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One of the limiting features of Facebook Photos is that users are not able to download the photos they uploaded without individually viewing each one and saving them to the computer. Keep in mind even that may technically violate Facebook’s terms of service. If they are your photo albums though, you should be able to download them back to your computer, right?
The makers of the new FacePAD Add-on sure believe so which is why they’ve made new add-on for all Firefox users. The Add-on is extremely simple. When you are visiting an album you can right click and select “Download Album With FacePAD”. I personally haven’t tested it out but so far the tool has received perfect reviews.
So far over 84,000 people have downloaded the Firefox Add-On and that doesn’t appear to be slowing down at all. I can’t see Facebook objecting to this even though it may currently violate their terms depending on how it’s used. If you are using it to download your own photos, I would assume it would be perfectly legit. As Facebook has been emphasizing over the past week, you own your data, not Facebook.
If you want to be able to download all of your photo albums with one click, go checkout the Facepad add-on. Be sure to let us know if you have a good experience using it.
I’m surprised you don’t have a share this button to share in facebook…of all places. Try the Sociable Wordpress plugin, that’s got a facebook one to activate.
Anyway, interesting extension, bookmarked.
Question for you. What about the massively irritating placement of ads in some of the apps that lead to very misleading setups? Case in point, Good Karma application. I love this app, but when you go in to send a good karma, the position of the IQ test thing at the bottom of the karmas to select has a “continue” bar in green, that’s very similar to the green bar containing “Please select a karma”. It’s clearly intentional and meant to get a certain number of people to accidentally hit the ad’s continue bar.
There are greasemonkey scripts to scrub this s#it off but the issues of deceptivity remain, I think. The odds of facebook addressing this are slim to none, I guess, but what do you think?
you have to click save for each photo in “save with name” shell, so it’s not real a “save one album with one click” add-on
thx so much nick, i really needed this!
Limitations:
- Downloads to the ‘Downloads’ folder (Windows Vista), no prompt or UI/ options to choose a place to put it - would preferred a subfolder of My Pictures (Upto XP)/ Pictures (Windows Vista/7/2008) ideally
- No U/I or Facebook options (just ’shell extension’ to Firefox and development builds Minefield & Shiretoko)
- Has to be used on the link to a photo album to work
- No individual photo download
- Uses Facebook sizing n format (n[userid]_[randoms]) not the originals* (there is at least 2 published sizes t and n)
- Does not work with tagged photos of you by other users (collective ‘Photos of name’ section)
Implications:
Maybe break Facebook ToS
Privacy, risk of profile clones as will work on ANY friend album
pergh…betul ke ni
why does the application only allows to downloads 5 photos from each albums? I have Firefox/3.0.10 and FacePAD 5.0.8
Open disclosure - I am connected to SocialSafe
Our SocialSafe application (www.socialsafe.net) backs up your Facebook data, including ALL your photos and ALL the photos you are tagged in with one button push. The application is not free, however - it costs $2.99.
how do i download a picture or facebook icon
I have 41 photos in 1 particular album but it will only load 20 and then it stops!? Anyone got any ideas?
But it cant download tagged photos of a particular profile
Please pretty please..
Next update make it possible to download a person tagged photots which is not in their album haha XD
Thanks you very muchie!
Ps:Just a suggestion haha
Hi! I am trying to download pics from my niece’s facebook page. Do I need firefox and facepad? Or just facepad? I don’t think I have firefox. But I do have a firewall. Is that the same thing? Help! Thanks, Connie