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How To Download Your Facebook Photos

Posted by Nick O'Neill on March 6th, 2009 11:51 AM
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-Facepad Icon-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.

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70 Comments »

  1. 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?

    Comment by anon — March 6, 2009 @ 9:21 am

  2. 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

    Comment by Maurizio Mazzanti — March 6, 2009 @ 9:44 am

  3. thx so much nick, i really needed this!

    Comment by Daniel Adams — March 6, 2009 @ 11:33 am

  4. 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

    Comment by Jamie Ellis — March 8, 2009 @ 5:23 pm

  5. pergh…betul ke ni

    Comment by seks melayu — March 13, 2009 @ 9:33 pm

  6. why does the application only allows to downloads 5 photos from each albums? I have Firefox/3.0.10 and FacePAD 5.0.8

    Comment by Mtin — May 27, 2009 @ 6:04 pm

  7. 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.

    Comment by Julian Ranger — July 11, 2009 @ 2:02 pm

  8. how do i download a picture or facebook icon

    Comment by susanna dougherty — August 12, 2009 @ 11:38 am

  9. I have 41 photos in 1 particular album but it will only load 20 and then it stops!? Anyone got any ideas?

    Comment by neal — September 16, 2009 @ 4:41 am

  10. 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

    Comment by golemo — October 2, 2009 @ 8:23 pm

  11. 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 :)

    Comment by connie j. casella — November 7, 2009 @ 5:36 am

  12. Hi, I would like to download photoes on my account but I didn't find the option I have to use it in order to accomplish this process.

    Comment by ibrahim — November 26, 2009 @ 12:27 am

  13. my foto error in my facebook

    Comment by bio sulwan — December 4, 2009 @ 5:48 pm

  14. It worked perfectly! It saved me a lot of time. Thanks

    Comment by econdc — December 8, 2009 @ 8:24 am

  15. i whant to have facebook and i doent whant to type my parsword or email adress

    Comment by harry — December 20, 2009 @ 4:31 am

  16. i whant my own facebook

    Comment by harry — December 20, 2009 @ 4:32 am

  17. I’m trying to get my pictures from my computer to a face book album. I have done it in the pasted by doing the following steps:
    Create new photo Album
    then it would bring up my Documents and then pictures and I would just like on the folder I wanted then it would put it on my created Album. Now it will not.

    Comment by Angelia Wampler — December 20, 2009 @ 6:33 pm

  18. i just wanna upload pictures to my album on facebook

    Comment by ombese david — December 22, 2009 @ 4:15 am

  19. Please please can someone put me out of my misery??

    Why can I not upload photos onto my facebook?

    It keeps telling me upload failed!!! I have a lot of photos, and to do it 5 at a time will take me forever!!

    xxx

    Comment by Pammie — December 26, 2009 @ 9:52 am

  20. I am having the same problems as angela where I have downloaded pic's for quite some time but for the last week I cant download any pictures! We are military and this is our way of communicating with family that we cant see thru the holidays!!! Someone please tell me how to fix it!!

    Comment by christy — December 28, 2009 @ 5:28 am

  21. How do i download pictures from my mobile to my Facebook account?

    Comment by Mercedes Monreal — January 1, 2010 @ 8:44 am

  22. Don't waste your money on Socialsafe. It's a good thing it's cheap because it's also crappy. It only saved about a week's worth of status updates, doesn't save tagged photos, doesn't save wall-to-walls, doesn't save posts on your wall by other users, doesn't save messages, etc.

    It annoys me that Julian is outright LYING on here. I downloaded it and could NOT find any way to save ANY of my tagged photos.

    Comment by Jake — January 13, 2010 @ 4:06 pm

  23. I need to download my photos

    Comment by Frank — January 25, 2010 @ 2:01 am

  24. Doesn't seem to work on Firefox on a Mac. Nothing happens, installed it but can't see anything that lets me save albums or individual photos.

