Step by step

Install FB Group Exporter. Add the free FB Group Exporter extension to Chrome from the Chrome Web Store and pin it to your toolbar.
Open the group. Log in to Facebook as usual and open the group you want to download. It can be public, or private if you are a member.
Start the download. Click the FB Group Exporter icon, choose "Everything" or "Since a date", keep "Comments & replies" on, and click "Download this group".
Export your data. When it finishes, open your Library to search the posts, or export them to CSV (Excel), an offline HTML/PDF archive, JSON or AI-ready JSONL.

Try it on your group, free. The free version downloads 200 posts with all their comments. Pro is $24.90 once for unlimited.

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Why Facebook's own export doesn't work for groups

"Download your information" only includes content you created. Posts written by other members, and the comments under them, are not included. Copying posts by hand works for a handful of posts, but long discussions hide comments behind "View more comments" and "View replies" links. Large groups can have tens of thousands of posts.

What gets saved

For every post: author, date and time, full text (never truncated), reactions, comment and share counts, photos with their descriptions, shared links and the permalink. For every comment and reply: author, date, text, reactions and the comment it replies to, so whole threads can be rebuilt.

How long does it take?

Facebook loads posts in small batches, and FB Group Exporter waits between requests like a person would, to protect your account. Expect a few thousand posts per hour with comments, and much faster for posts only. You can pause anytime, and even close Chrome. It continues exactly where it stopped.

Keeping the download up to date

After the first download, "Update now" fetches only what is new: new posts, new comments on recent posts, and older discussions that got new replies. With Pro it runs automatically every day.

Free vs Pro

The free version downloads up to 200 posts from one group with all their comments, so you can test it on your own group. Pro is a one-time $24.90 for unlimited groups and posts, every export format and automatic updates.

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