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Learn about vigilant mode.

This release changes how fb reaches Facebook and adds a command for mirroring a Page to disk.

Reading without a cookie

fb now reads Facebook as an anonymous web crawler. It presents a crawler user agent and reads the same server-rendered pages Facebook serves to search engines, so a public Page, profile, group, or post comes back as HTML with the text, counts, media, and a few preview comments baked in. There is no login, no cookie, and no browser to drive.

  • The cookie layer is gone: the --cookie and --cookie-file flags, the FACEBOOK_COOKIE environment variables, and the cookie request header.
  • fb whoami now reports the access mode and user agent instead of a session.
  • The trade-off is depth: a feed exposes the most recent posts rather than the full history, and a post carries a handful of preview comments rather than its whole thread. Private targets still exit 4.

Archiving

  • fb archive <page> mirrors a Page's recent feed to a browsable tree of Markdown: one file per post under <out>/<page>/YYYY/MM/, plus a generated README.md indexed by year and month with a stats table.
  • Re-running is incremental. A small index.json records what is on disk, so a second run fetches only new posts; --force overwrites. The index and each post are written as the crawl proceeds, so an interrupted run resumes cleanly.
  • Post slugs are transliterated to ASCII, Vietnamese diacritics included, so accented titles produce clean file names.

Fixes

  • Group post permalinks (groups/<id>/posts/<id>) are now recognized when walking a feed.

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:0.1.1 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

  • 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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