Download a collection of images from Facebook quickly with just a click of a button, without the use of a macro! This extension not only works on facebook albums, it can also download images from user profiles, pages and even groups.
The Facebook Album Downloader was developed to mass download photos as the platform did not have a mass saving feature. It posed as a good opportunity for me to learn how to develop chrome extensions, which utilises script injection to carry out its functions. This was also the first time I was exposed to fetch requests.
The image data is retrieved through the use of a fetch request that loads image data on scroll, and the link of the image is then used by the extension to download the image. A series of fetch requests are also made prior to getting the image data, as the specific request required variables that had to be fetched from multiple sources, such as doc_id, page_id and so on.