deface cleans and consolidates posts exported through Facebook's Download Your Information page. It fixes the broken character encoding, removes duplicate fields, and converts to a more compact and well-defined schema comprising only seven record types. It also combines the posts from several archives exported from Facebook into a single, coherent timeline.

deface helps extricate your content from Facebook, so that you can permanently extricate yourself from the social network. That matters because Facebook is an imminent threat to human rights and democracy all over the world. I made the case against Facebook as an invited talk at Rebase/SPLASH in November 2020.

To install deface:

$ pip install deface-social

To run deface:

$ deface posts/your_posts_1.json

Please see the documentation for more information about deface, including on usage and background. deface has been released as open source under the Apache 2.0 license.