Few weeks ago I had a project to create a website for a church. A church’s website doesn’t need to have any complicated features, just static pages for maps and directions, service times, photo gallery, some introductory write ups, etc and this can be easily done using WordPress. The Church already have a Facebook page with a few photo albums that I have to move to the official website. Although it is not something very difficult, but it is definitely very time consuming if I had to manually save every single photo from right click menu and then upload it to the official website.
What I need is probably a web browser extension either for Chrome or Firefox that can somehow help me to easily download and save all the photos to my computer so that I can upload it to the official church website. There seems to be quite a few suggestions but most of them are outdated plugins that no longer works. Finally I found a website called PhotoLive that lets me save photos and albums from social networks like Facebook, without needing access to my account.
PhotoLive works with Chrome, Firefox, Safari, IE, Opera, and more. All I need to do is drag the bookmarklet to my bookmarks bar or save it as a bookmark to install. Then when I want to download the album from Facebook, I will just need to be in the album page and click the “Download Photos” bookmarklet. A small PhotoLive bar with two buttons (Download Album or Hi-Res) will appear on top of the photos.
Clicking the Download Album button will bring me to PhotoLive’s website and within a couple of seconds will prompt me to download all the photos compressed into a single in ZIP file. If the album in Facebook contains more than 25 photos, PhotoLive will split them into a multiple parts with 25 photos per part.
Downloading photo albums from Facebook using PhotoLive can’t get any easier than this. No need to install third party software and don’t need to use apps that always ask for access to your accounts. The service is 100% private and secure, meaning they don’t save or cache the photos, account information, browsing history, etc.. In fact, the extension doesn’t even retrieve any information other than the photos you select. Very useful and I hope their free service will be available for a long time.