Repurposing your Facebook backup
February 17, 2013 2:37 PM

It's now relatively easy to backup your Facebook account. I'm wondering if there are any apps or scripts that allow one to manipulate that data.

For example, a script that would convert archived status updates into a blog or export photos into a Flickr account.
posted by mecran01 to Computers & Internet (3 answers total) 11 users marked this as a favorite
Hmmm... maybe not exactly what you are looking for, but Wolfram Alpha's Facebook report can give you lots of info on your account (examples).
posted by trialex at 3:21 PM on February 17, 2013


That Wolfram thing is pretty cool, regardless, thanks. I think I need to learn enough Python to manipulate or otherwise parse my FB data.
posted by mecran01 at 3:29 PM on February 17, 2013


Social Safe is a new startup from Gordon Bell that looks like it might be useful, and will intelligently archive twitter and G+. The first sixty days are free. I discovered that the FB backup doesn't even store links that I posted to my status update.
posted by mecran01 at 9:45 AM on July 26, 2013


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