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Learn about vigilant mode.

The first release of fb, a delightful, scriptable command line for Facebook. It turns facebook.com into typed, structured data from a single pure-Go binary with no runtime dependencies and no browser.

Highlights

  • Entities. Resolve any Page, profile, or group to a rich record, and stream its feed with --posts, bounded by --limit or by date.
  • Posts in depth. Pull a post with its full comment thread (--comments, --replies, with parent_id on every reply) and its reaction breakdown (--reactions, --list). Pagination walks to the end, so -n 0 takes everything.
  • Media. Stream photos, videos, and reels; resolve a single photo or video including playable sources with --streams; list public events.
  • Discovery. search across Facebook's surfaces by type, and fb id to classify any handle, id, or URL with no network call.
  • Datasets. seed a root into URLs, crawl them into records, and db query a local SQLite store with SQL.
  • Output. One formatter for every command: table, jsonl, json, csv, tsv, yaml, url, and raw, with --fields and --template.

Install

Homebrew

brew install tamnd/tap/fb

Scoop (Windows)

scoop bucket add tamnd https://github.com/tamnd/scoop-bucket
scoop install fb

Container

docker run --rm ghcr.io/tamnd/fb:0.1.0 version

Debian / Ubuntu, Fedora / RHEL, Alpine
Download the .deb, .rpm, or .apk for your architecture from the assets below and install it with your package manager.

Binary
Download the archive for your platform from the assets below, extract, and put fb on your PATH.

Notes

  • Facebook gates most reads behind a login. fb reads the no-JavaScript surface and is explicit about the wall: commands that need a session exit 4 with a hint. Supply a cookie with --cookie, --cookie-file, or FACEBOOK_COOKIE to unlock full data.
  • Every archive ships a CycloneDX SBOM, and checksums.txt is signed with keyless cosign (checksums.txt.sig + checksums.txt.pem).

Documentation: https://facebook-cli.tamnd.com

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