Monday, January 18, 2010

Preserving Facebook for posterity

I've written my first Facebook application. It's horribly ugly, error messages are cryptic or nonexistent, and it's guaranteed to explode, but it will let you export both your notes and status updates as HTML, Atom, or a CSV file. Excel will happily import the CSV file and Safari will happily treat the Atom export as a feed.

Go here and authorize the application:
http://ping.fm/rwh1P

Code is here:
http://ping.fm/ZF38w

It's hosted on Google App Engine, which occasionally generates a DownloadError exception for unknown reasons; if you get this a reload usually fixes the problem.

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