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Google Takeout Sucks

Google Takeout allows you to generate zip files of your google data. The problem is that it will generate hundreds of zip files of your data, all with this information loosely connected

I made this script to download all of my google photos so I can back it up onto a harddrive

Before you begin, export all of your google photos to google drive using Google Takeout

Setup

1. Follow the quickstart to setup the google cloud project. This is needed so you can generate a token via Oauth2 with Google. Store the credentials.json file at root level. Skip the part of setting up a golang project. Ensure the following scopes are included https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.readonly https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.metadata.readonly

2. Copy the directory ID of the google takeout folder in google drive. This can be found in the URL when viewing the Takeout folder in google drive. drive.google.com/drive/folders/{really long id....}

3. Run the download script with go run cmd/download/main.go -directoryId=abc123. By default, dryRun is set to true. You should see your files appear in the console

Logs

Error and info logs are written to a file and stored in tmp/*.log when running a script

Downloading all of my Google Takeout files

Run the following command locally after setting up the project. When you are confident everything is setup correctly, set dryRun to false.

go run cmd/download/*.go -directoryId={GoogleTakeout Directory ID} -dryRun=true -outDir={/absolute/path/to/destination/directory}

Unzipping all of my Google Takeout files

After downloading all of your files, you can unzip them all. When you are confident everything is setup correctly, set dryRun to false.

go run cmd/unzip/*.go -source=/absolute/path/to/directory/with/zipfiles -out=/absolute/path/for/unizpped/files -dryRun=true