Downloading whole facebook chat history

irving1994 · 8 Dec 2014 at 20:17

Hey just a quick one, does anyone know how to download a whole Facebook chat log. I know I could scroll up and up, but at 25k messages I would be there a long time, any ideas would be great because I could really do with having the whole log on my desktop for reference.

I know that Facebook offers a download all files, but it doesn't include all of he chat logs just random chunks of them which isn't very useful.

Thanks, Dan

Zenduri · 8 Dec 2014 at 20:23

irving1994 said:
....but at 25k messages I would be there a long time......

Have you left your house in the last 2 years? You're on facebook way too much with that many messages!

irving1994 · 8 Dec 2014 at 20:26

Haha no I use the messenger app on my phone, its a method of contacting someone most of the time as opposed to text.

Just for a bit of fun though, it is less than a years worth this chat haha

xbenjiiman · 8 Dec 2014 at 20:31

Settings > Download a copy of your data

[FnG]magnolia · 8 Dec 2014 at 20:32

25,000 messages in a year is 55 per day.

What the hell is wrong with you?

irving1994 · 8 Dec 2014 at 20:34

I tried using that but it didn't give a complete copy of all of the chat log, just about 1/5 of it if even that

irving1994 · 8 Dec 2014 at 20:35

[FnG]magnolia;27320366 said:
25,000 messages in a year is 55 per day.

What the hell is wrong with you?

Chat between friends which turned into a relationship, which now has sentimental value to have the whole log

Caged · 8 Dec 2014 at 20:36

Jesus just let it go, no good can come from having a copy of it handy to re-read whenever you're questioning something.

Diddums · 8 Dec 2014 at 20:37

Crikey, I don't think I have 55 ever since I made a Facepage account, never mind 25k!

jsmoke · 8 Dec 2014 at 20:37

I could probably code you an app to do it.

SexyGreyFox · 8 Dec 2014 at 20:43

irving1994 said:
Chat between friends which turned into a relationship, which now has sentimental value to have the whole log

Love letters aren't what they used to be.

[TW]Fox · 8 Dec 2014 at 20:44

[FnG]magnolia;27320366 said:
25,000 messages in a year is 55 per day.

What the hell is wrong with you?

Presumably it's being used as an instant messaging service in which case 55 messages a day in a two way conversation isn't much, do you not have conversations with people where you both say 25 sentences each?

fiveub · 8 Dec 2014 at 21:35

Same could be said for our post counts.

OhEsEcks · 8 Dec 2014 at 21:38

I dread to think how many individual messages I sent back in the day over messenger services before social media became prevalent. IRC, even more so. I'm still using IRC today and have been since the late 90s...

[FnG]magnolia · 8 Dec 2014 at 21:46

[TW]Fox;27320442 said:
Presumably it's being used as an instant messaging service in which case 55 messages a day in a two way conversation isn't much, do you not have conversations with people where you both say 25 sentences each?

Oh, right. I thought it was like 55 emails per day or similar. I'm not very good at driving facebook.

Fuggan · 8 Dec 2014 at 21:51

[FnG]magnolia;27320366 said:
25,000 messages in a year is 55 per day.

It's 68.

[FnG]magnolia · 8 Dec 2014 at 21:57

Welp, I'm knocking it out of the park today :eek:

adam98150 · 8 Dec 2014 at 22:02

Thanks for this. If you had a friend who turned into your partner and you talked on FB a lot it makes a nice gift.

SexyGreyFox · 8 Dec 2014 at 22:45

[TW]Fox;27320442 said:
Presumably it's being used as an instant messaging service in which case 55 messages a day in a two way conversation isn't much, do you not have conversations with people where you both say 25 sentences each?

I use my real voice, I can't type that many words

Buffman · 8 Dec 2014 at 23:17

adam98150 said:
Thanks for this. If you had a friend who turned into your partner and you talked on FB a lot it makes a nice gift.

Does it really tho? Me and my gf talk a lot on fb but 99% of it is boring trash or what we're up to at th weekend