Finalize (or start!!!) your archives now!!!
Google's been telling folks to start their final archives by March 31. It's now April 1 for most of you.
For Google Data Takeout
Go to:
https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout/custom/circles,plus_communities,plus_one,plus_pages,profile,stream
For EACH item, click on the data format specifier (it will read "HTML" in most cases) and set that to "JSON" wherever possible. You've got to to this within each data category ("product" in Google's terminology), sometimes multiple times (for Streams and Profile). Your Streams data is the most important.
If you have one or more Google Pages you'll need to log into that account separately both to *request and to download your archive(s).
Next select the file format and file chunk size. You can leave both of these alone, though Mac, Linux, and BSD users might prefer tarfiles "tgz" for easier manipulation of the archive. If you don't understand what this means, leave the defaults.
Select the delivery option. If you didn't post a massive number of photographs and have ample space in your Google Drive, select Google Drive for delivery. It'll save you having to download a large archive within the next five days. Otherwise, "email notice" is the default, but you'll need to download the archive after it's complete.
(DropBox, Microsoft OneDrive, and Box are other options, if you use these services.)
If your archive or download of it fails, you'll need to start over again.
We'll have more information on processing archives later at https://reddit.com/r/plexodus so please subscribe there, you'll need a Reddit account.
For Friends+Me Google+ Exporter
Go to: https://gplus-exporter.friendsplus.me/
Download the Google+ Exporter for your operating system (desktop systems only, no Mobile support).
Follow the standard installation process for your operating system.
Launch the app.
You should see a window requesting your Google account information. The authentication information is only used locally, it is not transmitted anywhere other than Google itself.
You'll see a listing of "feeds" you can archive either individually or all at once. Depending on how many feeds and how much data is in them, you might want to run them all, or select one at a time to run. (There's no option to select a subset of multiple feeds and run them all at once.)
The download grabs just text by default, you can pull in images after completing archival runs, from the buttons at the top of the application.
You can export your data in JSON format, or in formats suitable for uploading to Wordpress or Blogger.
The UI is pretty self-explanatory.
Again, there will be ongoing support at https://reddit.com/r/plexodus (as well as a related F+MGE support forum). Please subscribe to that if you can.
Which method should you use?
Google Data Takeout should preserve all of your posts, comments, photos, videos, and other information. It does not capture full Community archives, and cannot archive private community content at all. Nor can it archive third-party profiles.
Friends+Me Google+ Exporter can archive just text, for much smaller archives, can update existing archives, can archive both public and private communities of posts and comments, and can archive other profiles if you choose. It may miss some content due to its web-scraping method (though has been quite comprehensive), and must run on a desktop with an ongoing data connection to Google+.
It may be possible to run a Google Data Takeout after April 2, based on some information out of Google, though that's very unclear. F+MGE might also be able to read content for some time after April 2. In both cases, you should assume that this won't be the case, and start your final archive AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
https://gplus-exporter.friendsplus.me/
Google's been telling folks to start their final archives by March 31. It's now April 1 for most of you.
For Google Data Takeout
Go to:
https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout/custom/circles,plus_communities,plus_one,plus_pages,profile,stream
For EACH item, click on the data format specifier (it will read "HTML" in most cases) and set that to "JSON" wherever possible. You've got to to this within each data category ("product" in Google's terminology), sometimes multiple times (for Streams and Profile). Your Streams data is the most important.
If you have one or more Google Pages you'll need to log into that account separately both to *request and to download your archive(s).
Next select the file format and file chunk size. You can leave both of these alone, though Mac, Linux, and BSD users might prefer tarfiles "tgz" for easier manipulation of the archive. If you don't understand what this means, leave the defaults.
Select the delivery option. If you didn't post a massive number of photographs and have ample space in your Google Drive, select Google Drive for delivery. It'll save you having to download a large archive within the next five days. Otherwise, "email notice" is the default, but you'll need to download the archive after it's complete.
(DropBox, Microsoft OneDrive, and Box are other options, if you use these services.)
If your archive or download of it fails, you'll need to start over again.
We'll have more information on processing archives later at https://reddit.com/r/plexodus so please subscribe there, you'll need a Reddit account.
For Friends+Me Google+ Exporter
Go to: https://gplus-exporter.friendsplus.me/
Download the Google+ Exporter for your operating system (desktop systems only, no Mobile support).
Follow the standard installation process for your operating system.
Launch the app.
