Facebook Massive Picture Downloader

Download any number of Facebook pictures given a list of their FBIDs.

ℹ️ About

Facebook has a tool that allows you to download all the pictures you have uploaded. However, it does not allow to automatically download other sets of pictures, like, for instance, all the pictures that you've been tagged in. In fact, this can be a hard task. This script tries to make it easier. Nevertheless, it works for any set of pictures uploaded to Facebook that you have access to.

🔢 Quick start

1. 🖼️ Get the FBIDs of the pictures to download

   Facebook assigns a unique identification number ("FBID") to every picture uploaded. You first need to obtain a list of the FBIDs of the pictures you want to download.

   In case you want to download all the pictures you've been tagged in, you can follow these steps.

   Create a fbids.txt file with all the FBIDs, one per line.

2. 🍪 Get your browser cookies

   Facebook, naturally, only allows access to the pictures if you're logged in. Luckily, this can be emulated by sending a Cookie header in the request, usually contained in a cookies.txt file. This file is supposed to contain all the cookies from facebook.com that your browser has saved. To obtain it, you can use a browser extension. I used this one for Firefox.

   First, make sure you log into Facebook with the keep me logged in option checked. Then, export the cookies in a cookies.txt file.

3. ⬇️ Execute the script

   You need to install Deno in order to run the program. There is no need to clone this repository, Deno can run scripts from arbitrary URLs.

   In the folder where the cookies.txt and fbids.txt files are placed, run from a terminal:

   deno run --unstable --allow-net --allow-read --allow-write https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xaviripo/fmpd/main/mod.ts - < fbids.txt

   Each picture will be saved with its FBID followed by ".jpg" as its name in the folder.

❔ Documentation

Coming soon