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fb-unarchive

Instructions (MacOS)

  1. Request a copy of your data (JSON formatted) from Facebook:
    Screenshot of the request for data
  2. Download the archive from Facebook:
    Screenshot of the available archives
  3. Extract the archive:
    Screenshot of the archive being extracted
    Screenshot of the archive extracted
  4. Download and extract the latest release of fb-unarchive from the releases page. Look for the asset ending in "apple-darwin.tar.gz".
  5. Open the Terminal app and run the following commands to change the current directory to that of the archive ("Downloads/facebook" in this case; yours may have a different name) and run fb-unarchive to actually unpack the archive: 
    cd Downloads/facebook
fb-unarchive -v

By default, fb-unarchive writes the results to a directory named "out" in the current one. The albums are arranged into directories matching their name and the photos and videos within them have their metadata updated to match that which was found in the archive.