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[DEPRECATED] simple parsing tool to get your data out of a facebook export

7 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 0 stories, 7 comments · first 2018-03-26 · latest 2018-03-27

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  1. We just pushed some changes to fix this. If you want quick access, take a look at the code over at: https://github.com/textileio/textile-facebook . Those fixes will go 'live' later. To get it running on your own system right away, you…
    comment by carsonfarmer · 2018-03-27 · in Show HN: Textile – Return Facebook photo exports back to nicely-named galleries
  2. Ok, this looks like this issue: https://github.com/textileio/textile-facebook/issues/4 We'll try to update this soon!
    comment by carsonfarmer · 2018-03-27 · in Show HN: Textile – Return Facebook photo exports back to nicely-named galleries
  3. Yes this is a known 'issue': https://github.com/textileio/textile-facebook/issues/2 . Unfortunately, some browsers don't like large files being dragged-and-dropped like this. The 'solution' for now seems to be to unzip on your computer,…
    comment by carsonfarmer · 2018-03-27 · in Show HN: Textile – Return Facebook photo exports back to nicely-named galleries
  4. Yes that's right. Also, the code can be inspected here: https://github.com/textileio/textile-facebook . For non-coders, if you are concerned about us using your data (we won't!) you can a) trust us, b) ask someone to check for you, or c)…
    comment by carsonfarmer · 2018-03-27 · in Show HN: Textile – Return Facebook photo exports back to nicely-named galleries
  5. Haha, that would be pretty hypocritical of us! Check out the source to be sure we aren't: https://github.com/textileio/textile-facebook , and if you really want to be sure that's what we're deploying, use your browser's dev tools to…
    comment by carsonfarmer · 2018-03-27 · in Show HN: Textile – Return Facebook photo exports back to nicely-named galleries
  6. For those wanting to run this locally: git clone https://github.com/textileio/textile-facebook cd textile-facebook/ python -m http.server # Python 3.x, or python -m SimpleHTTPServer # Python 2.x
    comment by carsonfarmer · 2018-03-26 · in Show HN: Textile – Return Facebook photo exports back to nicely-named galleries
  7. …feel like dropping your zip file in to your browser (even though it does run _in_ your browser): https://github.com/textileio/textile-facebook
    comment by eddyg · 2018-03-26 · in Show HN: Textile – Return Facebook photo exports back to nicely-named galleries