    Comment by Matthew — January 30, 2010 @ 10:36 am

  25. Here is the best bulk download application on Facebook. Zip and save all of your tagged photos, friends albums and profile pictures to your computer. http://apps.facebook.com/savephotos/

    Comment by Facebook User — February 6, 2010 @ 7:05 am

  26. COMMENT ON FAIS POUR TELESCHARGET FACEBOOK

    Comment by ELSA — March 5, 2010 @ 1:08 pm

  27. This is the most dumbest website I have ever been to that won't download F***en pic's. I don't know why you people have to change everything all the time. This is really GAY I hope you STUPID people fix this problem. But according to this website I am on that won't happen, look how many people have already wrote on this stupid thing. WOW, this is a waste of time. BYE. I will go on MYSPACE that is easier:) <3 Kenyeta!

    Comment by Kenyeta — March 13, 2010 @ 12:27 pm

  28. Use “My Tagged Facebook Pictures” to download all of your tagged pics.
    link: http://www.MyTaggedFacebookPictures.com

    Comment by matan — March 14, 2010 @ 7:10 pm

  29. i downloaded photos but now i can’t find them this makes me very unhappy. before u changed facebook it was very easy to download pictures now i cant find where they even go. help

    Comment by tina kuiee — March 16, 2010 @ 12:23 pm

  30. You can also download FaceXport, which makes it really easy to download whole albums.

    http://www.FaceXport.com/

    Comment by Anna — March 17, 2010 @ 12:23 am

  31. firefox 3.6 not supported

    Comment by Bangon Kali — March 17, 2010 @ 10:37 am

  32. i want the new version way to download my pic on face book

    Comment by fidaa — March 19, 2010 @ 9:01 pm

  33. i dont have any comment all i want is to download a picture on my facebook profile

    Comment by FISAYO DAVIES — April 17, 2010 @ 5:29 am

  34. help me out i cant download pictures from my documents to my facebook account tried with create a foto album but didnt work out

    Comment by eleanor — April 27, 2010 @ 8:04 pm

  35. I have been having trouble getting the "Browser" to let me brows through my pictures to pick the ones I want to add.

    This goes to the one I want for my profile picture. If there is help,please let me know just how you got your photo on to the facebook. Thanks for the extra help and will be looking for the answer.

    Comment by Donald Allison — May 2, 2010 @ 5:07 pm

  36. can you please tell me step by step to download pictures to my facebook from a cd

    Comment by tina — May 3, 2010 @ 3:13 am

  37. how to have pic on facebook…

    Comment by evelyn — May 7, 2010 @ 7:29 am

  38. I can't believe how many incredibly stupid posts I have seen on this page! Thanks for the app.

    Comment by freddy — June 26, 2010 @ 2:11 am

  39. How can I download my pictures from my document to facebook?

    Comment by Christophine — June 28, 2010 @ 7:17 am

  40. Your advice was nothing – can't you do better than that? Just tell how we send pics to Facebook. My picture is on there and I did not send it and don't know who did it. Let's get organized with our pictures so that people know what we look like Val Luttrell

    Comment by Val Luttrell — July 20, 2010 @ 5:22 pm

  41. i need a profile pictures

    Comment by angela — August 6, 2010 @ 8:01 pm

  42. was just wondering has anyone else had this issue with the FacePAD…i had no issues till yesterday now when i tried to download an album with 32 pics in it i end up with over 4000 pics :S:S i tried uninstalling firefox and the facepad then reinstalling both and tried downloading the album again and still end up with 1000 copies of each pic :S:S:S

    Comment by t.s — August 8, 2010 @ 8:47 pm

  43. how can i change my picture on facebook

    Comment by jhonalyn natividad — August 10, 2010 @ 3:37 am

  44. how can i change my picture

    Comment by Tansk Jacky — August 15, 2010 @ 11:21 pm

  45. go to ur facebook page and from there i will tell u

    Comment by dakota — October 10, 2010 @ 5:55 pm

  46. For those who want to download all their photo albums (or those of their friends) with one click, there is a Facebook application that (without installation):
    http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=1...

    Comment by Michael — October 17, 2010 @ 7:49 am

  47. There is also and iPhone app that let you do that,it called Faces Of Facebook. You can download all your friends's profile pictures, sync them with your phone contacts and download yours and your friends albums.

