[Discuss] Facebook backups?

Tom Metro tmetro+blu at gmail.com
Mon Apr 28 03:40:43 EDT 2014


John Abreau wrote:
> Facebook has a mechanism for manually downloading an archive of all your
> account's data...need to be operated
> manually from within a web browser, and won't work from cron.

What's the limitation that prevents it from working from wget?
JavaScript? Unpredictable URL?

WWW::Mechanize might help.
https://metacpan.org/pod/WWW::Mechanize

 -Tom

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