. I think many Facebook group users and admins would be interested.