Facebook – Download all images from Facebook inbox

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Is there any way to download only the pictures from the inbox of my Facebook account? I'm trying to make a collage from my fraternity and everyone has to send me pictures, but I need to download them all to my computer and I don't want to download them all one by one.

Best Answer

No, this isn't possible without programming via the Graph API (programming is out of scope for this site). You will also not find any third parties offering this service as the permission needed for approval requires the following

This permission is granted to apps building a Facebook-branded client on platforms where Facebook is not already available. For example, Android and iOS apps will not be approved for this permission. In addition, Web, Desktop, in-car and TV apps will not be granted this permission.

see https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.3/user/inbox and https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/permissions/v2.3#reference for more info

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Facebook – Stop Facebook from recording chat

You can delete the chat history in your inbox by opening the message/chat history and clicking "Actions | Delete Messages". Then at the bottom, click "Delete All". Confirm your choice, and viola, your chat history is no more.

Alternatively: https://www.facebook.com/help/new/?faq=12886

And also by that help article, it looks like the option to not save chat history is impossible.

Facebook – download chat history

Unfortunately your solutions might be the best ones, although if you are using Chrome, there might be a way to use the Inspect Element dashboard to pull the chat text.

Right-click on the chat window and select Inspect Element. You will see all of the rendered tags from the page, and the chat messages will appear there, all with the class:

<div class="fbChatMessage fsm direction_ltr" data-jsid="message">This is a chat message in the window</div>

To get the entire conversation, look for:

<table class="uiGrid conversationContainer" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" >

Then Right-Click > Copy as HTML - You can then paste the entire chat table into another file and parse it (eg using regex)