I built a elasticsearch importer for fb messages and a simple web frontend that did this pretty well for many many megabytes of messages. Wouldn't mind cleaning it up if people were interested in using it. [edit: will upload here later: https://github.com/iainnash/messenger-explorer/]
One is a local application, one is a Ruby script, one is a client-side browser application which doesn't send any data. Only one app listed on this site so far needs to bring your data to a server, and they at least say they don't retain it after processing.
I did notice that the one client-side only one says they're working on building a storage app, which presumably, the client-side browser app will eventually be usable as their import tool.
I think it'll be pretty handy to have a list of tools like this. I personally want a little web app (selfhostable, obviously) that I can easily both store and browse my old exports.
Contact info summary is great. Something I'd love to have is exporting friends' birthdays into my calendar. That and contact info is really all I need from Facebook.
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I know they're not equivalent in any way, but some consideration for the audience might be expected given the general topic of the day.
Also fails if you disallow it from seeing your email address with a "someone is already using that email address" error.