Facebook Artifact Parser

If you have a Facebook account, take a look under the hood some time by viewing the source in your browser while you're logged in. Imagine having to deal with all of that for a digital forensics investigation. It's mind numbing, especially if all you want is who said what and when. I spent the better part of today brushing up on Python's regular expression implementation and put together this Facebook Artifact Parser that does a decent job of parsing through Facebook artifacts found on disk (as of the time of this writing).

In my case, I made use of this by first recovering several MB worth of Facebook artifacts from disk and I combined all of these elements into one file. Having done that, run this script from the command line giving the name of the file as the only argument. It works on multiple files as well.