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  • Google Takeout Adds Blogger, Google+ Pages

    Google Takeout Adds Blogger, Google+ Pages

    Google announced the other day that it has added Blogger and Google+ Pages to Google Takeout, meaning that users can more easily export their data out of these services if they would like to leave.

    Kári Ragnarsson from Google’s The Data Liberation Front wrote on the Data Liberation Front blog:

    Meet us at https://www.google.com/takeout, and together we will export each of your blogs as an Atom Xml file. Or, if you’ve enjoyed exporting data from your Google+ Stream and Google+ Circles through Takeout in the past, but are looking for something more, join us now and download html files with your posts and json files containing the circles for each Google+ Page you own. If you don’t want to rush into things, we can also just export a single blog or page of your choice. Either way, give us a try. Life will never be the same.

    A couple months ago, Google added some new features to Google Takeout, enabling users to maintain their original folder hierarchy when exporting files from Google Drive, and letting users pick a single resource within a service to download.

    “For instance, a single Picasa album or top-level folder from Drive – instead of exporting every single file,” Google explained at the time. “To try it out, go to the ‘Choose services’ tab and click on ‘Configure…’ once you’ve added a service that supports this.”

    Google also recently added Reader and Latitude data to the Google Takeout menu, and started letting users download all their YouTube videos together.

    Hat tip to The Verge

  • Google Adds Features To Google Takeout

    Google Adds Features To Google Takeout

    Google announced the addition of a couple features to its Google Takeout offering, which allows users to get their data out of Google’s various products.

    Now, users can maintain their original folder hierarchy when exporting files from Google Drive. “Gone are the days of looking at the contents of your zip file and wondering which “secret_plans” file is which,” says Nick Piepmeier of Google’s Data Liberation Front.

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    Additionally, users can pick a single resource within a service to download. “For instance, a single Picasa album or top-level folder from Drive – instead of exporting every single file,” explains Piepmier. “To try it out, go to the ‘Choose services’ tab and click on ‘Configure…’ once you’ve added a service that supports this.”

    The Drive-related features may become more important as Google pushes users of its various products to use it more for storage.

    Last month, Google added Reader and Latitude data to the Google Takeout menu. The company also recently started letting users download all their YouTube videos together from Takeout.

  • Google Adds Reader, Latitude To Google Takeout

    Google announced today that it has added a couple more products to the Google Takeout menu: Latitude and Reader.

    “We’re always working to improve our tools and make it easier for users to control and access their data,” Kári Ragnarsson writes on Google’s Data Liberation Front blog. “Today we are happy to add support for two new services in Google Takeout.”

    For Latitude, you can download a json file with your location data.

    With Google Reader, you could already export data from within Reader itself, but now you can also do it from Takeout by exporting an XML file of your subscriptions and your lists of starred, shared, following items in json format.

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    Google recently added the ability to download all our YouTube videos together from Google Takeout.

  • Google Lets You Download All Your YouTube Videos Together

    Google has just made it a hell of a lot easier to get all of your videos off of YouTube, should you choose to do so.

    In the past, users have been able to download individual videos using the Video Manager, but now Google is letting you grab your whole collection at once with Google Takeout.

    Google Takeout was launched in 2011 as an offering from Google’s Data Liberation Front. Basically, it allows you to grab your data out of multiple Google products, in case you want to switch to another service, or simply don’t want to use those products any longer.

    Google will only let you take out your original videos from YouTube. Don’t expect to be able to do this with all of your favorites, playlists, etc.

    “With Google Takeout, you can download all of the original videos that you have uploaded in a few simple clicks,” says YouTube engineer Brian Hawkins. “No transcoding or transformation — you’ll get exactly the same videos that you first uploaded. Your videos in. Your videos out.”

  • Google Voice Added to Google Takeout

    Google has added Google Voice to its menu of services that it lets you remove your data from – otherwise known as Google Takeout.

    Google Takeout itself was announced in June as an extension of the Data Liberation Front, which dubbed the service its “first revolutionary product”.

    “This means that all of the data associated with your Google Voice account, from your call history to voicemail messages, greetings and call recordings, is now available for download,” explains Google software engineer Anthony Jawad. “Voicemail messages and greetings are exported as mp3s, text messages as microformatted html, and forwarding phone numbers as a card.”

    Other services that allow you to retrieve data using Google Takeout include: Google Buzz, Contacts and Circles, Picasa Web Albums, +1s, Stream and your Google Profile.