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Backup Your Status Updates / Wall Posts

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The FLAST command will give the last N status updates for a user, so:
fbcmd FLAST =me 99999
will return all* of your status updates.

The FSTREAM command will give the last N posts to your stream (wall), so:
fbcmd FSTREAM =me 99999 -csv
will return all* of your stream posts

and note that 
fbcmd FSTREAM =ME new -csv
will return any posts since your last query, which is useful for incremental backups.  You may wish to play with the various *STREAM Preferences to control the output.

Note that large comment threads on each post are not returned automatically by FSTREAM, and so you will have to use a FULLPOST command to retrieve individual comment threads, which could be done in some kind of wrapper script.

*Note: Facebook does put a limit on the number of updates / posts it returns.  The limit is currently undocumented.
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