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[Discuss] Facebook backups?



John Abreau wrote:
> Facebook has a mechanism for manually downloading an archive of all your
> account's data...need to be operated
> manually from within a web browser, and won't work from cron.

What's the limitation that prevents it from working from wget?
JavaScript? Unpredictable URL?

WWW::Mechanize might help.
https://metacpan.org/pod/WWW::Mechanize

 -Tom

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