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Oct 12 at 19:50 comment added Daniel Martin In 2024, this no longer works for me; however, a variant did; posting as another answer.
May 17, 2022 at 12:41 comment added Ryan Coming back to this answer today to +1 and confirm that all of my wget Takeout downloads worked in WSL Ubuntu (after I set my power settings to stay awake permanently). Thanks for the tip.
May 16, 2022 at 23:08 comment added Ryan @daco Thanks so much for the tip!! I will try cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/install-sdk#deb and stackoverflow.com/a/71119171/470749
May 16, 2022 at 22:25 comment added daco @Ryan :) by the way, I just remembered this is what I used unix.stackexchange.com/a/557109and it could be interesting for you. Is from this question unix.stackexchange.com/questions/557102/…
May 16, 2022 at 22:22 comment added daco By the way, if you have the free legacy Google suite and want to take a takeout of all your data (and that of your Users) ist it easier to use gcloud. The Trick is to activate 2 factor auth for the admin User. If this is not activated the option is not available.
May 16, 2022 at 22:16 comment added daco @Ryan I’m happy it worked for you. If you saved your file as “customname”, you just have to rename it to the name you want plus the right extension. For example if you chose a zip file as the export option, rename “customfile” to “newName.zip”. With screen and whet on a computer which was always in (No suspend options in energize settings) and connected to internet by cable (not by wifi) I downloaded around 170gb without problem. I tried the same using Firefox and safari on a MacBook and a Linux laptop without success.
May 16, 2022 at 22:07 comment added Ryan And would retries be a useful option? unix.stackexchange.com/a/227666/48973
May 16, 2022 at 22:06 comment added Ryan Thanks for this idea. What makes you believe that wget is more stable than a browser? I'm hopeful you're right, because my Google Takeout downloads in Brave keep failing, and then Google annoyingly expires the entire export after a certain number of attempts. Also, what is the benefit of setting timeouts, and what would you recommend? Thanks. @daco thanks for the suggestion because wget wasn't working when I just supplied the (really long) URL. I didn't realize that you meant "customname" as a placeholder, so I think my file is being saved as "customname".
Apr 2, 2022 at 8:52 comment added daco I would also add the use of wget this way wget -O customname "url" as wget, in my case, did not use the file name and just part of the url as the filename (which makes it hard to identify which file is which).
Apr 2, 2022 at 8:47 comment added daco Thanks! As of 04/2022 this still works. :) I would recommend using screen if you are using wget on a remote server through ssh.
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