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How to Capture Facebook Photos/Videos Tab

Best practices for collecting Facebook photos and videos with Page Vault

To capture content from the Photos or Videos tab on a Facebook profile, you must be signed into a Facebook account in your browser. At this time, we recommend using Firefox for these collections due to the efficiency of its extensions. While Chrome has similar extensions, we’ve found they do not reliably capture all necessary content.

Recommended Firefox Extensions

  • Simple Scroll – Automates page scrolling to load all available photos/videos.

  • Link Gopher – Extracts photo and video URLs from the loaded page.

Step 1: Gather Photo/Video URLs

  1. Open Firefox and navigate to the Facebook profile.

  2. Click on the user’s Photos or Videos tab.

  3. Launch the Simple Scroll extension:

    • Click Go and then Faster until scrolling matches the content load speed.

    • Allow the extension to scroll until the page reaches the bottom.

    • Click Stop at any time to manually scroll.

  4. Once the full page is loaded, click the Link Gopher extension.

  5. In the small pop-up, select Extract links by filter and type photo or video.

  6. A new tab will open with the extracted links.

  7. Copy the list of URLs into Excel or Google Sheets, and remove general URLs (e.g., facebook.com or facebook.com/accountname).

Step 2: Capture Photos and Videos with Batch Social Media

Once you have your URL list, you can capture the photos as PDFs and the videos as playable MP4 files in a single Batch job using the Batch Social Media tool in your Portal.

  1. In your Page Vault Portal, navigate to Batch > Social Media.
  2. Select Bulk URL Capture.
  3. Select Facebook from the platform dropdown.
  4. Paste in all of your collected URLs — photos and videos together — one per line.
  5. Toggle on Capture Embedded Videos so videos are saved as MP4s alongside the PDF captures.
  6. Authenticate your Facebook session using one of the following:
    • The Page Vault Chrome Extension (if you're signed into Facebook in your native browser), OR
    • Enter cookies manually — toggle this on and paste your Facebook cookies. See our Copying Cookies Guide for help.
  7. Choose your destination folder, name the job, and add a Case Matter ID if needed.
  8. Start the batch job.

Each photo URL will be captured as a PDF with comments expanded, and each video URL will be saved as a downloadable, playable MP4 file. Everything is delivered to the same folder in your Portal once the job completes.

Batch jobs run in the background on Page Vault's servers, so you can close your browser and monitor progress from the Job History page in your Portal.