Facebook Data Image Exif Tool

A simple tool, written in Java, to add EXIF data back to images downloaded in a Facebook data export.

Instructions can be found here

Downloads can be found on the releases page!

Development

You need JDK 11.

sudo apt-get install openjdk-11-jdk

You can build a JAR using Maven:

JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64/ mvn clean package

Github Actions

Github actions are configured on this repository and will build JARs for you.

You will find these JARs in the build output of Pull Requests.

Releasing

Bump the version in 2 places in code, and write the CHANGELOG.

Navigate to the Github Actions build for the commit that you are looking to release from.

Test the jar locally. =]

Make the release:

• "Draft a new release on Github"
• Enter the tag for the version you coded in
• Enter the changelog into the release description
• Rename the JAR you tested "with-dependencies" to "facebook-data-image-exif.jar"
• Attach the JAR to the release
• Hit "Publish release"
• TADA!

Further Reading

• This tool (in a PHP form) was originally created in 2016.
• It was converted to Java in 2018
• And then most recently updated in 2020