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How to Capture Facebook Photos and Videos tab

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Please note that you will need to be signed into a Facebook account in your browser to view and gather the URLs

At this time, we recommend using Firefox for these collections for the efficient use of Firefox extensions, while there are similar extensions in Chrome we found they do not get all the content needed.

Simple Scroll – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dr-josiahs-simple-scroller/

Link Gopher – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/link-gopher/

Capturing the Tabs

  1. Navigate to Facebook profile in Firefox and click on the user’s Photos/Videos tab
  2. Click on Simple Scroll extension. Click “go” and then “faster” until it’s scrolling as fast as the photos load.
  3. Let extension scroll the page until you get to the bottom of the page. You can click “stop” if you want to scroll up or down without the scroller continuously scrolling down.
  4. Click the Link Gopher extension. A very small pop-up below the extension will show up. Click “extract links by filter”. Type the word “photo” or “video” to get all photo URLs.
  5. A new tab will open up with the links. Select the list, and paste it into Excel/Google Sheets. Make sure you get rid of the general URLs: facebook.com and facebook.com/accountname.

You can follow the steps below to get a PDF/playable video capture of the content:

To get a PDF Capture of the content:

  1. Open the Page Vault Browser from your Portal
  2. Navigate to Facebook and ensure you are signed in
  3. Click the red Expand button and select “Bulk Capture a List of Post URLs” under Capture Options
  4. Paste the photo URLs
  5. Click “OK” and then “Expand and Capture” to kick off your capture!
  6. A PDF capture of each URL with its comments expanded will be stored in your Portal.

To get a playable Video Capture of the content:

  1. Click on “Batch” in your Page Vault Portal
  2. Click on the “Video” capture type
  3. Paste the video URLs you want captured
  4. Follow the steps in our article here to copy cookies from your browser/the Page Vault Browser
  5. Paste the cookies in the designated Site Cookies box
  6. Start your Batch job!
  7. A downloadable and playable output of each video will be captured and stored in your Portal
Updated on May 23, 2025
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