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FWIW Originally shared by Lars Fosdal First post in a series, on how to capture and export your Google+ content. An upcoming post will deal with how to transform and import that content onto a new platform. Time is ticking and the deadline for exporting is looming closer every day. The current word is that some of the G+ APIs will disappear already at the end of January, while the service itself will shut down at end of March. https://larsfosdal.blog/2018/12/22/moving-away-from-google/ https://larsfosdal.blog/2018/12/22/moving-away-from-google/

Regarding grabbing images from Google (such those linked in the G+Exporter files) Are there known tools around that can mass download images from URLs without triggering any kind of throttling or denial from Google's servers?

FYI Originally shared by Lars Fosdal After some initial skepticism, I finally tried this tool - and - I am sold. This tool can export in a well documented JSON format, as well as in WordPress eXtended RSS (WXR=XML). It can grab your profile posts, pages, collections, and communities, both posts and comments. If you have a WordPress site, you can directly import all your G+ posts from the latter. Note that the export tool does not download the images, but the WP importer can do that for you. The following appears to not be included - +1's but those are hardly relevant after you migrate content. So - if you want to grab your G+ content, don't waste your time on Google Takeout, as that is a total mess. This is hands down the best G+ export tool I've tried so far. https://blog.friendsplus.me/export-google-plus-feeds-45926c925891 Json Format: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gOYJe61sI1GbO9qpFZJtwY3vdsZalsxtPgUnB2cvzAw/edit WXR https://devtidbits.com/2011/03/16/the-wordpr...