Fejstbukov Parser
As I was working on Programmer’s Guide Slovenia, which is primarily an aggregated site of useful links from a Slovenian Developer Facebook group, a number of requests slipped into my inbox asking if I could make the content visible for non-Facebook users.
After a brainstorming session I got quite interested in making a simple bookmarklet that transformed a Facebook post into a standalone HTML content preserving as much visual of an original post as possible.
Since it was a bit easier, I made the bookmarklet that transforms mobile (m.facebook.com) posts into standalone HTML files that anyone can view.
It takes a mobile post:
and strips off:
- javascript
- unnecessary HTML elements
- Facebook tracking URL wrappers
- current user data
it also: - replaces relative with absolute Facebook URLs
- expands all replies/comments
and spits everything out in a standalone HTML file that looks like this:
It’s nothing fancy actually, since it operates on HTML DOM level.
The project is publicly available:
Since this violates the Facebook Privacy Policies, the parser unfortunately was not used in any way.