Facebook knows all about you: Unrolled thread from @dylanmckaynz
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/24
“Downloaded my facebook data as a ZIP file Somehow it has my entire call history with my partner’s mum a historical record of every single co […]” @dylanmckaynz
Full Unrolled thread from @dylanmckaynz [WayBack], the Twitter thread head is below.
The unwrap/unroll was done by ThreadReadApp which I bumped into thanks to Kristian Köhntopp: [WayBack] Discover and Read the Best of Twitter Threads.
My archive was less than 20 megabytes, likely because I hardly used it as it is way too much of a time sink.
You can download yours via the steps at [WayBack] How can I download a copy of my Facebook data? | Facebook Help Center
Basically, logon to Facebook, navigate to www.facebook.com/settings, initiate the download to create the archive (requires your credentials again), want for the confirmation, then download the archive, then run the script that Dylan created: [WayBack] A Ruby script for collecting phone record statistics from a Facebook user data dump · GitHub.
Cannot run it yet (Mac OS sierra has a ruby version that is too old).
–jeroen
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- [WayBack] Dylan McKay on Twitter: “Downloaded my facebook data as a ZIP file Somehow it has my entire call history with my partner’s mum… “
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| #! /usr/bin/env ruby | |
| # NOTE: Requires Ruby 2.1 or greater. | |
| # This script can be used to parse and dump the information from | |
| # the 'html/contact_info.htm' file in a Facebook user data ZIP download. | |
| # | |
| # It prints all cell phone call + SMS message + MMS records, plus a summary of each. | |
| # | |
| # It also dumps all of the records into CSV files inside a 'CSV' folder, that is created | |
| # in whatever the working directory of the program is when executed. | |
| # | |
| # Place this script inside the extracted Facebook data download folder | |
| # alongside the 'html' folder. | |
| # | |
| # This script requires Ruby and the Nokogiri library to be installed. | |
| # | |
| # Open source licensing | |
| # ——————— | |
| # | |
| # Dual-licensed under the MIT and Apache 2.0 open source licenses. Either license can be chosen | |
| # by any user of the program. | |
| # | |
| # The MIT license is duplicated here, the Apache 2.0 license can be found here | |
| # https://opensource.org/licenses/Apache-2.0 | |
| # | |
| # The MIT License (MIT) | |
| # Copyright (c) 2018 Dylan McKay | |
| # | |
| # Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated | |
| # documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation | |
| # the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, | |
| # and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: | |
| # | |
| # The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. | |
| # | |
| # THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE | |
| # WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS | |
| # OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR | |
| # OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. | |
| require 'nokogiri' | |
| require 'time' | |
| require 'fileutils' | |
| def hr | |
| $stdout.puts "-" * 24 | |
| end | |
| def indent(level = 1) | |
| $stdout.print " " * (level – 1) | |
| $stdout.flush | |
| end | |
| def section(title, level: 1) | |
| indent(level) and hr | |
| indent(level) and $stdout.puts title | |
| indent(level) and $stdout.puts | |
| yield | |
| indent(level) and hr | |
| indent(level) and $stdout.puts | |
| end | |
| # Extracts metadata from a call/text/sms/mms table | |
| # Returns nil if there is no metadata in this table. | |
| # Returns a 2d list of row/colums | |
| def extract_table_metadata(metadata_table) | |
| headings = metadata_table.css('tr').first.css('th').map(&:text).map(&:chomp) | |
| records = metadata_table.css('tr')[1..-1] | |
| return nil if records.size <= 1 # many tables are empty (excluding headings). | |
| [headings] + records.map do |call_record| | |
| call_record.css('td').map(&:text).map(&:chomp).map do |field| | |
| if field.include? ' at ' # some fields are dates/times | |
| # Time example: "Wednesday, 14 June 2017 at 19:02 UTC+12" | |
| Time.strptime(field, "%A, %e %B %Y at %R UTC%z") rescue field | |
| else | |
| field # no special processing | |
| end | |
| end | |
| end | |
| end | |
| def dig_out_metadata(container:) | |
| # If a specific type of metadata is missing (calls, texts, ..), the | |
| # container div will simply not be present. | |
| return [] if container.nil? | |
| contact_tables = container.children.select { |c| c.name == "table" } | |
| contact_tables.map do |contact_table| | |
