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Re: Show HN: Textile – Return Facebook photo exports back to nicely-named galleries

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Post by andrewxhill »

headsoup wrote: post #10

Things like this are what might actually turn the trending #deletefacebook statements into actions. Maybe. While it's nice that 'alternative Facebooks' are gaining visibility, those I don't think will really get people out. Simple tools on the other hand, to give people their data in a usable format, will. Next, perhaps a nice 'export registered groups with Admin and user list,' or 'list of sites I've used Facebook l…

heck yeah! thanks for the comment. we're down to do nice exports of some of the other data types. we'll look into it for sure.

Re: Show HN: Textile – Return Facebook photo exports back to nicely-named galleries

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Post by carsonfarmer »

headsoup wrote: post #10

Things like this are what might actually turn the trending #deletefacebook statements into actions. Maybe. While it's nice that 'alternative Facebooks' are gaining visibility, those I don't think will really get people out. Simple tools on the other hand, to give people their data in a usable format, will. Next, perhaps a nice 'export registered groups with Admin and user list,' or 'list of sites I've used Facebook l…

"Watch this space" for some of those other tools ;)

Re: Show HN: Textile – Return Facebook photo exports back to nicely-named galleries

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Post by tantalor »

andrewxhill wrote: post #11
ucaetano wrote: post #7

Does it fix Facebook's removal of exif/metadata from images?

Oh no! I saw that FB put the metadata into the html but didn't realize they ALSO removed them from the images. I'll look into what's possible!

You can scrape it from the original photo page. I made an extension that does that:

https://github.com/tantalor/fb-photo-meta

Re: Show HN: Textile – Return Facebook photo exports back to nicely-named galleries

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Post by gavino »

andrewxhill wrote: post #6
sachleen wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That was the first thing I looked for. Cool that it runs in browser instead of uploading all of my data to their server.

If you're into that, check out our core project, https://www.textile.photos/ . The idea is to give you control of all your data (starting with photos) doing backup not on our servers but on a decentralized service called IPFS, so you can maintain control and ownership of your data, always.

That link doesn't work for me, but this one does https://www.textile.photos/ :)

Re: Show HN: Textile – Return Facebook photo exports back to nicely-named galleries

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Post by franciscop »

eddyg wrote: post #3

This is an open-source project, in case you don't feel like dropping your zip file in to your browser (even though it does run _in_ your browser): https://github.com/textileio/textile-facebook

Alternative if you feel extra paranoid:

- Load the page

- Disconnect from the internet

- Drop your zip

- Get your files

- Clear all page info

Re: Show HN: Textile – Return Facebook photo exports back to nicely-named galleries

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Post by carsonfarmer »

franciscop wrote: post #18
eddyg wrote: post #3

This is an open-source project, in case you don't feel like dropping your zip file in to your browser (even though it does run _in_ your browser): https://github.com/textileio/textile-facebook

Alternative if you feel extra paranoid: - Load the page - Disconnect from the internet - Drop your zip - Get your files - Clear all page info

Yup this will work. You can also check out the actual JS code to make sure we're not doing anything sneaky with your data: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Common_questi...

Re: Show HN: Textile – Return Facebook photo exports back to nicely-named galleries

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Post by andrewxhill »

gavino wrote: post #17
andrewxhill wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're into that, check out our core project, https://www.textile.photos/ . The idea is to give you control of all your data (starting with photos) doing backup not on our servers but on a decentralized service called IPFS, so you can maintain control and ownership of your data, always.

That link doesn't work for me, but this one does https://www.textile.photos/ :)

thanks! updated in comment too
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