Facebook – How to get the full archive of information on Facebook

You can use Greasemonkey to extract your Facebook Phonebook:

1. Install Greasemonkey for Firefox.

2. Follow these instructions to install the script. The script is on Userscripts at http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/43681.

3. Navigate over to http://m.facebook.com/friends.php? (You’ll have to login).

4. Answer yes to the prompt and sit back – the script will move through your phonebook and eventually dump you a CSV of the results.

5. Copy/Paste the CSV wherever you want.

6. Uninstall the Greasemonkey script.

There is also an application named FBExport which is claimed to export your all Facebook data.

Facebook Export uses the Facebook Open Graph protocol to export your Facebook data to an xml file. Facebook Export does not store any data about you. You can then use this xml file to import your data to other services and websites that support the Facebook Export (FBE) format.

I've tried the feature too (if someone hasn't: here's a tutorial), and my experiences are these:

• Yeah, likes and comments to my statuses etc. are mostly missing from older posts (say, older than mid 2008).

• As for messages, they definitely are there. (Each and every message, it seems, since I joined in Sep 2007.) If you open the index.html on the top level of the zip, it's the last item on the left-hand menu:

My guesstimate is that if old comments etc. are missing, there were technical reasons for not being able to retrieve them all, instead of any change in "policy" or intention. But if messages really are completely missing for you, that does sound strange.