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Plexodus Tools -- data migration Originally shared by Filip H.F. “FiXato” Slagter Screenshots of the work-in-progress console frontend for Plexodus-Tools running in Termux on Android Spent some more time today working on the frontend for the Plexodus-Tools Bash scripts. So far I've tested it on #macOS El Capitan + #iTerm2 + #Homebrew, and #Android + #Termux, and Ubuntu GNU Linux via SSH, all running a recent version of #Bash Screenshots show the main menu, the settings menu, the Setup output, the self-update output, Takeout archive data file extraction, and URL extraction from the Takeout data files. All screenshots were taken from my Android phone. As mentioned in my previous #PlexodusTools update, installation instructions are available at https://github.com/FiXato/Plexodus-Tools/blob/master/README.md#installation-instructions Just a few more days left, before part of these scripts become useless... Still have some more archiving and data analysis to do myself too... #GooglePlus ...

Working with exported data Originally shared by Filip H.F. “FiXato” Slagter Progress on Takeout Google+ Stream Posts Export Tool I've been making some progress with the Google Data Takeout conversion part of my #PlexodusTools project. I can currently let one of the scripts parse all the JSON files in the extracted Takeout/Google+ Stream/Posts directory, and convert the JSON to simplified HTML files in an (imho) logical directory structure, based on what kind of posts it is, and what its privacy setting is: data/output/html/exported_activities/limited/communities/$communityID-$communityName/$userID data/output/html/exported_activities/limited/events/$eventID-$eventName/$userID data/output/html/exported_activities/limited/posts data/output/html/exported_activities/limited/posts/$userID/circles/$circleName data/output/html/exported_activities/limited/posts/$userID/collections/$collectionID-$collectionName data/output/html/exported_activities/limited/posts/$userID/users/$userId-$userN...

WOW Archiving G+ comments of Blogger Via Filip H.F. Slagter Originally shared by Filip H.F. “FiXato” Slagter Big PlexodusTools update for Blogger owners who had GooglePlus Comments widget enabled for their blog: My #PlexodusTools git repository at https://github.com/FiXato/Plexodus-Tools has had some big updates in the past week, specifically the https://github.com/FiXato/Plexodus-Tools/blob/master/README.md#google-comments-on-blogger-blogs-exporter section. The `bin/export_blogger_comments.sh` Bash script can be used to archive all #GPlus Comments for your #Blogger blog. It's basically a wrapper script around all the other scripts, and a way to collect all the retrieved data into a single JSON file. Note, most of these tools can also be used if you use Google+ Comments for Websites. Today's freshly committed code will not only request relevant JSON from the APIs, it will also combine it all into single structured JSON file per domain. Hurry up though, as the Bash scripts rel...

Via Filip H.F. Slagter Originally shared by Filip H.F. “FiXato” Slagter Blogger Google Plus Comments tool merged into Plexodus-Tools Just a quick development update: while progress has been rather low the past weeks as I've struggling with health issues again, I've finally merged the #GitHub #Gist ¹ I'd made for retrieving Google+-based comments on Blogger blogs, into the main #PlexodusTools ² git repository, along with its commit history. Still need to merge the Gist's README into the existing one from Plexodus-Tools, and update some of the documentation though, but at least all further development on it should occur in the Plexodus-Tools repo, rather than spread over both projects. I need to hurry up though for it to be of any use, as the APIs will be turned off in less than 18 days... Time passes by way too quickly... So, keep following https://github.com/FiXato/Plexodus-Tools/ to keep track of its progress. ¹: Blogger Google Plus Comments CLI retrieval tool Gist: h...

Blogger added notice regarding Google+ integrations to their admin panel Originally shared by Filip H.F. “FiXato” Slagter Blogger has finally added a notice to its control panel interface The text of the notice reads as follows: Following the announcement of Google+ API deprecation scheduled for March 2019, a number of changes will be made to Blogger’s Google+ integration on 4 February 2019.   Google+ widgets:  Support for the '+1 Button', 'Google+ Followers' and 'Google+ Badge' widgets in Layout will no longer be available. All instances of these widgets will be removed from your blog. +1 buttons:  The +1/G+ buttons and Google+ share links below blog posts and in the navigation bar will be removed. Please note that if you have a custom template that includes Google+ features, you may need to update your template. Please contact your template supplier for advice. Google+ Comments:  Support for Google+ comments will be turned down, and all blogs using Google+ com...

Originally shared by Filip H.F. “FiXato” Slagter Feedback provided regarding Google Takeout archive issues: Because I am still running into some issues with cropped filenames, even when exporting to a zip64 archive, I've filed two tickets through Google Feedback ( https://www.google.com/tools/feedback/reports?hl=en or rather the Send Feedback form on takeout.google.com ). I'm sharing them here to make them public record, so others are aware these issues can occur, and perhaps can also provide feedback to Google in case they're also affected. Regarding Contacts with periods in their name: When a Contact's (first?) name contains (ends with?) a period, the exported VCF tends to lack the .vcf file extension. For instance, I had a contact named: First name: 'wolf.' Last name: 'nanaki' The exported vcf however was named: "Takeout/Contacts/Chat4All/wolf.nanaki", no .vcf file extension at all. This makes exporting specific file types only from an arch...

Some notes regarding filenames in Takeout exports Originally shared by Filip H.F. “FiXato” Slagter Feedback provided regarding Google Takeout archive issues: Because I am still running into some issues with cropped filenames, even when exporting to a zip64 archive, I've filed two tickets through Google Feedback ( https://www.google.com/tools/feedback/reports?hl=en or rather the Send Feedback form on takeout.google.com ). I'm sharing them here to make them public record, so others are aware these issues can occur, and perhaps can also provide feedback to Google in case they're also affected. Regarding Contacts with periods in their name: When a Contact's (first?) name contains (ends with?) a period, the exported VCF tends to lack the .vcf file extension. For instance, I had a contact named: First name: 'wolf.' Last name: 'nanaki' The exported vcf however was named: "Takeout/Contacts/Chat4All/wolf.nanaki", no .vcf file extension at all. This mak...