Now, you can download Facebook Messenger conversations and other data like pictures and posts, from your account. Open your Facebook account, using any device. You can get specific about the information including the dates or you can download everything by leaving the defaults in place. I left the defaults in place. Click it. Depending on how much information you chose to download, it may take a while. You may get an email from Facebook that says your request is being created.
I did not receive an email. However, you will see a message in your notifications when the file is ready.
When you see the notification in Facebook, click it. Log in to your Facebook account and open the menu at the far top right. This page gives you several options before you actually download anything. First, choose a date range, media quality, and file type. Originally, you could only download all your data. But now, Facebook allows you to choose what you download. Directly below the file creation options is a list of available data to download.
Everything is selected by default. If you only want your chat history, leave Messages checked. This can take anywhere from a few minutes to several days for extremely large amounts of data. Press this to download your file, including chat history. Unzip the file and open the contents to view your messages. You can also use online tools. Alternatively, use a third-party extraction tool for Windows, Mac, or Linux. The simplest third-party way to download your Facebook chats is to use Messages Saver , an extension available for Chrome.
Messages Saver keeps things nice and simple. Click it to access the downloads summary. How to download your Facebook Messenger Chat history. By the way: archived chats can now also be downloaded : Follow these steps to download and save your facebook messenger chat history:.
Facebook offers the option to download your message history. The extension did not work, and the second method only allowed me to download a part of the conversation.
I did not find either solution to work, but I found these Python scripts to work perfectly. As this could take a while in my case only seconds you will receive an e-mail when the download is ready: The download is a. The data is incomplete, tough: Images posted during a conversation are missing. I have fixed and extended the scripts in this Python project of mine. In particular check for the conversationScraper.
You can simply download all the messages for a specific conversation by specifying the corresponding conversation ID. Download and install it from here Messages Saver for Facebook It can save your chats in various formats: plain text HTML with all the media in a chat CSV file for easy export to Excel ZIP archive, then all the media of a chat are saved locally to your computer, which makes your chat virtually independent from Facebook servers.
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