| metadata_table = contact_table.css('table')[0] | |
| extract_table_metadata(metadata_table) | |
| end.compact.select { |t| t.size > 1 } # must include non-header rows | |
| end | |
| def print_metadata(metadata, metadata_title:) | |
| section(metadata_title) do | |
| metadata.each do |phone_records| | |
| puts | |
| indent(2) and puts "Another phone number" | |
| puts | |
| phone_records.each do |record| | |
| indent(2) and puts record.join(", ") | |
| end | |
| end | |
| end | |
| end | |
| def print_timestamps(metadata, metadata_name:) | |
| timestamps = metadata.map { |r| r[1].to_s.chomp }.select { |s| s.size > 0 }.map do |t| | |
| begin | |
| Time.parse(t) | |
| rescue ArgumentError # do not parse timestamp if unparseable | |
| t | |
| end | |
| end | |
| if timestamps.size > 0 | |
| puts "The oldest #{metadata_name} is from #{timestamps.min.to_date}, the most recent at #{timestamps.max.to_date}" | |
| end | |
| end | |
| def print_status_breakdown(metadata, metadata_name:) | |
| grouped_statuses = metadata.flatten(1).group_by(&:first) | |
| if grouped_statuses.size > 0 | |
| puts "This includes " + grouped_statuses.map { |status,records| "#{records.size} #{status.downcase} #{metadata_name}"}.join(", ") | |
| end | |
| end | |
| def metadata_to_csv(metadata) | |
| metadata.flatten(1).map { |record| record.join(',') }.join("\n") | |
| end | |
| def dump_metadata_csv(html_doc) | |
| call_history_container = html_doc.xpath("//h2[text()='Call History']/following-sibling::div")[0] | |
| sms_history_container = html_doc.xpath("//h2[text()='SMS History']/following-sibling::div")[0] | |
| mms_history_container = html_doc.xpath("//h2[text()='MMS History']/following-sibling::div")[0] | |
| FileUtils.mkdir_p("csv") | |
| call_metadata = dig_out_metadata(:container => call_history_container) | |
| sms_metadata = dig_out_metadata(:container => sms_history_container) | |
| mms_metadata = dig_out_metadata(:container => mms_history_container) | |
| File.write(File.join("csv", "call.csv"), metadata_to_csv(call_metadata)) | |
| File.write(File.join("csv", "sms.csv"), metadata_to_csv(sms_metadata)) | |
| File.write(File.join("csv", "mms.csv"), metadata_to_csv(mms_metadata)) | |
| end | |
| def print_metadata_human(html_doc) | |
| call_history_container = html_doc.xpath("//h2[text()='Call History']/following-sibling::div")[0] | |
| sms_history_container = html_doc.xpath("//h2[text()='SMS History']/following-sibling::div")[0] | |
| mms_history_container = html_doc.xpath("//h2[text()='MMS History']/following-sibling::div")[0] | |
| call_metadata = dig_out_metadata(:container => call_history_container) | |
| sms_metadata = dig_out_metadata(:container => sms_history_container) | |
| mms_metadata = dig_out_metadata(:container => mms_history_container) | |
| if call_history_container | |
| phone_numbers = call_history_container.xpath("//b[text()='Number:']/following-sibling::text()") | |
| .map(&:text).sort.uniq | |
| else | |
| phone_numbers = [] | |
| end | |
| print_metadata(call_metadata, :metadata_title => "Call History") | |
| print_metadata(sms_metadata, :metadata_title => "SMS History") | |
| print_metadata(mms_metadata, :metadata_title => "MMS History") | |
| section("The full list of phone numbers that have stored data") do | |
| phone_numbers.each_slice(8).to_a.map { |g| g.join(", ") }.each do |line| | |
| indent(2) and $stdout.puts line | |
| end | |
| end | |
| $stdout.puts "A brief summary of phone records" | |
| hr | |
| $stdout.puts "There are phone records for #{phone_numbers.size} distinct phone numbers" | |
| $stdout.puts "There are records of #{call_metadata.flatten(1).size} distinct cell phone calls" | |
| indent(2) and print_timestamps(call_metadata, :metadata_name => "cell phone call") | |
| indent(2) and print_status_breakdown(call_metadata, :metadata_name => "cell phone calls") | |
| $stdout.puts "There are records of #{sms_metadata.flatten(1).size} distinct SMS messages" | |
| indent(2) and print_timestamps(sms_metadata, :metadata_name => "SMS message") | |
| indent(2) and print_status_breakdown(sms_metadata, :metadata_name => "SMS messages") | |
| $stdout.puts "There are records of #{mms_metadata.flatten(1).size} distinct MMS messages" | |
| indent(2) and print_timestamps(mms_metadata, :metadata_name => "MMS message") | |
| indent(2) and print_status_breakdown(mms_metadata, :metadata_name => "MMS messages") | |
| hr | |
| end | |
| html_text = File.read('html/contact_info.htm') | |
| html_doc = Nokogiri::HTML(html_text) | |
| print_metadata_human(html_doc) | |
| $stdout.puts | |
| hr | |
| $stdout.puts "dumped metadata to CSV files at #{Dir.pwd}/csv" | |
| dump_metadata_csv(html_doc) |
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