Open Facebook download files in your browser
The ZIP Facebook makes when you download your information. Open it right here as your profile and posts in order, with their photos and places, beside everything else Facebook kept. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your archive opens as your profile and your posts in order, each with its photos and videos from the archive, beside your likes, follows and messages.
- Posts • With their photos, videos, replies and counts
- Likes, follows and followers • Each a list, Show as a table
- Direct messages • As chats, each person in a color
- Search • Every match counted, and a date jumps to its day
About Facebook download
Facebook has let people download what their account holds since 2010. In Accounts Center, under Your information and permissions, Download your information makes one or more ZIPs, in JSON or in HTML, and sends a link once they’re ready, often days later for an old account.
Inside are hundreds of files in folders like your_facebook_activity, personal_information, connections, logged_information and ads_information: posts, photos and albums, comments, reactions, friends, pages, groups, searches, the topics Facebook picked for your ads, the advertisers who uploaded your details and the apps and sites that told Facebook what you did. The JSON writes every accented letter and emoji as broken bytes, and the HTML is one page a list.
Filepeek reads the ZIP as it came, in JSON or HTML, and mends the broken letters. Your profile with its picture and cover tops your posts, each with its photos, place, link and the friends tagged in it, and every other part is a list of its own, Show as a table. Your Messenger chats open as conversations, and Search finds any word in all of it.
Facebook Download your information archive
.zip
Format
- MIME type
- application/zip
- Made by
- Meta
- Released
- 2010
Inside the file
- Kept as
- A ZIP of JSON or HTML files
- Posts
- Posts, photos, videos and check-ins
- Lists
- Comments, reactions, friends, searches and ads
- Messages
- Messenger chats, a folder each
Opens in every browser
Filepeek opens Facebook downloads in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari, in JSON or HTML. On their own, browsers download the ZIP, and its HTML pages show one list at a time without their pictures until it’s unzipped.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Apps that open Facebook download
- WindowsIts HTML pages open in a browser once it’s unzipped
- MacIts HTML pages open in a browser once it’s unzipped
- iPhone and iPadNo app opens it
- AndroidNo app opens it
Questions
How do I download my Facebook information?
In Facebook’s Settings, open Accounts Center, then Your information and permissions, then Download your information. Pick the profile, All available information or the parts you want, the format and the dates, and Facebook sends a link once the ZIP is ready.
JSON or HTML, which should I pick?
Either opens here. JSON keeps the exact times and the places of your posts, so it’s the better pick if you’re asking again.
Why are letters like é shown as é?
Facebook’s JSON writes each byte of an accented letter or emoji as a character of its own. Filepeek puts them back as they were written, in your posts and in your chats.
My download came as several ZIPs. Which one do I open?
Each holds part of the account. Open any of them on its own, and the parts in it show. Your Messenger chats are often in a ZIP of their own.
Why are some photos missing?
Facebook only puts in the photos and videos of your own posts and albums. A post you shared from someone else links to it on Facebook.