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				The 
				Facebook 
				Memotech MTX500 Group is a very active group for 
				users of the Memotech MTX range of computers. Over the past few 
				months, there have been many interesting technical posts in this 
				group which would have been better posted to user forum, such as
				Memorum, 
				rather than a Facebook group. This would have allowed better 
				filing, archiving and particularly, searching of these old 
				posts. If you want to retrieve something from a Facebook Group, 
				you need to keep scrolling to the bottom of the web page, 
				selecting "older posts" and/or "View more comments" until you 
				either find what you are looking for or give up! 
				I was becoming increasingly frustrated by having to wade 
				through pages and pages of older posts to find something that I 
				knew had been posted and I wanted to retrieve. I did some "Googling" 
				on this subject and did not find an ideal solution to the 
				problem, however, I did find something that gives me the ability 
				to retrieve all posts and comments into a single HTML file that 
				can be searched. 
				I
				
				found this post that describes how to use
				node.js and the
				
				Facebook Graph API Explorer to do what I wanted. 
				  
				
				
					
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						Dump Facebook Group posts & comments
							- Install node.js 
							on your PC
 
							- Go the the
							
							Graph API Explorer
 
							- Get an Access Token for User Groups
							- (The code is time limited, just get a new one as 
							needed)
 
						 
							 
							- You can get "me/groups" for a list of your 
							groups 
 
							- (If you just want to do the MTX group, it is 
							2443017753)
 
							- Download the fbgrpdmp.js file (select the Zip 
							file icon)
 
							- Edit it to include your Access Token
 
							- Open a command prompt in the directory where the 
							.js file is
 
							- Enter "npm install fbgraph"
 
							- Enter "node fbgrpdmp.js 2443017753" 
 
						 
						An HTML file will be created containing all posts and 
						comments  | 
						by Dave Stevenson (code author 
						Shaman AlicanC)  | 
					 
					
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