How to convert Facebook and Instagram images into ASCII

Did you know that every image you upload to Facebook or Instagram is secretly transferred by Facebook and Instagram to ASCII automatically. To convert Facebook and Instagram images into ASCII, all you need to do is edit the URL.

Did you know that every image you upload to Facebook or Instagram is secretly transferred by Facebook and Instagram to ASCII automatically. To convert Facebook and Instagram images into ASCII, all you need to do is edit the URL.

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1. Convert Facebook image to ASCII

Note:

This only applies to images that you post on Facebook in Public mode, not for images set to Private.

1. Access your Facebook page and find an image that you share in Public mode. This means that you cannot use images set to private or only your friends can view these images to convert to ASCII.

2. After loading the image, right-click anywhere on the image and select 'Open Image in New Tab' .

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The image will now open on a new tab.

3. Your task is to look at the address bar on your browser, you will see the full path to the image on Facebook. This path has an extension that can be formats like .jpg, .png, .

All you need to do is add .html at the end of the URL in the address bar and press Enter. Immediately images will be converted into ASCII characters.

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4. You can now copy ASCII characters to your computer. Press Command + S with Mac or Ctrl + S with Windows to save the ASCII image to your computer.

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2. Convert Instagram photos to ASCII

1. On any browser on your computer, visit Instagram.com, then log in to your Instagram account. Next click on any image you want to convert to ASCII.

Make sure that the image you want to convert to ASCII must be set to Public mode. And the image you choose to convert to ASCII is not an image used as a profile picture.

2. After selecting the image on the image page, add 'media' (note there are no quotes) at the end of the URL in the address bar that links the image directly.

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In the above example, the image URL is "https://www.instagram.com/p/vvPs4bMUjh/".

After adding media to the URL, it will look like: "https://www.instagram.com/p/vvPs4bMUjh/media".

3. Now that you are on the image page, click on the address bar on the browser and add ".html" after the image format as shown below:

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4. Your image will be converted to ASCII and you can save this image on your computer for use.

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Refer to some of the following articles:

  1. How to embed videos and articles from Facebook into any Website
  1. Instructions for setting up auto reply to messages on Facebook Fanpage
  1. Fixed an error that could not log into Facebook: "Your Computer Needs To Be Cleaned"

Good luck!

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