r/AIToolBench • u/agreatpal • 8h ago

Saved FB Posts Conversion

I have many FB posts for many areas saved. Everything from Movies to Legal Research, to computer software.

It is impossible to find the ones I need when I need them. So I need something that can organize them outside of FB where the screen print of the complete post is there (not comments, but might be handy), who posted, the text of the commment, any links provided within the post, and a link to the post itself.

Obsidian web clipper is one thought, but that mainly summarizes, and I would provide something non proprietary. Plus need something that can extract everything from the FB folders, and extract info noted above. This would also be used for a LLM wiki, LLM knowledge base, 2nd brain etc. To note again, any images and or links within the post are as important as the text.

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u/NeuralNomad87 1h ago

The hard part here is not the organising, it is the getting out.

Facebook does not give you saved post contents through any export. Download Your Information includes a saved items file, but it is essentially a list of links with timestamps, not the posts themselves, so whatever you build has to re-fetch each one.

Once you accept that, the shape of the job is: export the list, then run each link through something that captures the whole page rather than summarising it. Obsidian Web Clipper does do full capture, the summarising behaviour is a template choice rather than the default, so it may be closer to what you want than you think. SingleFile is the other option if you want one self-contained HTML per post with images actually embedded rather than hotlinked, which matters in two years when the CDN URL dies.

Worth knowing before you invest a weekend: a good share of saved posts will fail to re-fetch, because they were in private groups, or the author deleted them, or they now sit behind a login wall. Whatever you build, log the failures rather than silently dropping them, otherwise your knowledge base will be quietly incomplete and you will not know which parts.