Re: [Discuss] Facebook backups?

2014-04-28 Thread Bill Ricker
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 11:56 PM, John Abreau wrote: > But both need to be operated > manually from within a web browser, and won't work from cron. > If wget/curl don't work, can you use a text-mode browser like Lynx, probably with 'expect'? If that doesn't work ... ​There are​ Perl modules to

Re: [Discuss] Facebook backups?

2014-04-28 Thread Tom Metro
John Abreau wrote: > Facebook has a mechanism for manually downloading an archive of all your > account's data...need to be operated > manually from within a web browser, and won't work from cron. What's the limitation that prevents it from working from wget? JavaScript? Unpredictable URL? WWW::M

[Discuss] Facebook backups?

2014-04-27 Thread John Abreau
I want to set up a cron job to make weekly backups of my facebook account. To do that, I need a command-line tool for backing up an account, and I've had no luck finding such a tool. Facebook has a mechanism for manually downloading an archive of all your account's data from a web browser, and I a