As Google is planning to sunset Google+ by April 2019, you need to make a backup right now or you’ll forget!
I have written a little tool to help me browse my Google+ archive using Emacs. I posted over 2000 times on Google+, and left even more comments. Browsing speed is essential.
In addition to just browsing, I also want to copy *some* of these to my blog. They all need some editing before I do that, however: links need to be checked and fixed, tags need to be added, and so on.
Here’s how to get started: get a copy of my Google+ Stream archive from Google Takeout:
1. *select specific data* and pick *Posts*
2. change the format from HTML to JSON
This is what it should look like:
Download the archive when it’s ready and unpack it.
For Emacs, you need the following:
As you can see, the archive contains my posts and all the comments people left on it.
I’m happy to answer any questions or help you adapt the code to your own platform.
Also, remember that if your target platform is Wordpress or Blogger, you can always use Friends+Me to handle 3000 posts or less, or pay $20...
Anyway, expect to see some old, backdated posts pop up on this wiki as I work through my list.
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