Facebook Export Notes

Export your Facebook Notes as Facebook's takeout service doesn't do it for you

Usage

As a Consumer

Install node

Then install this:

npm install --global facebook-export-notes

Then run it, following the prompts:

facebook-export-notes

Notes should go inside ./notes and ./cleaned

As a Developer

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/balupton/facebook-export-notes.git
cd facebook-export-notes

Install dependencies - requires node

npm install

Automatically prepare structure:

node --harmony lib/setup.js

Automatically open facebook window, manually login to facebook then close the window:

node --harmony lib/login.js

Automatically download the URLs of all your notes:

node --harmony lib/urls.js

Automatically use those URLs to download the notes to ./notes:

node --harmony lib/downloader.js

Automatically clean the output of the downloaded notes to ./cleaned:

node --harmony lib/clean.js

All done.