Reclaim and reuse your Facebook data(givememydata.com)

http://givememydata.com/

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Facebook allows you to do this. There is no need to give a third party application access all of your information.

Click "Account Settings", and then "Download Your Information". Voila. You'll get an email within a few minutes.

https://www.facebook.com/help/?topic=download

To be fair, it appears that this project predates Facebook's launch of the download feature by a few months.

I work for FB, but not on this feature.

roinsh15 anni fa

When you download your information with the FB feature you only get your wall posts and other basic info.

I guess that with this app you can download your group's wall, something I have always desired since the creation of the new groups.

EDIT: I tried to download my group's wall with this app and it's not working.

owenmundy15 anni fa

This app has been online since late 2009. It offers formats that the FB download did/does not (dot file, XML, CSV). It received a lot of attention last year (2010) http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/01/facebook-app-... possibly influencing FB to add the download service. Not sure if they would admit it, but its very possible the idea seeped-in somehow.

I am the developer.

adamfeldman15 anni fa

PHP runs out of memory when I try to export all of my mutual friends to dot or nodebox formats

owenmundy15 anni fa

How many friends?

adamfeldman15 anni fa

~1500

owenmundy15 anni fa

I've been able to test only with mine of course, which is 589. I'm guessing its because of your number. There's a post on Stack Overflow about the troubles I had with that function, looks like I'm not done. Would you be willing to post in the discussions on the app page? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4281210/facebook-mutual-f...

owenmundy15 anni fa

How does one receive notifications of replies to comments in this system?

jwatzman15 anni fa

I'm curious what the point of using this app is after Facebook introduced a feature allowing you to download your entire profile a few months ago. It comes down as a zip file containing a nice, offline-browsable HTML minisite with your wall, pictures, videos, etc.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/06/facebook-now-allows-you-to-...

wicknicks15 anni fa

Can't we get all of the data through open graph API anyways? http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/

dacort15 anni fa

Sadly, no, you can't. Facebook seems to offload older data to systems that are inaccessible to third-parties using the graph API. Their "Download Your Data" feature has access to this tier via async methods.

Reference: http://bugs.developers.facebook.net/show_bug.cgi?id=10576#c7...

Humourisok15 anni fa

Ok FB. You can keep the data. Give me FB options instead. Thanks.

rubypay15 anni fa

This is a third-party application that allows you to export your data. It was not created by Facebook.