The Danosphere.

It's not really working for me. The first times I did it, I got the general profile info (name, age, etc.) and the last time I tried it, I got nothing. Does it need any particular privacy setup to work?

Hey sorry you're having trouble JS but I'm happy to help. What browser are you using?

Try clearing your cookies, closing your browser and then retrying the login/export process. I made some updates that might fix the problem you're experiencing. Let me know how it goes.

Anyone else having issues?

Still playing with it. It's the form that's the problem for me. I can't toggle the checkboxes at all, except by using the select all and deselect all links, and coincidentally the only thing that ends up exported is the item that you autoselected, the <profile> stuff. What I got looks great though.

I'm on Firefox 3.6.3. Installing Konqueror now.

I'm guessing the problem is in your checkbox jquery. “checked=” isn't properly boolean, it's just says whether the default condition of the checkbox is checked or not, and any value (“=true”, “=false”, or “=dragontongue”) will check it.

I'm still not sure, but it's definitely a ui problem.

Thanks for helpin weed through this. I just updated the site again, the UI logic is fixed you should be able to toggle the checkboxes correctly now- let me know if that solved your problem.

Thanks!

Checkboxes are fixed. I can still only get the <profile>, but none of the links, notes, or other good stuff.

That is very odd, no one else has reported these types of issues…. My suggestion would be remove the app from your facebook profile (Account -> Application Settings) and then logout and try the entire process again. It will prompt you to add the app and allow it a subset of permissions, just go through the motion and see if that works.

If other people were having similar issues it would be easier to diagnose but so far you are the only person who has had problems (and I have had several friends try across a spectrum of browsers and OS's)

Let me know how it goes, sorry for the difficulty!

I have the same problem. I could export all the data somehow but after that when I try to export only part of the data it exports only my personal info but not my friends info as I wanted.

I just did that, but I got the same result. Heisenbug? The reason that I suspected that it was a UI problem is because the only section that you autoselected for the user is the only section that consistently comes through. Could you just whip it up as a straight, no jquery, html form (facebookexport light?) so that I, paucku, and the nameless lurkers can see if it works for us?

Thanks for all of the replies. I'd like to see this work for me, because it's something that people I know want.

[...] reading know that I have updated FacebookExport with some changes that should fix issues users in a previous post had brought up. For one reason or another some people could only export the first (preselected) item. I changed up [...]

Just got it to work using my N900, and the results are fantastic. I still have no idea why my main laptop (firefox on ubuntu) hates the site, but it may be the fault of an errant extension or something. Great job, and thank you.

Hey JS,

Glad to see you got it working! Thats so weird that it doesn't work on your main laptop… maybe its something with ubuntu… or maybe its how im passing the selected exports on to the xml page. I am going to try to pass the vars using a different method which may fix the issues (the preselected one is hard coded, thats why it works everytime).

I am working on getting the photo exporter completed this weekend and then ill circle back and implement the variable-passing using a different method.

Just want to thank you guys for your help troubleshooting this, I know it can be frustrating but I'm just 1 dude doing this after I get off my dayjob so I have very limited testing resources at my disposal, but with your help I will get the exports working for as many people/platforms as possible

Sit tight for now, Ill roll the photo exporter out this weekend (fingers crossed!) and then update the main data export stuff to hopefully get it workin for everyone. Thanks again! Stay tuned, Ill post updates as they are ready.

Hey guys, check it out: http://www.thedanosphere.com/2010/06/19/fbexpor... just updated the site ahead of schedule, please let me know if that fixed the problems you were havin…

hello. I would like to export all of my links. is that possible? i have 386 links. the export only gives me the last 25 posts instead of all 386. thank you for any advice you provide.

This is awesome. How can we get our entire status history instead of the last X number?

Thanks! Yep Ill have to add some modifications to enable that but I'll try to get that in on the next update I do.

Yeah that's possible, Ill try to get this in on the next update as well, keep an eye on the blog/rss/my twitter/the facebook fan page to keep up to date on when that gets posted.

Hi, I can't seem to get any of the friends info. I can export my own profile and activity, but no information about my friends. Is this feature still working?

i've tried 3 times to view my downloaded data only to get an error: “Only one top level element is allowed in an XML document. Error processing resource 'file:///C:/Documents and Settings/Admi…”

I've also tried to open the .xml file in MS Word to get the same error in a dialog box popup …

any ideas ??

When saving messages, I only get a few dozen. Is there anything I need to do to get them all?

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I am trying to download my inbox but i get just like 10, 20 messages in it? while it should be 2 years of stuff. is there any option i can set?

thank you guys!… I am trying to don't attach to any social site. Am maintain the control of my information. I think everybody has the right to do it. So this is amazing tool to do it. Continue like dat I think there is gonna be much people interested about it!!!… thank you

This is not working,.
I keep getting this Error, within the file that you generated.

Warning: file_get_contents(https://graph.facebook.com/me?fields=movies,books,notes,groups,statuses,activities,interests,television,events,music,inbox,outbox,feed&access_token=134544216555636|2.iRzW9sfiVEyq6lh36f_k8A__.3600.1302184800-772970297|L3dBcjCLQWVcmf_yARg7xxXHJck) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.0 400 Bad Request
in /home/www.thedanosphere.com/web/content/fbe/export_download.php on line 196

Catchable fatal error: Argument 1 passed to XMLSerializer::generateValidXmlFromObj() must be an instance of stdClass, null given, called in /home/www.thedanosphere.com/web/content/fbe/export_download.php on line 223 and defined in /home/www.thedanosphere.com/web/content/fbe/lib/XMLSerializer.class.php on line 7

hi
thanks very much for creating this .. it is great.

But I have a little problem
it works only partially and does not export all the old postings on the wall..  only works upto posts that are about 6 months old.

I would like to have a back up of my entire wall right from when I started my profile three years ago.

hope you can fix this
ciao
ash

The login with facebook button is throwing a javascript error in chrome

“Uncaught Error: OAuth2 specification states that ‘perms’ should now be called ’scope’. Please update.”