facebook-archive-scrapper

Facebook (fb) Archive Scrapper. Convert your facebook data to JSON. Helps scrapping your downloaded FB Archive data (zip) and spits out a JSON file with a stunning User Interface.

Note: This is not Facebook website scrapper. Its Facebook Archive Scrapper.

Setting things up :

1. Clone the repo.

2. Login to Facebook in Desktop.

3. Under options choose settings.

4. Choose General tab on the left and click "Download a copy"

5. You will be asked to enter your password again.

6. After entering your password, your redirected to the below screen. Click "Download your information"

7. Request My Download dialog, click "Start my Archive"

8. Depending upon the Facebook data it may take ~30 mins to 1 hour. Once your Archive is ready you will be notified. Click on the notification.

9. On cliking You will be redirected to "Download Archive" screen. Click "Download Archive"

10. After download, unzip it and paste it inside profiles folder. I already have a sample FB Archived profile for you.

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Running the Scrapper :

Open your terminal on root folder of the project.

1. npm install
2. npm run scrap-n-display

After running this you would see the progress of scrapping each profiles in terminal.

Once done the site is up and running at http://127.0.0.1:8888

Output :

JSON output will be generated in master.json and gender.json under root folder.

Todos :

• Move angular js/css code to node_modules
• Tutorials in readme