The feature to download a single album was added with v2.100, but it's available only from the command line interface for now.
See:
http://follow.ourbunny.com/post/50874473404/photograbber-changes
To use it, you need the numeric ID of the album you want to download.
You can get it both via PhotoGrabber or simply by visiting the album and fetching the ID from the URL.
Method#1: via PhotoGrabber
a.) First list the numeric IDs of your friends with this:
pg.py --cmd --list-targets friends
(or see PG's help ("
pg.py --help
") for other values for the
--list-targets
option)
b.) List the albums of your selected friend:
pg.py --cmd --token FacebookToken --list-albums UserID
(this time you can use the same token -substitute it in place of "
FacebookToken
"- that you got in step#1 ... and of course use the
UserID
that you picked in step#1 as well)
c.) Download the album:
pg.py --cmd --token FacebookToken --album AblumID --dir "$HOME/Downloads/Album"
(note that the directory specified with the
--dir
option must already exist)
Method#2: via Facebook itself
a.) Visit the album in Facebook.
It'll have an URL like this:
https://www.facebook.com/exampleuser/media_set?set=a.10837657234745623.1048346747.747274662&type=3
b.) The
UserID
is the 3rd number in the URL (it's 747274662 in the above example), the
AlbumID
is the first number (it's 10837657234745623 in the example). You only need the
AlbumID
.
To download the album, you just need one PG invocation:
pg.py --cmd --album AblumID --dir "$HOME/Downloads/Album"
Comments
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In fact, due to Facebook API changes, many options (especially plugins, web extractors) worked amazingly now don't perform any more.
Personally I've tested dozens of methods to download or transfer Facebook photos/albums for the sake of backup, only to find 7 still work today (by the time I tested and updated). I've shared my findings in this post in case you want to check it out: http://www.softwarehow.com/download-facebook-albums-photos/
I'll try my best to keep the page updated if there is any outdated or new options.
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