Facebook Group Archiver. Downloads all content from a Facebook group's Feed into a moderately attractive local html/image archive.
This is a simple tool in case you ever find that you have a ton of content in a Facebook group that you want to hold onto for some reason.
Currently Facebook provides a similar feature for personal profiles, but it does not provide it for groups.
Built using Python 2.7
$ virtualenv ENV --no-site-packages --unzip-setuptools
$ source ENV/bin/activate $ pip install -r requirements.txtA nice tool for this is http://wallflux.com/facebook_id/ Just past the url for your group into the box, and out comes the id. All you want is that number highlighted in yellow on the resulting page. You don't need to register the page or anything.
There are two ways to get an access token. Since this application runs relatively quickly, you can be find just generating a temporary token using the Graph API Exporer. To do so, go to https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer click on the "Get Access Token" button. Copy this new token somewhere. You can also generate a more perminent access token by following the directions here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16054033/facebook-graphapi-oauth-how-to-get-access-token
Take the two values you gathered above, and paste them into your config file, replacing the defaults that are already there.
$ python ethan.pyEverything is written to a directory called "content" Just open up the index.html file there and you should start seeing the output as soon as the script starts.
Content is paginated, at 25 results per page. At the bottom of each page is a "Next" link that takes you to the next page.
This uses the templating system "Quik". The two templates used are for the main index pages, and for the larger photo pages. You can edit these templates and in the html/ folder. You can also adjust the CSS in the css folder. If you make this better, please send it back to me as a pull request and I'll update things here.