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A Google engineering team started an internal 'organization' dedicated to this called the Data Liberation Front. They are working through all the Google products and will continue to update their site as new or improved methods for moving data in and out of their web applications are created.
The DLF sees themselves as being a bit subversive, because a ...
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The key is configuring your account to be accessible via IMAP.
I've used IMAPSize to backup GMail accounts. To schedule regular backups on a server I use OfflineIMAP.
Although a quick G search reveals tons of tools/scripts/services to do backup of IMAP servers and especially of GMail.
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Go to Google Reader.
Go to the Settings page.
Click on Folders and Tags.
Your starred items are private, you can make them public.
then you can access a public page which has a feed.
Look at the XML, almost all XML from Google Reader has something that looks like this:
<gr:continuation>CJyPg4L2wKIC</gr:continuation>
take that and add it to ...
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When you're in Google Plus, click the cog icon in the upper right corner of the screen.
Select Google+ settings
Go to Data liberation
Click Download your Circles and Contacts
From the Takeout menu at the top of the page, select Choose services
Click Contacts and Circles
Click Create Archive
Some magic will happen and then you'll be prompted to download ...
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Delicious provides a tool for exporting (as well as importing) your bookmarks in a format readable (and writable - for import) by most modern browsers.
Export
Import
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Lots of answers here, but YQL, although not google out of the box, the following query will help.
select title,url from search.web where query="pizza"
The RESTful URL for those results is:
...
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It's a bit hard, but a workaround that seems to do the trick:
Go to Google Maps - My places: http://maps.google.at/maps/myplaces
CREATE NEW MAP, name its title "Starred Items to export", set it to [x] Unlisted, Done
Click on My places again to get back to the places list, select Starred
For each starred item do the following:
Click on the starred item, ...
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After logging to Google Reader, you can download the last 1000 items of each feed using the url http://www.google.com/reader/atom/feed/[feed_address]?n=1000. If you need to archive more than 1000 items, you have to follow this procedure (the key word is "continuation parameter").
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As far as I am aware, there's no built in way to do this on Youtube.
You could of course use the Youtube API to easily get all of your playlists in xml using the following:
https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/[YOUR_USER_NAME]/playlists?v=2
Example:
https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/oisinorion/playlists?v=2
That xml file will have the ...
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Consider got-your-back which "is a command line tool that backs up and restores your Gmail account".
You can invoke it like this:
python gyb.py --email foo@bar.com --search "from:pip@pop.com" --folder "mail_from_pip"
After completion you'll find all the emails matching the --search in the specified --folder, along with a sqlite database.
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There is a good Google Chrome Extension to export Pandora Thumbs Up playlists to Spotify.
Once you have the playlists in Spotify, you can export it using the tips here:
http://www.spotify-forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=15
I'm sure you'll find other tools to export Spotify playlists.
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I have had success using IMAP Tools to backup other (non-Gmail) IMAP accounts. I used both imapdump.pl and IMAPToMbox.pl; they generate one text file per email or one text file per folder, respectively. Both commands allow specifying which IMAP folders (Gmail's tags) you want to back up.
This method suits me well, 'cause I can backup my account ...
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No implication about it - its going away. The post you reference also says that they will be provide tools to allow you to export your data. There's also people talking about building their own, eg this wave.
If you want to do something right now, I suggest using Ferry to export your waves to Google Docs and from there to wherever you want.
You also might ...
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Maybe there is something at Build Last.fm you could use?
Rather than screen scraping, they do have an api that you could use to pull your library among other functions.
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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)
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EDIT: I am updating this answer because as of 18 Jan 2012 Google has just announced that:
The standalone Contacts service now has the same interface and
features that are currently available in Contacts inside of Gmail.
Make sure you use the contacts view available from GMail and NOT the one at contacts.google.com which has not been updated by Google ...
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It is possible to transfer starred items. In the old account, go through your starred items, and share them. Log into your new account, and follow the old account's shared items. You can then star those in the new account. Takes some work, but it does work. I did this when I moved my Reader from my GMail account to Google Apps.
As far as I know, Trends is ...
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Well, after discovering that the starred locations are also mirrored on Google Bookmarks, I wrote a Python script to scrape the coordinates and generate a KML file:
Export Google Maps starred locations
Go to Google Bookmarks: https://www.google.com/bookmarks/
On the bottom left, click "Export bookmarks": ...
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I'm not sure that you can do this directly in Gmail. However, you could either selectively forward emails to an alternative account OR download your Gmail using POP3 to the Mozilla Thunderbird email client (which is available under Linux).
If you are filtering more than a handful of emails it would be easier to download your emails en masse using POP3 and ...
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See this: Blogger Help: Import and export blogs
To make a copy of your blog's posts and comments, you have to export your blog and then import it to another existing blog.
Export Your blog
To export your blog, simply click "Export Blog" from the Settings |
Other tab.
Then, click the Export Blog button. Your blog will be stored as a
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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 ...
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Unfortunately, any app that does this is shutdown because it's against the FB ToS. FB only allows fluff info like profile pic and general location, not the real info like emails and phone #s.
This was hotly debated at the beginning of 2008, when Plaxo tried to include this data in Plaxo Pulse.
Services like FriendCSV have all been shutdown since then.
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Facebook now lets you do this directly from their site.
(1) Go to "Account Settings"
(2) Click on "Learn More" in the "Download your information area.
(3) Press the "Download Button"
(4) It gives you a message about how it will take a while to package it all up for you. It will send you an e-mail when your download is ready to go.
That's all there is to ...
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This web app describes steps to achieve what you're looking for I think.
Update
It appears this addon was removed. It used to be called ArchiveFacebook, but I don't see it on the mozilla site anymore.
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The easiest way may be to use a local POP client like Outlook to download them. Then you can easily export or save them to text.
For an individual email, you could use Print to print the contents to a file on your machine... but that would get painful quickly for more than a few emails.
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I successfully used Got Your Back (GYB) to move 7 years of messages (with labels!) from a @gmail.com account to my new Google Apps account at my own domain. Here's how:
Backing up your old @gmail.com account
Download GYB and unzip it somewhere. (I'm on a Mac so I used the "Python Source" version, but if you're on Windows you'll need that version instead.)
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In the Google Knol: Changing your gmail username or email address, it says:
If you absolutely need the old label
structure, the only solution is to use
an IMAP client to connect to both the
old and new account and copy over
folders/labels. But this solution can
be tricky, because you can only copy
over a certain (unspecified) amount of
mail ...
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I access Gmail with a mail client which stores email in the maildir format. Maildir simply stores each email in its original RFC822 message format in a separate file. These are readable text files, although modern email is often cluttered with base64 encoded mail attachments.
There are multiple gnu/linux email clients which support maildir, including ...
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The only way to do this is
Export all as .txt (see: Export Gmail messages to text or HTML files)
Loop through all of it and grep "From: " lines in a seperate database.
Note: if you use imapsize (free) for step 1 then save the backups as "%FROM - The sender of the email" and you have them in plain sight in your directory.
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Tough one:
- This feature was repeatedly requested on Google's Forum, but no answer from Google
- On Google's Data Liberation Front there is only the import/export solution
- There is no official API, only reverse engineered ones for Python, C# or F# and I couldn't find any program built on these libraries that could do such a thing.
I hope somebody can ...
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