Facebook Post Backup Tool

Motivation

With the current Facebook policies in place, there's a risk that significant posts may be removed due to malicious reports. To safeguard against this, I write a simple script to back up posts shared on Facebook.

Prerequisites

Before running the script, make sure that the required dependencies are properly installed. There are two methods to do this:

1. Using poetry: Install poetry and run the script as described under the 'Usage' section.

2. Using pip: Directly install the dependencies using pip with the command provided below:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

To use the tool, run the following command with poetry:

poetry run python src/main.py --url [url] --filename [filename]

Replace [url] with the URL of the Facebook post you want to back up, and replace [filename] with the desired name of the output file.

The script will store the backed-up post in a directory named after the post time (e.g., "2023-07-15"), and the file name will be the one you provided (e.g., "a.md").