Convert exported facebook JSON data to UTF-8 encoded

facebook-convert.py

#!/usr/bin/python3

# Convert all JSON files inside directory `facebook`:
# $ fd --extension=json . facebook -x ./facebook-convert.py

import json
import sys


def parse(obj):
    if isinstance(obj, str):
        return obj.encode('latin_1').decode('utf-8')
    elif isinstance(obj, dict):
        return {k: parse(v) for k, v in obj.items()}
    elif isinstance(obj, list):
        return [parse(x) for x in obj]
    else:
        return obj


if __name__ == '__main__':
    fin = sys.argv[1]
    orig = json.loads(open(fin).read())
    parsed = parse(orig)
    pp = json.dumps(parsed, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False)
    open(fin, 'wb').write(pp.encode('utf-8'))