Ok, this might be a dumb question, but is it really technically possible in any way - even a convoluted one, like manually downloading HTML pages from Facebook? - to mass import posts from one’s Facebook into Mastodon or Friendica instead of painstakingly copying them one by one? I’ve got a 10+ year archive to port and it’s a daunting task to go through them…

  • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Manually downloading HTML posts would be more difficult, but it might be possible by parsing the data export you can download from Facebook

    • Chozo@fedia.io
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      13 days ago

      Yeah, I was going to suggest a data export, as this will often give you a handful of files, most importantly would be a CSV containing all your posts. It would probably be relatively easy to automate the process with that file.

    • Oskar@piefed.socialEnglish
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      12 days ago

      The FB export files have everything (your posts, comments, reactions etc) as html files and images/videos.

      Getting it from those files into parts that can be uploaded somewhere else will take some work. Either with programming if OP has knowledge, or copy-paste.