You should see a window requesting your Google account information. The authentication information is only used locally, it is not transmitted anywhere other than Google itself.
You'll see a listing of "feeds" you can archive either individually or all at once. Depending on how many feeds and how much data is in them, you might want to run them all, or select one at a time to run. (There's no option to select a subset of multiple feeds and run them all at once.)
The download grabs just text by default, you can pull in images after completing archival runs, from the buttons at the top of the application.
You can export your data in JSON format, or in formats suitable for uploading to Wordpress or Blogger.
The UI is pretty self-explanatory.
Again, there will be ongoing support at https://reddit.com/r/plexodus (as well as a related F+MGE support forum). Please subscribe to that if you can.
Which method should you use?
Google Data Takeout should preserve all of your posts, comments, photos, videos, and other information. It does not capture full Community archives, and cannot archive private community content at all. Nor can it archive third-party profiles.
Friends+Me Google+ Exporter can archive just text, for much smaller archives, can update existing archives, can archive both public and private communities of posts and comments, and can archive other profiles if you choose. It may miss some content due to its web-scraping method (though has been quite comprehensive), and must run on a desktop with an ongoing data connection to Google+.
It may be possible to run a Google Data Takeout after April 2, based on some information out of Google, though that's very unclear. F+MGE might also be able to read content for some time after April 2. In both cases, you should assume that this won't be the case, and start your final archive AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
https://gplus-exporter.friendsplus.me/
Wayne Johnson You've been spamming that on numerous posts and been warned by other mods. Please don't do that.
ReplyDeleteYou've been banned.
I'm always getting an error from the Communities and Stream takeout:
ReplyDelete"We weren't able to fetch all the data you requested. The list below highlights the services that had problems. You can still download this archive, but please be aware that there will be data missing. Inside your archive you will find an index.html file that will have more details about the errors."
I've tried HTML and JSON in 50Gb parts, which actually generated 5 10GB files instead of 1 50GB (my files were just a bit smaller than 50GB according to the takeout).
I've even tried takeout of Communities and Stream separately, in 2GB JSON. It created 24 zip files for stream and 1 zip for Communities. But both got the same alert error as above.
Any ideas? Btw, has anyone managed to create 50GB zip/tgz files?
Jessica Meyer I've done a couple of zip files, but they were < 1 GB. I don't do a lot of images.
ReplyDeleteKeep retrying, consider the Friends+Me Google+ Exporter (if you haven't already used it), and file feedback with Google.
There's an off chance that the data window will be pushed back, so keep your fingers crossed.
I'm sending feedback based on your comment now.
Edward Morbius I don't even know what exactly is in the files as they are on my Drive. It was actually practical to not have 1 50GB file, but I am afraid of how they have divided the content. Anyway, I am trying to takeout Communities in HTML now (less than 1 GB) to see if I still get the error.
ReplyDeleteI have just helped a friend with her takeout and she also got the same error for her Stream (she had no Communities, so no error there). Her takeout was 1 zip file around 5GB HMTL. She's trying in JSON now to see if the error repeats.
I've tried to use the Google+ Exporter, but I am getting an error on Ubuntu 14. The 1st time it ran it opened a window and asked if I wanted to connect to my Google+, I confirmed and after that the window closed and nothing happened (the process was still running). I killed the processes and tried running via command line and nothing happens anymore and I get these errors:
/tmp/.mount_Googleho6zxd/google-plus-exporter: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3: no version information available (required by /tmp/.mount_Googleho6zxd/google-plus-exporter)
/tmp/.mount_Googleho6zxd/google-plus-exporter: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3: no version information available (required by /tmp/.mount_Googleho6zxd/google-plus-exporter)
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/fonts.conf", line 86: unknown element "blank"
If Google give us more time, I might try it on Windows.. argh.
Omg thanks
ReplyDeleteI think my second takeout that I requested yesterday was mistakenly left as HTML :facepalm:
Turned out with lots of missing stuff at around 2/3 the size of the first takeout
Good news! Google+ Exporter is working on my other (older) computer which runs Ubuntu 16.04 =) I have already imported a small collection of mine into Blogger and it worked perfectly! If tomorrow Google+ is still up I'll go premium and download everything as Blogger and JSON!
ReplyDeleteHere's how my blog is looking with the imported data from Google+:
jessymeyer.blogspot.com - Jessica Meyer
Jessica Meyer W00t!
ReplyDelete