Note that this tool will be writing directly to the media, overwriting any existing attached metadata. If, for whatever reason, this data is missing the sent date will be used instead. For most media Facebook stores a creation date, and this will be used if possible. Photos, videos and gifs are all supported. You can use facebook-data-image-exif to handle that other media. This tool only adds metadata back into Facebook Messenger media, not media found elsewhere in a Facebook archive. Facebook Messenger Exif automates that, letting you simply drag and drop media into other services. Crucially this includes the date, making importing a very time-consuming process as you will need to manually add the date to each piece of media in order for it to show in the right place in your timeline. You are given the metadata in the archive, but it is stored separately from the media files.Īs a result if you try to import media into another service, such as Google Photos or Apple Photos, it will be missing that metadata. This is useful because, at least currently, when you download an archive of your Facebook data the media within it doesn't contain any metadata. Facebook Messenger Exif is a small python program used to add date and time metadata back into the Facebook Messenger media found in a Facebook archive.

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