A tool to restore EXIF data to images downloaded in a Facebook data export.
Inspired by addshore works
Forgive code quality, it was written in notepad
Shamefully plagiarized from the blog addshore.com
Exchangeable image file format (officially Exif) is a standard that specifies the formats for images and tags used by digital cameras and other systems handling image files.
Snipped from WikipediaCommon Exif data for an image includes the time that it was taken, the camera make and model and the coordinate data for the location of the image.
This data is different to the data you might find in a file browser, such as “Date Modified”.
When you uploaded an image to Facebook, part of the process would remove the Exif data that was attached to the image and store it elsewhere.
As a result, when you download all of your data including previously uploaded images, your images are missing this data. Most of the data is preserved elsewhere in the data download, but it is no longer attached to the image itself.
Download Exif Tool Follow this link
Download Facebook data (use JSON format)
Follow this link
Extract Facebook archive
Some file path are extra long, extract archive in a small path directory like "C:\fb\" to avoid errors
Export existing metadata of downloaded facebook files
exiftool.exe -r -json >exif.json C:\fb\*
This tool works in your browser, your data will not be uploaded to some server