Show HN: Facebook data analyzer

Don't worry, Zuckerberg will save it for you.

It looks like within the past 8 months or so that Facebook has changed to format of their data dumps to not truncate messages, as their previous data dumps were previously structured as one giant messages.htm file which would be difficult to parse and seems like it had missing data for certain cases.

I haven't seen truncation, but it is misleading the way it breaks up conversations. Instead of getting full threads, you'll get chunks of convos in chronological order which makes it a nightmare to follow anything.

Staying on top of these undocumented pseudo-formats is a real challenge. That's why it's a good idea to not wait to archive stuff.

When I wanted to analyze my Google Voice history of 9 years, all of the scripts to parse it didn't work anymore, so I had to write one: https://github.com/unqueued/googlevoiceparse

Google Takeout's HTML archives weren't exactly friendly when I wanted to drill down and find certain patterns.