How to download your social media data


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Following the speculation of Indian government banning social media apps with only 2 days notice, my friends asked me how to download their data. So I quickly collated the official links to help them.

I have covered the official guides of Instagram, Twitter and Facebook to download all your data. In future I will share tools to browse this data and use it without depending on tech companies to keep our data in their servers.

Instagram

https://www.facebook.com/help/instagram/181231772500920?helpref=hc_fnav

Twitter

https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/accessing-your-twitter-data

Facebook

You need to use only one of these methods to download all of your Facebook data.

From Computer

https://en-gb.facebook.com/help/212802592074644

Using basic mobile browser (like Browser app)

https://en-gb.facebook.com/help/mobile-basic/212802592074644?helpref=platform_switcher

Using mobile browser (like Chrome, Firefox or Safari)

https://en-gb.facebook.com/help/mobile-touch/212802592074644?helpref=platform_switcher

Using Android app

https://en-gb.facebook.com/help/android-app/212802592074644?helpref=platform_switcher

Using iPhone app

https://en-gb.facebook.com/help/iphone-app/212802592074644?helpref=platform_switcher

Using iPad

https://en-gb.facebook.com/help/ipad-app/212802592074644?helpref=platform_switcher

Using Facebook Lite app

https://en-gb.facebook.com/help/fblite/212802592074644?helpref=platform_switcher