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Download all your personal images + tagged images from Facebook with Selenium

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WebscrapingFacebook

Download all your personal images + tagged images from Facebook with Selenium

Please click on the image to watch the time lapse on YouTube
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Why?
Facebook provides an easy tool to save all your information, including
photos, from your profile - straight to your computer.
The only issue is - it only saves YOUR photos, but none of the photos you
were tagged in, hosted on other peoples' profile.
My beautiful Facebook scraper will extract both - your personal photos,
as well as the photos you were tagged in.

Just please adjust the URL inside the code to match the URL of your
own profile/username ("goldie.may.750" will direct you to my empty account)


Another thing to keep in mind - it's not the first time I'm building this scraper,
and it seems that Facebook is dynamically adjusting its' own code to prevent
scrapers like this from working properly. My last scraper became obsolete 2 days
(2 DAYS!!!) after I created it and downloaded 650+ photos from my personal account.
In case their code changes again, please keep in mind that you might need to adjust
one or two lines to accomodate whatever they changed.

Good luck!

Watch on Youtube:
https://youtu.be/SsXcyoevkV0

Need some extra info?
Checkout my article on Web Scraping Instagram with Selenium:
https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/web-scraping-instagram-with-selenium-b6b1f27b885

Or checkut my Youtube Channel for more useful projects:
https://www.youtube.com/PythonSimplified