    Comment by Simone Morellato — November 24, 2010 @ 5:27 pm

  48. Or if you want to download all your albums or profile pictures of your friends check out this iphone app: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/faces-of-facebook-...

    Comment by Simone Morellato — December 8, 2010 @ 1:02 pm

  49. Any chance of an extension for google chrome? Maybe I missed it.

    Comment by @Rushxxy — January 7, 2011 @ 12:13 am

  50. Thank you so much! I needed to do this because of a hard drive crash that left all my photos gone except for those on facebook.

    Comment by MC Psalmist — January 9, 2011 @ 9:31 am

  51. Iam having problems downloading pictures to my account so what should ido

    Comment by brian kiplangat — January 19, 2011 @ 5:21 am

  52. Can u freaken tell us how to download a pic on face book

    Comment by daisy da sucker — January 27, 2011 @ 9:02 pm

  53. well its amazing how people tink, every body need their own privacy i tink i also need mine

    Comment by praise — February 1, 2011 @ 7:19 am

  54. I don't understand this new communist rule of Facebook. Your suppose to share pictures with Friends, Family, & Colleagues.

    Comment by John Vickrey — February 15, 2011 @ 3:45 pm

  55. How can I download my information from Facebook?
    To begin this process, go to your Account Settings page, then click the "learn more" link beside "Download Your Information." From there, click the "Download" button.
    /help/?faq=18842

    i'm closing my account now.

    the dick has made his billions and now doesnt give two shits about its users….. and what WE WANT – we are what made you your million you cunt !!! bah

    Comment by pissed off FB user — March 20, 2011 @ 2:50 pm

  56. Guys go a head with to download pictures from facebook…no need to install any addon

    Comment by Parthasarathy — April 2, 2011 @ 12:01 pm

  57. I am trying to post a photo on Facebook and it will not work.

    Comment by Amirah Mcfarland — April 4, 2011 @ 10:20 pm

  58. Nice article

    Comment by Sadia Komal — May 5, 2011 @ 9:43 pm

  59. I just use this great iPhone app to download any facebook photo or album called "Fotobook App". Check it out at http://fotobookapp.com

    Comment by sd193 — May 26, 2011 @ 6:15 am

  60. this app lets you download all photos your tagged in along with comments and tags, check it out http://www.fotofetcher.co.uk

    Comment by woz — June 1, 2011 @ 5:40 pm

  61. you need to get something called a facebook email. and when u have the pic that u want to send all u have to do is send it to that email

    Comment by Taylor — June 5, 2011 @ 6:22 pm

  62. Comment by Dr. Anthony Offu — June 6, 2011 @ 10:55 pm

  63. helpfull article

    Comment by Pardeep — August 17, 2011 @ 11:24 pm

  64. AUTHOR REMOVED THE APPLICATION!

    Comment by Tammy — September 2, 2011 @ 12:43 am

  65. Im trying to find some lsu pictures to put on my facebook account.. If its possible I would like to put lsu theme song and a pictures on my cell phone. my cell is apantech and its slide phone. If it dont on mine. My sister has a smartphone and u can use her phone. The number to hers is 225-313-7499. And my number is 225-281-9840. Thanks for your time.

    Comment by Laura Mcdonner — September 8, 2011 @ 3:08 pm

  66. thanks very much

    Comment by aishat mahmud — September 23, 2011 @ 3:52 pm

  67. How can i add my picture to my faceboo

    Comment by Uduak — September 25, 2011 @ 1:06 pm

  68. I need a picture on my facebook

    Comment by morzo tina — November 15, 2011 @ 3:56 am

  69. If you have an iPhone you can check out Fotobook to download your albums, your friend's albums or your tagged photos. It's super simple and syncs with iPhoto:
    http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fotobook-for-faceb...

    Comment by James — December 16, 2011 @ 5:45 am

  70. here is what I get, when I go to your site: This add-on has been removed by its author.

    how about you remove your whole post? You don't appear to have any CLUE of what you are talking about.

    Comment by Samuel Clemons — January 29, 2012 @ 12:50 pm

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