How to download data from Facebook and Instagram
There are means for the user to download their personal information from platforms such as Facebook or Instagram. In social networks, all user information fits. Not just the photos you upload to platforms like Instagram or Facebook. Also his friends, the way in which he relates to them, his likes and a wide variety of data that can range from personal email to the phone number. Possibly, if you have gone from being an active user to using them from time to time, on some occasion you may have wondered how you can recover all this amount of information before closing the account. Especially the photographs. To solve this question, the Internet User Security Office (OSI) has compiled the steps that must be followed whether we are talking about Facebook or Instagram.
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In the case of the social network par excellence, if you want to download your data, the first thing you must do is open the application on your mobile device or go to the Facebook website and log in. Once this is done, you should go to “Settings” and from there to “Your Facebook information”. At this point, all you have to do is click on “Download your information”.
There you can select the data you want to download. The options are various and go far beyond the photographs that you have uploaded to the platform. These include “Publications,” “Photos and Videos,” “Comments,” “Likes and Reactions,” “Friends,” “History,” and much more. It is also possible to make a copy of all the data at once and download it to your device. «Downloading your information is a password-protected process to which only you have access. Once the copy is created, it will be available for download for a few days, “explains Facebook.
You can also select the format in which the data is downloaded (HTML or JSON), the quality of the multimedia files and set a date range of the desired information. Once this is done, all you have to do is select “Create file” and the data will start copying. In the “Copies available” section, you can see the status of the operation. When completed, Facebook will send you a notification to notify you.
The quintessential photographic “app” also has a tool for users to download their data if they deem it necessary. It is a fairly simple procedure that goes through accessing this website (1) within Instagram itself. When the site opens, you will see that the “Privacy Security” option appears selected. And that, in the middle of the screen, a section is displayed where you can read “Get a copy of what you have shared on Instagram”: “We will send you an email with a link to a file with your photos, your comments, your profile information and more. We can only work on one request for your account at a time and it could take up to 48 days to collect this data and send it to you. ”
Just below the text you must enter the email where you want to receive all this information. If you click on “Next”, the service will ask for the platform password to make sure that nobody is trying to impersonate you. After writing it, the download will start.
You can also carry out this operation from the social network application for «smartphones». In case you want to do it this way, you must open the “app” and go to your profile. There you will see, in the upper right corner, three horizontal lines on which you must click. Once there, you must go to “Settings”, “Security” and “Download data”. From this point, the procedure will be similar to that described above. You will have to write the email to which you want the data to be sent and click on “Request Download”.
