Howto Social Media Data Grabbing and Archive

Social Media Data Grabbing and Archive

How to archive all your Facebook data

If you want an archive of everything you’ve ever done on Facebook, you can do that here (Settings > Privacy > Your Facebook information. To download a copy, click View next to Download profile information. From there, you can choose the file format, the quality of photos and videos, a date range, and the categories of data you want to grab. When you’re ready, scroll to the bottom of the page and hit Request a download.

How to save and backup your Tiktok data

Just tap Profile at the bottom of the screen, hit the three lines in the top right, and select Settings and privacy. From there, choose Manage account at the top of the page and tap Download your data. Read the explanation, select your preferred file format, and slam that Request data button at the bottom.

How to download your Twitter data

To grab your Twitter archive, head to the account settings page (Settings & privacy on the app) and click on Your account. Then, navigate to Download an archive of your data, where you’ll have to enter your password, log in, or otherwise verify you own the account. When you’re in, hit Request archive to ask for a ZIP file stuffed with your account information, history, activity, ads data, and other details. Once Twitter has processed your request, it’ll send you a link for downloading. You’ll need to have a confirmed email address if you want to go through with the process.

How to download Instagram data

Downloading your Instagram data is on a separate page: From the main menu (three lines), tap Your activity followed by Download your information. Enter an email and hit Request Download to get a link to all your stuff.

How to save your Snapchat data

If you’re still using Snapchat (or you stopped, but want to know what information the company has about you), you can go into your app settings (tap your avatar, then the gear icon in the top right), scroll to the Account Actions heading, and tap My Data. Then, hit Submit Request and enter a valid email address. It will take a while for the company to put your data into a ZIP file (usually a couple hours) and then you’ll get a link that will start the download

Instagram Can Take Video Too

Instagram, the wildly popular photo-sharing app that was bought by Facebook last year for a cool billion dollars, just announced that it now supports videos.

They're pretty cleanly integrated into your feed; they won't autoplay as you scroll, instead showing just as a thumbnail with a small icon of an old-timey movin' picture camera in the top-right corner to indicate that these are videos rather than stills. Tap the image to start playing. Easy!

Videos can be up to 15 seconds long (or as short as 3 seconds), and you can stop and resume recordings while shooting, so you don't have to take a single continuous shot like you do with Snapchat. All the usual Instagram filters can be applied, and the videos include audio as well. It's available right now as an update for the iOS app, with Android soon to come.

So, the obvious question: isn't this just, um, a carbon copy of Vine, the video app launched by Twitter earlier this year? Ha ha ha welllllll yes, it is pretty much exactly the same, except Instagram is an app used by 130 million people a month, and Vine has maybe a tenth that many. And Vine has had trouble; apparently a stream of videos isn't the easiest thing to grapple with, and Vine is often buggy or slow to load. Instagram videos could be almost three times as long as Vine videos--how is Instagram going to deal with that? "We have to figure this out," Instagram's CEO told.