FB_tagged_photos_downloader

What

I want to close my FB account and save all the photos I'm tagged. Not only mines

Problem

FB, in export data, don't save these images. Only the one that you own.

How to do it

Download photos and videos you're tagged in on Facebook Code developed starting from this thread

Setup On Linux

This requires Python 3.

1. Make sure you have curl (Linux and Mac likely already have it)
2. mkdir photos videos in the same directory as the script
3. pip3 install selenium
4. Download the ChromeDriver executable and put it somewhere in your PATH
5. Set FB_USER_ID and CHROME_PROFILE_PATH in helpers.py
6. Set CONTAINER_SELECTOR (see below)

CONTAINER_SELECTOR

The photo downloader relies on a particular class that is likely to change over time because it's auto-generated by FB's frontend build process. It was .atb when I wrote this but it'll probably change all the time. You'll have to dig into the source of the photo page to figure out what the right class is.

Running it

python3 tagged_photos.py or python3 tagged_videos.py

Improve TODO

Parallelize download. Not know maybe using Celery+Radis.