Hello everyone
I just visited Google TakeOut and selected all my g+ content for Download.
Circles come as vcards
Posts, +1, and comments come at HTML. I will try to import to my website and write a tutorial if it works..
All boils down to how messy is html and what kind of metadata is or isn't injected
I just visited Google TakeOut and selected all my g+ content for Download.
Circles come as vcards
Posts, +1, and comments come at HTML. I will try to import to my website and write a tutorial if it works..
All boils down to how messy is html and what kind of metadata is or isn't injected
Probably not, but I can see what scripts could be written to clean up HTML to make it useful on our own websites.
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ReplyDeleteSounds interesting.
ReplyDeleteMy first attempt got maybe 10% of my posts. Only 2018 came through; there were 4 posts from 2011-2017. Haven't looked at my second attempt yet, where I selected only Stream. Going through what I did get... what a mess.
ReplyDeleteOn my first attempt both the Google+ Stream and Google+ comments failed. Trying to make another archive now
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ReplyDeleteEXPORT YOUR CONTENT IN JSON FORMAT, NOT HTML
ReplyDeleteIt is vastly easier to deal with afterwards.
Karin Curran Greg Mcverry I had problems with partial archives in the past. Report those as bugs via "send feedback".
ReplyDeleteI need to write a Take Out explainer.....
ReplyDeleteEdward Morbius yes but I want to then host it on my website as html. Not sure everyone will have the ability to do that with Json
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ReplyDeleteGreat work, brave pioneer Greg Mcverry !
ReplyDeleteNext question (per thread below): can a fresh G Suite implementation of G+ import user data in this format?
If not, it would be trivial for Google to enable such a thing.
Lev Osherovich trivial to implement but legally murky if you mean G suite for schools. If you mean buying a g suite account $10 per user maybe...but you would have network of one.
ReplyDeleteGreg Mcverry there is possibly a path to free G Suite access for well-motivated users... working on it...
ReplyDeleteGreg Mcverry It's easier to conveet the JSON to HTML than to make sane HTML out of Google+'s crud, seriously.
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ReplyDeletethe HTML option is only suitable for a quick and dirty personal archive to quickly review content yourself.
ReplyDeleteIf you want to republish or do anything more advanced with the data, you need the JSON-formatted data, with all its metadata...
Potentially with additional lookups for missing data through the Google+ API.
ReplyDeleteAlso, when republishing your content, be sure to review your audience data on your posts, so you don't accidentally make content that was meant only for specific people, public to all.
Yeah and importing WordPress will probably be easier as well, with JSON. thx
ReplyDeleteHTML is really messy. They should support exporting to Json.
ReplyDeleteJungshik Shin They do. Select it when requesting your takeout.
ReplyDeleteGreat ! Wrote my comment without reading the whole thread. Thanks ! Edward Morbius
ReplyDeleteThey did a very poor job with buzz take out. Good to hear that things got much better.
I got an error message that said some of the material I asked to download couldn't be archived for some reason. But it certainly tried to get the rest of it!
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