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View submission: Urgent help needed: Downloading Google Takeout data before expiration
From a purely theoretical perspective, couldn't you rent a VPS (virtual private server) or an Azure/AWS/GCP VM, install an OS with a graphical interface, log into your google account then download it from there?
Comment by Pretend_Compliant at 12/10/2024 at 05:02 UTC
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I have no idea. But I'm totally willing to try this if you think it might work. It seems like Google is throttling the downloads at the account level (like some aggregated total bandwidth allowance), but the guy who wrote this script was able to have them all download in parallel in some insanely short time. Would what you are talking about potentially allow that?