Is there a way to export starred items from Google Reader?

Question

I am familiar with exporting/importing RSS feeds, however I would like some way to backup the thousands of starred items that I have collected in Google Reader.

I don't even necessarily need to be able to export the "blurb" contained with the starred item (although that would be nice), as long as I am able to pull the URL.

How can I do this?

Answer 1

1. Go to Google Reader.
2. Go to the Settings page.
3. Click on Folders and Tags.
4. Your starred items are private, you can make them public.
5. then you can access a public page which has a feed.

6. Look at the XML, almost all XML from Google Reader has something that looks like this:

   <gr:continuation>CJyPg4L2wKIC</gr:continuation>

7. take that and add it to the end of the RSS URL like so ?c=CJyPg4L2wKIC, it will allow you to paginate through your starred articles.

Answer 2

You need to go to Google Takeout (https://www.google.com/takeout) and select Google Reader and do an export.

The zipped file you download contains a fairly comprehensive export of your Google Reader settings:

• followers.json
• following.json
• liked.json
• notes.json
• shared-by-followers.json
• shared.json
• starred.json
• subscriptions.xml (an OPML file)

Answer 3

Google Reader now also supports extra export options. If you go to Reader Settings and then the Import/Export tab, you'll see links that let you download items you've starred in a couple JSON-based formats.

They aren't terribly readable by themselves, although you can figure out where links are with a simple text editor, but if you have another RSS program that's able to read it, you should be able to view the exports that way.

Answer 4

This is one way to do it http://www.rimmkaufman.com/rkgblog/2008/09/19/google-reader-export-starred-posts/ it does look to be a bit ugly and not straightforward though.

Answer 5

This MIGHT work for you...

Load your STARRED items in Google Reader. Copy the URL, like so:

https://www.google.com/reader/view/#stream/user%2F14791004...804797%2Fstate%2Fcom.google%2Fstarred

Change the bolded portion to read atom, like so:

https://www.google.com/reader/atom/user%2F1479100...804797%2Fstate%2Fcom.google%2Fstarred

Load that up and see if it works out.

NOTE: That link won't work for anyone and this solution will only work if you have an active login session with Google Reader.

Answer 6

I share while starring them. Then I use the RSS feed to import the feeds into an external RSS reader like Outlook.

Answer 7

I made a ruby script that exports the link of each starred items to a txt file and an html file (to import as bookmarks).

You can get it here