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removing your facebook photo tags automagically

November 24, 2009 at 1:22 pm · Filed under planet, procrastination, python, security, social networking, sorry for my english

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Privacy at Facebook is heavy-duty. As a big fan of the Worlds Collide Theory I hate be tagged compulsively. I would like to select in which photos appear in my profile and feed. Since I couldn’t find that option in the setting menu, I looked for the answer in my favorite scripting language: Python.

This 60-lines-long script removes your tag from the latests photos where you has been labelled. You can download it from here. You may run it hourly (or every 15 minutes, or every 5 minutes, depends how paranoid you are) via cron or whatever.

Any improvement is welcome. It probably runs on Windows too. If you managed to do it, leave a comment for the others.

NEW VERSION! (available here).

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Comment by Mauro
2009-11-24 14:33:44

There’s also pyfacebook, I believe that supports this kind of stuff (tagged photos, etc etc):
http://github.com/sciyoshi/pyfacebook

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Comment by luciano
2009-11-24 15:54:01

IIRC, there is no way to remove a tag with the facebook api (yes… you can tag.. but who wants to!?)

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