If you want to review recent activity on your Facebook account or want to review your Facebook account information, you can use the Access Your Information tool. Can I pick and choose which information I would like to download? When you download a copy of your data on Facebook, you'll have control over which categories of data you want to include in the download, as well as which date range of data you want to include of the data you want to receive.

These choices are available when you make the request for your information. Learn more about what's included. You'll receive a ZIP file that, once opened and extracted, will contain an HTML file named index that you can open like a web page on your web browser. The ZIP file will contain folders with files, including any images and videos you've requested. JSON: A machine readable format of your data that could allow you to transfer your information more easily when uploading it to another service.

You can also choose the quality of your media files photos, videos when you request a copy of your information. If you choose a higher quality version of your media, your download will be larger and take up more space.

We have a number of security measures in place to help keep your account secure and protect your information on Facebook. Before you can begin downloading a copy of your information, we'll first ask you to enter your password. We may also ask you to complete additional verification steps before allowing your download to begin. To help protect your account, your download request will expire after a few days, and you can always request a new one. Our security systems are always running to help mitigate threats before they reach you and your friends on Facebook, and we offer tools like Security Checkup and two-factor authentication as additional ways to improve the security of your account.

Learn more about keeping your account secure. Note: Keep in mind that your data request may contain private information. You should keep it secure and take precautions when storing or sending it, or uploading it to another service. You can always select specific sections when requesting a copy of your information. I tried section Downloading a binary file and writing it to disk of this page which worked as a chram.

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. ZipFile StringIO. StringIO r. ZipFile io. BytesIO r. Thanks for this answer. I used it to solve my issue getting a zip file with requests. If you'd like to save the downloaded file in a different location, replace z. If you just want to save the file from the url you can do: urllib. To help others connect the dots it took me 60minutes too long to, you can then use pd.

Useful if you have a zip url link that contains multiple files and you're only interested in loading one. Show 7 more comments.

Can you please add the sample snippet as well. It would be so kind of you to do so — Sarvagya Dubey. Jeremiah England Jeremiah England 7 7 silver badges 12 12 bronze badges. Answers should not rely on links for the bulk of their content. Links can go dead, or the content on the other side can be changed to no longer answer the question. Please edit your answer to include a summary or explanation of the information you link points to. And can this parameter affect the speed of downloading?

Here's what I got to work in Python 3: import zipfile, urllib. Webucator Webucator 1, 16 16 silver badges 27 27 bronze badges. How can avoid this error: urllib. I think the issue your facing is addressed here: stackoverflow. Webucator What if the zipped folder contains several files, then all those files will get extracted and stored in the system.

I want to extract and get just one file from the zipped folder. But while the social network makes it fairly simple to download everything it knows about you, it doesn't provide a roadmap for how to parse that data or figure out what it means. Facebook announced Wednesday , however, that in the coming weeks, it will expand the data it allows you to download to include likes, reactions, search history, and location history. The social network also plans to add an option for users to transfer the data to another service if they want.

Part of the rollout includes a new tool called Access Your Information, which allows users to more easily view and delete old posts, reactions, comments, and search history.

For now though, your Facebook data is still likely filled of surprises. Over the weekend, some Android users were shocked to learn that Facebook retained metadata about their call and SMS history. That's far from the only interesting piece of information you might find by sorting through your Facebook file. Here's what I found looking through mine, and tips for how to find the most interesting information in yours. First, you'll need to download the file of data that Facebook has on you.

To do so, go to your Facebook settings. After opting in, you'll receive two emails, one acknowledging that Facebook received your request, and another that includes the file when it's ready. Depending on how much content you've posted to Facebook—including photos, videos, text posts, and other forms of media—it might take some time for the file to be prepared.

I've been on Facebook for over a decade, and my But I also haven't uploaded many photos or videos to the site. Once you have the file, you can download it as a folder to your desktop.

Mine was labeled "facebook-louisematsakis. The first piece of information you will want to look at is a file labeled index.

Clicking on this file will open a tab within your browser, with a menu of options on the left-hand side. Under Profile , you'll find a list of basic information the site has about you, like the exact time you signed up for Facebook, the contact information you've provided, as well as any work or education history.

One surprising piece of information on this screen: Facebook keeps a list of everyone you've previously said you were in a relationship with.

For me, this includes a bunch of my friends, because back in middle and high school, it was cool to declare you were in a relationship with a close friend. The list only includes three people I've actually dated. The very first person on the list is, inexplicably, my own cousin being 13 was weird, OK?