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Comment by heinrichhartman

I wrote about this a while ago: http://heinrichhartmann.com/blog/2017/12/31/Quitting-Faceboo...

""" Problem with the facebook exporter are:

- All comments are missing. Even the ones you wrote yourself!

- There are no images in the timeline.

- The number of likes and shares is missing on the posts.

Before I delete my account, I wanted to have a more decent backup of my timeline. I looked into printing out the timeline, exporting it as pdf, full-page screenshots, massaging the DOM/HTML. I could get none of this working, with acceptable effort.

Eventually I went throught the whole timeline (100s of posts!) and screenshotted each one individually. To make this process a little less tedious I changed the OSX keyboard shortcut for full page scrrenshot to F1, so I could use the following combo:

[...] """

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