A reminder: REQUEST JSON FORMAT for Google Data Takeout

Google HTML is absolutely worthless.

The instructions don't make this clear, but you're going to see this advice repeated repeatedly and repetitiously. With great frequency. Repeatedly.

REQUEST JSON FORMAT for Google Data Takeout

Why? Because the JSON format can be used by tools for extraction and import. Tim Berners-Lee is building one for Solid, there will be others.
https://github.com/solid/solid-takeout-import (not yet usable, but in process).

REQUEST JSON FORMAT for Google Data Takeout

Why? Because the JSON format contains additional, useful, and critical fields for extraction and import to other sites and tools.

REQUEST JSON FORMAT for Google Data Takeout

Why? Because Google's generated HTML is an ugly bastard stepchild of HTML that's not actually useful even as HTML.

REQUEST JSON FORMAT for Google Data Takeout

Why? Because you'll give yourself far more options and far fewer headaches down the road.

REQUEST JSON FORMAT for Google Data Takeout

Why? Because even if you can't make heads or tails of the output, the tools likely to be developed for intake to where you want the data to go will.

REQUEST JSON FORMAT for Google Data Takeout

Why? Because your friendly neighborhood hackers (and Space Alien Cats) can hack something together using 'jq' and 'awk' (or Python, Ruby, Perl, Go, ...) if all else fails.

REQUEST JSON FORMAT for Google Data Takeout

Why? Because it's what you actually want.

REQUEST JSON FORMAT for Google Data Takeout

REQUEST JSON FORMAT for Google Data Takeout

REQUEST JSON FORMAT for Google Data Takeout

PS: We now know the boyfriend's name: JSON.

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