Hi
How do I capture and download all of the images, text, messages of postings of the individual friends I have on Facebook? I haven't come across anything that just goes beyond grabbing the images.
Programs like Fotobounce and PhotoGrabber will snatch for me all my friend's photos or images, but not the rest of the stuff I see. Sobolsoft may have something, but it's unclear if it does more than photos alone. X1 Social Discovery is another possibility, also unclear to me on how much it captures, but at almost $1000 per year, is way beyond the limit of a normal utility.
I've read the thread on this forum which appears to come closest to this problem
Capturing social networking websites
Discussion thread
http//www.forensicfocus.com/Forums/viewtopic//printertopic=1/t=4843/postdays=0/postorder=asc/start=0/finish_rel=-10000/
Thank you in advance for your help.
– Roy Zider
HTTrack is a great program, and it would do exactly what you are asking.
I tried to get it to work with Facebook, however I could not get it set up right. Because you have to log into Facebook to view other peoples pages, HTTrack requires setting up a proxy. Try as I might, I could not get it to work.
Here is a tutorial, I don't know if it's the same one I used or not.
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Yes, it would be if it worked. But scanning the messages on HTTrack site it seems that it's been a problem for a long time. I suspect that FB has a way to detect a proxy in the stream. I saw earlier today that it requires a browser context. I don't think the proxy will qualify, but I might be wrong.
Its not free, and many of the features are still being developed, but have a look at Cernam Capture and Preserve.
facebook lets you download all of your own personal data if you have access to an account
go to general account settings and its down the bottom "download my data"
i havent done it in a while but what i remeber it downloads all of your albums, wall posts and pictures youre tagged in. im not sure what it gives you these days but its definitely an easy avenue to investigate provided that you have the authority to do so.
jmdharkness
Thank you for the lead on Cernam Capture and Preserve. Here's a link to a blog post on what was evidently under development as of March 2012 this year. It expresses the need from the point of view of an employer to access portions of an employee's Facebook page, and is a very good synopsis of the problem in that context. But it does not appear to me to address the problem directly I am asking about, which is for me to be able to capture and download whatever my friend is presenting to me on their FB page.
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reandomaccess
Yes, I know about the ability of Facebook to wrap up all your site and email it to you. It evidently takes some time to do this, as Facebook may be inundated with requests. It appears to be indiscriminate in any case – sort of like copying your whole 1 GB drive into a single zip file.
I'm not looking to download my own site's pages, but rather those images and postings presented to me by any friend of mine. I'm pretty sure FB's capture does not extend to the images and pages of any of my friends.
– Roy Zider
it doesnt take all that long if i recall
couple days max
hope it helps