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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 as PDFs

  1. Open the Page Vault Browser from your Portal and sign into Facebook.

  2. Click the red Expand button.

  3. Select Bulk Capture a List of Post URLs under Capture Options.

  4. Paste the photo URLs.

  5. Click OK, then Expand and Capture.

  6. A PDF capture of each photo (with comments expanded) will be stored in your Portal.

Step 3: Capture Videos as Playable Files

  1. In your Page Vault Portal, click Batch.

  2. Select the Video capture type.

  3. Paste the video URLs you collected.

  4. Follow the steps in our [Copying Cookies Guide] to transfer cookies from your browser or the Page Vault Browser.

  5. Paste the cookies into the Site Cookies box.

  6. Start your Batch job.

  7. Each video will be captured as a downloadable and playable file, stored in your Portal.