Importing Facebook posts into Mastodon or Friendica?

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨yigruzeltil@lemm.ee⁩ to ⁨fediverse@lemmy.world⁩

Ok, this might be a dumb question, but is it really technically possible in any way - even a convoluted one, like manually downloading HTML pages from Facebook? - to mass import posts from one’s Facebook into Mastodon or Friendica instead of painstakingly copying them one by one? I’ve got a 10+ year archive to port and it’s a daunting task to go through them…

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otter@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Manually downloading HTML posts would be more difficult, but it might be possible by parsing the data export you can download from Facebook

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Krafting@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Into Mastodon, I don’t think it’s possible easily

In friendica, There seems to have work on it, but nothing perfect it seems…

github.com/friendica/friendica/issues/5212

Maybe other people will find a workaround

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- yigruzeltil@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  The last poster says: “I found a roundabout way to go at it by transfering the posts to wordpress, I’ll figure it out from there :)” I would have liked more info on that, though I’m afraid there would still be a catch - I don’t use Wordpress anymore and never was a power user, so I’m not sure it would be possible on a free tier to stash an entire Facebook archive on a Wordpress page - and then what about importing it into the fediverse? There should be a guide for this somewhere.
  
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  - Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    You might be able to self-host WordPress if it is just a matter of importing. As WP is federated, you can, presumably cross-post it from there.
    
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  - MajorHavoc@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    That sounds like a good approach. If your can get the posts into WordPress, there’s so many number scripts out there that will export the WordPress database into other formats.
    
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