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Webapps Stack Exchange · 2026-07-05
Archiving a Facebook group back to 2015: search misses posts, scrolling crashes at 2022
想备份 2015 年至今的 Facebook 群组帖子：搜索漏结果、滚动到 2022 就崩
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- WhoWebapps Stack Exchange · 2026-07-05 · 1 upvotes
- The askArchiving a Facebook group back to 2015: search misses posts, scrolling crashes at 2022
- The openingA group archiver: incremental crawl, dedupe, export to a searchable static site. Subscription for group owners and communities.
What was actually said
“I'm in a Facebook group that has posted trivia since 2015 and want to catalogue every post. Problem 1: group search omits posts. Problem 2: scrolling crashes around 2022.”
— Webapps Stack Exchange · 2026-07-05 · webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/182476/how-to-re…
Background and pain
The pain
Group content goes in but never comes out: official export skips groups, third-party tools die with API lockdowns, a decade of posts is nearly unreachable.
A buildable angle
The opening
A group archiver: incremental crawl, dedupe, export to a searchable static site. Subscription for group owners and communities.
How to validate it
- Read the whole thread and note the recurring scenarios — repetition is the density of the need.
- Search existing tools around "data export / facebook" and check which single step they actually cover.
- Put up a one-line landing page, share it back to Webapps Stack Exchange, and see whether anyone asks about pricing.
Existing options
官方数据导出手动截图
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