guymorita / tinpull

Step 1 - Get Facebook Auth Token

• Go to this url Auth URL
• Authenticate with your Facebook credentials.
• Open up the Chrome debugger - (cmd + opt + j)
• Click "Ok" on the Facebook modal prompt
• Find the url like below. "../dialog/oauth/confirm...":
• Double click on the token itself and save it. Save it. It should be a really long string. Over ~250 characters.

Step 2 - Get Facebook ID

• Go this url Graph API Explorer
• Enter in the auth token you just saved.
• Click submit
• Save the ID. Ex. "10722692"

Step 3 - Export Chats

Open up your terminal

• Clone the repo and cd into the folder

git clone https://github.com/guymorita/tinpull.git
cd tinpull

• Run npm and run the file

npm install
node tinpull.js

• Follow the prompts by pasting and entering the Facebook Auth Token, Facebook ID, and name
• The script will output a folder with all your chats in CSV format and also in a zip format (easy to send)
• Send over the zip.