I'm admin of several large political pages. Because of this, my profile chronically suffers report-attacks (i.e.; enough number of people falsely report my profile) and make it suspended. This happens in about every six months. Facebook almost always ignores my appeals even if I send my identity paper to them, so it is no use contacting them for a fix. When this happens I lose hundreds of my friends, and it is very cumbersome to remember all of them and add them back.
I want to export a back up of my friend list (in HTML format with their names and hyperlinks to their profiles), so I can add them back by looking at that list.
I know that Facebook has an internal feature that allows you to download your data. I don't prefer using it, because it usually doesn't return back (I tried it several times, I could only get my data once). And if it lets me download my data, it gives a large bulk of messy data which is not I am looking for.
Is there any tool (maybe a userscript or browser extension) for backing up my friend list in Facebook?
Best Answer
This Facebook app did it for me.
Friend List Exporter https://apps.facebook.com/friendlistexporter
You can export it into different formats too. - Download a basic textual list of your friends. - Download a basic textual list of your friends with profile links. - Download an html list of your friends with profile links and profile pictures. - Download a spreadsheet (csv) of your friends with ID numbers, profile links, and profile picture links.