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		18pfsmt on Feb 5, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It’s too late for Dave Winer and John Battelle to ... Whatever this data dump from FB consists of, is it in some usable form? My understanding is that it's a pdf without any ability to import it into any other software. For example, can you import birthdays directly into iCal (or w/e) or import email/ phone #s into your desktop or mobile addressbook?

mark_l_watson on Feb 5, 2012 [–]

I just downloaded the dump. It is HTML and JPEG images. So, you are correct: you would need to write a script to extract what you want.

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