So you want an easy way to download and save all of your pictures from Facebook? Perhaps Facebook’s mass sale of your data has you feeling paranoid? Maybe the whole social networking thing has become overly time consuming, pointless and petty? Perchance our generations growing detachment and increasingly infantalized minds has you worried for the future of our planet? I suppose you could just want all of your pictures, and your friend’s pictures, and anyone else who is randomly your “friend” on Facebook’s pictures too saved locally and accessible while your offline. It’s an understandable desire; often I wish I could spend long flights across the country looking at that 100+ picture set of last night’s party.
FacePAD is a Firefox extension that enables you to download entire photo albums on Facebook be they your own, your friends or even event-related with just a simple mouse click. Photo albums saved to your hard disk via FacePAD will automatically be saved to your Firefox default download folder. If you’d like to prevent a massive mess in your default downloads folder, I suggest you download albums one at a time and then spend some time relocating them to a logical folder. The filename structure of saved photographs is not pretty (probably something like n8605443_46897211_2166.jpg, as was the case with one of my photographs) so if that bothers you, you will need to employ a filename renaming program to assign more descriptive filenames to each JPG.
To use FacePAD, simply right-click on the photo album you wish to make your own and select the “Download Album with FacePAD” option from the context menu. Thereafter, a JavaScript prompt will materialize, indicating that the download process has begun. FacePAD uses some JavaScript trickery to scan through each page of the album, saving each photo as it blows through the contents of the album. As such, smaller albums will be downloaded almost instantaneously whereas larger albums might take a few moments. If you need more direction then I have thus given you, the developer of FacePAD has put together a full-tutorial utilizing the wondrous world of live action video. His video is available for viewing at YouTube.
Download FacePAD [addons.mozilla.org]
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